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Nobody caring is the default state for a startup. If you got any feedback the first time around you're ahead of the pack. If you have "thousands of partner st

Nobody caring is the default state for a startup. If you got any feedback the first time around you're ahead of the pack. If you have "thousands of partner startups in Silicon Valley," (really?) why aren't they giving you feedback? Here's some feedback from me. There are some obvious problems with the screenshot. Percentile is misspelled. Zero interviews and zero offers are depressing, change those numbers. "Schools went to" is wrong, should be "schools attended." As a not-really-interested browser of your site, I'm asked to put in my contact info before I can do or see anything interesting. Maybe if I were desperate for a job I'd be willing to do that, but then I'd probably be at a regular job search website instead. I don't understand what the motivation would be to "choose who you want to work with" - don't people solve this problem through their real-life network (or social networks) already? I guess my question is, if there are hirable people already in touch with each other (they know each other), what are you bringing to the table? Why are these people having trouble finding work? Just some thoughts since you asked. I hope you're successful, I'm interested to understand how this would work. Good luck.

soheil 10y ago
Thanks a lot. Fixed most of those issues. I just don't understand how to show more of the product without asking for basic use info first. Even to sign up for Twitter you will need to give more info. Are you saying I should communicate the message more on the homepage/sign up page. Or make the product available by removing the sign up wall?
- eschutte2 10y ago
  OK, I should have looked at your main homepage earlier. The animated gif there seems good to me - show me what the product does, without having to fully support a "demo" or sandbox login for visitors. Probably a single screenshot doesn't communicate enough. But really, the technical features are not that big a deal here, this is primarily a non-technical area (getting hired). I think the main issue here is, what's the motivation for somebody to do this (assemble a team to get hired)? Presumably it's that they want a job. Are there enough people out there with this problem and desire to make it valuable to solve? The hiring company has more immediate motivation (and budget, probably). There are probably things you could do to make the page more engaging. For example, if you could figure out even one person I'm remotely connected to via public profiles and show me that person's face with a big choice "Would you want to work with ___ again? Yes/no" that seems like a decent hook and you could go from there. But is it worth sinking time into building that? I think it would be best to sit down in person with a bunch of people on both sides of the problem and figure out what would get them excited.

soheil 10y ago

Thanks a lot. Fixed most of those issues. I just don't understand how to show more of the product without asking for basic use info first. Even to sign up for Twitter you will need to give more info. Are you saying I should communicate the message more on the homepage/sign up page. Or make the product available by removing the sign up wall?

eschutte2 10y ago
OK, I should have looked at your main homepage earlier. The animated gif there seems good to me - show me what the product does, without having to fully support a "demo" or sandbox login for visitors. Probably a single screenshot doesn't communicate enough. But really, the technical features are not that big a deal here, this is primarily a non-technical area (getting hired). I think the main issue here is, what's the motivation for somebody to do this (assemble a team to get hired)? Presumably it's that they want a job. Are there enough people out there with this problem and desire to make it valuable to solve? The hiring company has more immediate motivation (and budget, probably). There are probably things you could do to make the page more engaging. For example, if you could figure out even one person I'm remotely connected to via public profiles and show me that person's face with a big choice "Would you want to work with ___ again? Yes/no" that seems like a decent hook and you could go from there. But is it worth sinking time into building that? I think it would be best to sit down in person with a bunch of people on both sides of the problem and figure out what would get them excited.