hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D<p>we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this.<p>anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
You lure me in to answer job related questions and then you force me to leave my name, email,... to see my matches. I know it's a common tactic but it sure is an annoying one. It's a job search tool, unless I apply for a job there is no need for that info.
In contrast to some other posters, I love the design. Vaguely reminded of the Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog box art [1]. I'm all for colorful geometric shapes.<p>What I don't like is the same thing I see everywhere else. There's this implicit assumption that nearly everything will be on the web. [2] I don't want frontend or backend jobs. I want to move away from the web. I'm tired of the web. I want to do something else.<p>Like, I get it. That's where ninety-something percent of the jobs are. But I would love if, as an industry, we took a step back from that.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.boxequalsart.com/sonic-1-md-jp-big.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.boxequalsart.com/sonic-1-md-jp-big.jpg</a><p>[2] With token acknowledgement of games and embedded
Platform definitly looks cool, if I was in the mood for hunting for those kinds of jobs.<p>But a bit off-topic, anyone know any platforms that are doing the opposite? Meaning, I'd like to avoid companies who just raised more money (or have VC investments at all actually), avoid companies that are growing the headcount crazy fast and so on.<p>Is there anything that is like the opposite of Maasive?
It would be hard to overstate how much I dislike the design, and (more objectively) I think it's working against you.<p>I know the 90s are cool right now, but "Saved By the Bell intro" theme doesn't confer a lot of confidence in the product.<p>There's also a lot of low-contrast text (black text on purple background), bizarrely wide fonts, buttons/CTAs that don't look clickable at first glance, cards and pills that <i>do</i> look clickable but aren't, and distracting animations.<p>I've now spent at least 60 seconds on the page and still haven't actually absorbed any information because it's so busy and distracting. I badly want to close it as soon as I start skimming it.<p>The design is serving itself (and the designer), not whatever message you are trying to communicate.<p>Remember that with hipster-y, polarizing designs, you're filtering out some audience. You may hope it's an audience you don't need or don't care about, but sometimes that's not the case, and you'll never know because they'll just look like anonymous bounces.
First impression: a quickly thrown together clone of Otta.<p>Your site presented me with a few generic role/stack questions, nothing about the nature of the company, business or market I'm interested in.<p>I answered the questions and signed up with a throw-away address I've since deleted.<p>The site froze after showing me 4 of the 10 matches. Of those 4, none of them met the minimum salary I specified and one didn't match the region. None were the kind of startup I'd consider working at.<p>Overall very unimpressed.<p>My curiosity about this space is the only reason I wouldn't consider this a total waste of time. You've given me another data point but unless you make your matching much better you'll remain in the dozens of no-code "build your own job site" things you can find on youtube. A post or video on how you built this could get you some views but I would never seriously use this for an actual job search.
Under "what do you do for work", I found only dev related roles - I am looking for PM roles. Since I didn't find it, I clicked on the link that took me to the typeform page. Here it states that you are looking for "passionate engineers, designers, and PM's" - but I could not find the option to select PM as a role in the previous page - I have now registered but hoping you can let me know if you are able to provide PM related roles.<p>Loved the UI though - Didn't feel clunky like AngelList and was fast too.
Great first start! Some feedback, if someone states a salary expectation then I wouldn't suggest 10 matches that are more than 50% lower. Maybe just let them know you don't have a great fit right now.<p>There is a lot of money to be made here so great idea and keep up the good work!
<i>can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks?</i><p>Why sure -- because you employed a dark pattern, namely enticing us with a link to "explore jobs" that ended up requiring us to create an account (which as you understand very well is a significant turn-off and cognitive burden to people just casually browsing your site). If you want people to sign up before getting to the "goods" of your site -- just be up front about it, and make it a requirement at the very first step after they click on the link for any of the protected resources.<p>Until you do -- your tool will continue to truly, irrevocably suck. :D
Why does the UI look like it's advertising cereal to me? I see this design pattern sprouting up frequently, and I hate it. It almost screams "hey! we're trying to be hip! Look at us! Weeeeeeeee!"
After a bunch of data entry...<p>> Create an account to see your matches<p>I'm not actively looking for a job so this is annoying and where I stopped. Show me something of value then ask.
It just crashes after finishing onaboarding trying to load with:<p>TypeError: can't access property "push", Mo['ex-Unicorn Founder'] is undefined
your onboarding flow is really really annoying, asking for too much info before showing anything useful. Well, now you have another "Blah Blah" among your users :)