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Show HN: CodeBlimp – Code Interviews Without Limits
- dominotw 10y agoIt would be nice to have a video demo of it on the homepage. I would like to get a high level overview without having to try it out myself. Do people ask interviewees to code a node.js website during phone screens. I was under the impression that its usually 'palindrome test' kind of a deal.
- munirusman 10y agoCo-founder here. Thanks for the suggestion. Interviews for full-stack developer is a better use-case for this. For 'palindrome test' type interviews, we have https://www.remoteinterview.io/features-interview https://www.remoteinterview.io/features-interview
- askyourmother 10y agoA great idea for those who have no idea how to hire people!
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- ahmedm 10y agovery cool.. now i don’t have to setup a VM on my machine. quick question: do you ever delete these machines?
- munirusman 10y agoCo-founder here. We don't delete but we suspend them if they are inactive for long. They are restored when you access them again. Though you have an option to delete machines.
- Teeboo 10y agoGreat looking landing page, the clarity on the images is particularly good and and it loaded super-fast here in the UK. The service looks really good too. Good luck gaining traction :-)
- munirusman 10y agoThanks Teeboo!
- reikonomusha 10y agoHopefully this question isn't so out of line, but why is this service and services like coderpad.io so expensive for simple interviews? With coderpad, $50/month for at most 20 interviews with one account. With codeblimp, $14/session. What's the deal? For the probably intended use-case (a screening interview), it seems too expensive. Maybe I'd be more attracted if there was a free limited version that just shared an editor window. But we have collabedit for that.
- stronglikedan 10y agoB2B is generally quite a bit more expensive than B2C, and services are only worth what the market will bear. I would imagine that they did some sort of market research, and found that to be a competitive price. As for why it's a competitive price - well, it's what businesses are willing to pay at the moment.
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- hardwaresofton 10y agoIsn't this usual B2B pricing? I fully expect to charge prices like these if my customers are intended to be mid to large businesses looking to "spice up" how they do recruiting, and think that this will help them do it (not to demean the product, I'm sure it does it's job well). These prices aren't going to work for a lean startup, obviously, because they generally don't have lots of money to throw around, but bigger companies do. Oracle, Salesforce, and lots of other B2B businesses count on it, as they charge more than you would think. I think another good example is highcharts -- with so many free, decent D3 based highcharts alternatives, why would a company buy a highcharts license instead of using one of the free options? Because they can afford to. Companies that can't will try and use a free option, reduce their scope, or put some engineer on it part time.
- asadlionpk 10y agoHello, it's $14 partially because we are dedicating some resources on our end for each interview. Also, after the interview is done, we store the entire image for you to go back and see whenever you want. If you are looking for a free tool similar to collabedit and coderpad, this might be helpful: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/ https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/
- lojack 10y agoDoes this provide additional features that a collaborative IDE like Cloud9 (https://c9.io/ https://c9.io/) doesn't?
- asadlionpk 10y agoIDEs like c9 are perfect for working with your team. Interviews require separate set of features like a separate project for each candidate and ease of sharing it with your candidate. Our aim with CodeBlimp is to optimize for that workflow.
- asdasdaqweawd 10y agoSeems like a bad idea to allow CTRL+d, you seem to have escaped 'exit' but CTRL+d actually allowed me to disconnect and not be able to reconnect.
- Joh_ita 10y agoIt's a great root access shell - world connected - with python. Supercool. May this configure a security issue?
- asadlionpk 10y agoThanks. About security, each shell is inside a sandbox that isolates it from other users.
- Joh_ita 10y agoYes I thought that this might be the case. Have you considered that someone could use your demo page to run his own malicious code? Hey, just wondeiring eh :)
- asadlionpk 10y agoYes, we limit the resources we give to demo containers. So isolation and limited resources should be enough to prevent most malicious codes (like forkbombs, DDOS scripts, etc). Feel free to play with it. We would love to hear if you find something that can cause trouble!
- nimmer 10y agoThat's not the point. You are not preventing malicious pad users from setting up outgoing connection and attacking other systems. Hint: exploits.
- strong_code 10y agoI was able to do rm -rf bin Maybe don't let your users do that? Uptime on the box was 13 days as well - you should probably just spin up fresh on-demand boxes for this.
- asadlionpk 10y agoThis only affects that one interview pad you ran it in. We can make it hard to do stuff like this but one can always find a way. And it's fine too because these commands affect that user only.
- dsacco 10y agoA bit of constructive criticism here. First, the most obvious thing that called out to me - have you noticed that your logo is eerily similar to Linkedin's? It uses a similar shade of blue and at a first glance just seems to be the i and n reversed. I'm pointing this out because you're in vaguely the same domain as they are (hiring/recruiting). I don't know if it's actually an issue. Second, please add a video. Maybe a quick 60 second one that runs through the features with a bit of narration as you demonstrate them. Third, I find your "Why CodeBlimp?" section is a little too light on details. Why do I want full-shell access? What aside from that and "real-time collaboration" (that other tools have) distinguishes you from competing products? I don't feel sold enough on this, though maybe I'm not your target demographic. Another meta-question - what is your market strategy for Slack's inevitable product offering similar features at (likely) a lower price, thanks to the recent ScreenHero acquisition? Is it going to be the full-shell access, etc.? Thanks for showing us, and good luck.
- floydax 10y agoReally nice concept. Any plans for Java projects?
- munirusman 10y agoThanks. You can install JDK.
- tener 10y agoAnything looks to mean "anything that can be installed on Linux". How can I install e.g. Visual Studio?
- asadlionpk 10y agoYou are right. Although... with some hackery installing VS should be possible too. Not at all recommended!
- Omnipresent 10y agoGreat interface. What is the front end built on?
- asadlionpk 10y agoThanks. It's based on React.
- smnscu 10y agoI don't have much to add to the discussion other than me finding this truly impressive. I hope you can get a sliver of the lucrative interviewing market, your execution is delightful.
- asadlionpk 10y agoThank you! :)
- hassanfarid 10y agoGood idea, looks useful. I am assuming it run Debian based OS. Does it also support any other choice of OS or Linux flavor your can work with, maybe I want to interview a candidate for server management skillsets? Like CentOS/RedHat