The biggest problem I have with this is that it attaches you to your friend's profile and whatever he does online. So, for example, what if a buddy of mine posts that he just smoked a joint, and then he endorses me for a job. Unfortunately most employers will likely draw certain conclusions from that, "He hangs out with those kinds of people? I'm not hiring him." It could be much subtler, like your friend posts "I love Bob Marley."
As everyone has said, good idea, but I see one big pitfall.<p>Don't become LinkedIn's "endorsement" system. I'm not an employer, but I think it has ended up losing it's meaning (people just endorse each other willy nilly or a scratch-my-back-and-I-will-scratch-yours kind of thing) -<p>I'm thinking one way to escape this whole is finding a way to enforce/emphasize talking up friends that you have personally WORKED with for extended periods of time, to get more honesty
Having been to the HN London and heard the talk from Makeshift, I hope this doesn't disappear in 3 months! As a dev in London looking for a job, i'll give it a go. Good luck.
I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
This is really a great idea. It has the potential to offer a practical end-run around recruiters for potential employees in this situation.<p>As an employer, I'd love to be able to sign up and have your system DM me any time there's someone in my area looking for a job. Heck I'd even pay a small fee for the service!
Great idea, pretty site.<p>Very minor concern: I see "Hu" instead of "Hi" in 'Hire', because of the script. I didn't see it on first glance, but when I navigated to the demo profile I did, and now I see the U shape much more strongly than the I or R, and it's bugging me. :)
It would be great if profiles could be searchable through the three hashtags one can use on the profile. That way one would not necessarily only rely on sending an email, but would always be available to the pool of hiremyfriend users who are looking for growth hackers or ruby devs, etc.
Interesting approach to a real problem.<p>Talking out of my arse but could you use the list of "friends" to get a rough idea of who the candidate is? Amongst a given set of friends there may only be one Rubyist with JavaScript and Karate skills...
I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
btw not sure if anyone spotted it, but we came up with a high-tech solution for keeping out recruiter spam (god forbid this turns into the LRUG mailing list…). What do you reckon?<p><a href="http://c.jon.gd/image/1u013o34073u" rel="nofollow">http://c.jon.gd/image/1u013o34073u</a>