Show HN: Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups

Hi there I&#x27;m Gordon and I am a software engineer! I have worked in the startup space for the 4 past years in London and San Francisco. Over this time I, like many others, have experienced the way in which the world of tech recruiting works. I have grown frustrated by the number of times I have been contacted about roles not suited to me and how recruiters regularly pitch me roles based on technologies I used in previous employment. I have also experienced recruitment from the employers point of view where I had to build a team out in San Francisco which was equally frustrating.<p>I believe the systems that we employ to help us find a job&#x2F;recruit falls short of our expectations and is in need of some desperate rejuvenation and optimisation!<p>5 months ago I arrived back from San Francisco and teamed with 2 former colleagues who shared a passion in trying to improve this experience for both developers and hirers. I would like to invite you to be one of the first people to see and use Workshape.io - a talent matching service for Startups.<p>The key premise to Workshape.io is that we are a matching service that focuses on what you want to do in your next role - more specifically: what tech you want to work with and how you want to spend your time as a developer. We feel when you are open to another role your aspirations should be recognised as one of the key components to matching you to a role. We are focussed on rolling out in London right now and currently have roles from companies such as Shazam, Spotify, Qubit and Moo.com online.<p>We are very early stage right now and would really welcome your feedback on the experience, thoughts on the site and how we match you to roles.<p>Thank you for your time

How does Github alone determine a good match? If I don&#x27;t have much on my Github, I&#x27;m ineligible?

Bug report: I tried to sign up (great landing page BTW - I think you pull off the flashy design) but when I clicked the &quot;authorise&quot; button from GitHub, I got dropped into JSON at <a href="http://www.workshape.io/api/0/session/connect/github/callback?&lt;big" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.workshape.io&#x2F;api&#x2F;0&#x2F;session&#x2F;connect&#x2F;github&#x2F;callbac...</a> qeury params&gt; (Not sure if its unsafe to post the whole URL. I cannot web).<p>Here&#x27;s the JSON {&quot;name&quot;:&quot;RqlDriverError&quot;,&quot;msg&quot;:&quot;Object field &#x27;id&#x27; may not be undefined&quot;,&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Object field &#x27;id&#x27; may not be undefined&quot;}

I&#x27;ve been looking for something that&#x27;s both useful for me personally to check out the current work available and that works as an employer. I think this is it.<p>It&#x27;s <i>incredibly</i> difficult as an employer to convey exactly what the job will involve. Unless you&#x27;re hiring a direct replacement of somebody you likely won&#x27;t know what it is they&#x27;ll be working on. Equally, as a developer, it&#x27;s easy to see a job spec as a pack of lies, which they often are, and it can be hard to break into a slightly different role. A recruiter&#x27;s aim is to fill the jobs their clients are paying them to fill and not to advance careers of candidates. I believe this [will] solve the problems in the current recruitment industry from the perspective of both invested parties.<p>I fully expect this to stir the waters of technical recruitment, so best of luck to you both.

I have nothing bad to say about this.<p>Does it take into account relationships between tags? Like if someone puts in CSS3 will it put CSS in the listing?<p>Is there going to be a &quot;questions&quot; section? :P

This seems really interesting, unfortunately nobody seem to be looking for a starlord willing to take over the universe.<p>How would this work for companies looking for candidates? I saw no search or nothing. Companies signup a different kind of account?<p>Do you have plans to integrate topcoder, hackerrank etc? Will you be emailing users when you add new stuff? I regularly signup to services to test out them, but then immediately forget them as I get no reminders of new stuff or reminders about the existence of said service.

Nice idea and really well executed. I run <a href="http://www.zonino.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zonino.co.uk</a> with a couple of other chaps and we think similarly about the need to bypass recruiters. Get in touch if you&#x27;d like to have a chat about the wild London startup scene!

Awesome idea. I like the concept of balancing the qualities you want and do not want in a position. It&#x27;s a great step up from simple keywords.<p>Thus, I was bummed after I signed up and discovered it is basically for matching developers with <i>web</i> startups. :(

No matches so far (I got more on tinder, lol), but extremaly useful, well done. Altough it would be nice if one could also explore offers that don fit him perfectly, especially when there&#x27;s no others. It always good to know what market needs.

This is slick. The one thing I&#x27;d suggest is that you add percentage labels to the sliders.<p>That being said, I was mostly guessing the ratios for those 10 segments and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I was off by 20-40% for some of them.

great idea, love that it solves a problem so many in the tech industry seem to have finding the right people<p>think the design of the homepage, interface, and signup are all very slick<p>feel like it runs aground slightly if there are no matches, and as I had no matches, can&#x27;t really comment on the end goal &#x2F; application experience<p>otherwise good work, pretty interested to see where this goes, good luck!

Really slick set-up, novel but so intuitive - Great work.

I am getting an issue. I have entered the &quot;job description&quot; but showing empty and shows my profile is not complete.

Looks kind of interesting but I wasn&#x27;t able to view any matches or any close positions, so it&#x27;s hard to judge.

I really like the simplicity of this- it does what it says on the tin. Nice, neat and simple!

Just get a page with empty brackets after authorizing on GitHub: &quot; {} &quot;

cool concept, the very best of luck growing it and getting more employers and employees on board.

Great concept

Great concept

Like.