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While this sounds quite good on paper, I have a few questions: - What kind of data are you storing about a user? You mention verification with LinkedIn but wha

by s5ma6n 7y ago

While this sounds quite good on paper, I have a few questions: - What kind of data are you storing about a user? You mention verification with LinkedIn but what happens if your database is compromised 6 months later and all data is accessed by a malicious 3rd party? - When checking salaries, I prefer to search a job title and look at the average salary of a country, city, region or a company. Do you provide these features? - I looked at the demo application and only thing I see is a table with some entries. Unfortunately, this is not very user friendly. - I would want to see the average salary of a position - Count of salary entries of a position - Variance for the salary of a position (min, max, average, median) - The way to success is to have a lot of salary entries in your database. As a newly established service owner, how do you plan to keep users with your service and providing updates rather than using glassdoor etc. competitors? - How do you plan to monetize this service? Please do not see my comments as offensive, I mean to ask honest questions and give criticism.

waterlink 7y ago
These are all great questions! Thank you for asking! - For the data question, you can find all the information on our privacy policy in details (https://www.fellowage.io/privacy https://www.fellowage.io/privacy): what is stored, how it’s processed and for what reason, lawful basis, etc. Please read this about how I disassociate account information (and protect it) from raw pseudo-anonymized wage entries (that are already "public"—available to all users of the system via search): https://dev.to/foundsiders/how-have-i-ensured-the-privacy-and-anonymity-of-my-website-users-5fgb https://dev.to/foundsiders/how-have-i-ensured-the-privacy-an... - I don’t provide these features right now. Currently, product solves slightly different problem, and I think it’s possible to expand its feature set to cover for search by job title/location, or company. You can already search by company/location though. (It’s a search bar at the top of the webapp’s UI). - These are all features that show you statistical distributions, and while they are useful, there are plenty of tools that solve for that problem already. I set out to solve slightly different problem: “Who should I look up to in my company to earn more?” or “How up-to-date are specific salary entries?” - I plan to notify my users to update their entries every half a year. Also, there are features that allow users to set up alerts for certain companies/locations/job-titles when there are new entries, or updates. These alerts are aggregated in a weekly report (if it’s not empty, of course). - The current plan for monetization: there are two types of accounts: free and paid. Free account can view their own company/location without limitations, and for viewing of other companies/locations there are 3 monthly free views, that can be substantially and permanently boosted with referrals (similar to what Dropbox did with their referrals). Paid account has no limitations, of course. Please tell me what you think about these replies! :)

by s5ma6n 7y ago

waterlink 7y ago

These are all great questions! Thank you for asking! - For the data question, you can find all the information on our privacy policy in details (https://www.fellowage.io/privacy https://www.fellowage.io/privacy): what is stored, how it’s processed and for what reason, lawful basis, etc. Please read this about how I disassociate account information (and protect it) from raw pseudo-anonymized wage entries (that are already "public"—available to all users of the system via search): https://dev.to/foundsiders/how-have-i-ensured-the-privacy-and-anonymity-of-my-website-users-5fgb https://dev.to/foundsiders/how-have-i-ensured-the-privacy-an... - I don’t provide these features right now. Currently, product solves slightly different problem, and I think it’s possible to expand its feature set to cover for search by job title/location, or company. You can already search by company/location though. (It’s a search bar at the top of the webapp’s UI). - These are all features that show you statistical distributions, and while they are useful, there are plenty of tools that solve for that problem already. I set out to solve slightly different problem: “Who should I look up to in my company to earn more?” or “How up-to-date are specific salary entries?” - I plan to notify my users to update their entries every half a year. Also, there are features that allow users to set up alerts for certain companies/locations/job-titles when there are new entries, or updates. These alerts are aggregated in a weekly report (if it’s not empty, of course). - The current plan for monetization: there are two types of accounts: free and paid. Free account can view their own company/location without limitations, and for viewing of other companies/locations there are 3 monthly free views, that can be substantially and permanently boosted with referrals (similar to what Dropbox did with their referrals). Paid account has no limitations, of course. Please tell me what you think about these replies! :)