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Ask HN: Please provide some honest feedback about my project
Hello everyone. I've been working on a project that I am pretty excited about. It is a social job search tool. Basically it searches your social networks to provide a list of job opportunities from the companies that your friends and followers already work for. (Yes, I am aware of the competitors out there). I would love some feedback from the HN community, positive and negative comments are welcome. While I am going through the customer development process, I'm excited to hear from my own community.
My website is www.jobzey.com
Thanks in advance.
- byoung2 15y agoClickable: http://www.jobzey.com http://www.jobzey.com
- byoung2 15y agoOn security and permissions: Why do you need access to my uploaded photos and videos. Wouldn't the profile picture be enough? And what are you going to post on my wall? Please don't tell the world I'm looking for a new job!
- markhall 15y agoThanks for the question. Regarding the "post on your wall," we definitely took into account the importance of what this statement may mean about the user. We decided to put an engaging phrase like "Are people using websites like jobzey.com to find jobs?". This way, it doesn't show the user's intent, but does create curiosity among the user's friends. Regarding the access of photos and videos, we don't actually need it at this moment, we are toying around with different ideas to better leverage all forms of a user data to provide more value to the job results page. Thanks again for the comment. What did you think overall of the funnel? design? simplicity? etc. Any comments are appreciated.
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- GAgeek 15y agoThe contact email addresses and about pages having the {at} and {dot} is not friendly to non-techies. Figure out a better way or just use contact forms. A good walk through of exactly what you need to access and exactly how and what will be posted on your social networks will be important. People will be fearful of using something that will spill the beans that they are looking for a job. In many places people have to friend their paranoid bosses who keep tabs on their employees.
- markhall 15y agoThanks GAgeek. I agree with a lot of what you mentioned and we are going to look into making some changes. Would you recommend us explicitly state what phrase will be posted on your wall. Regarding the email addresses, we listed like that to avoid many of the spam emails that result from bot crawls. I appreciate your feedback and thanks for the advice.
- japhyr 15y agoI don't use any app that insists on posting on my wall. I will spread the word about your project if I am satisfied with it, but I will not use your project if you insists on spreading your word through me.
- markhall 15y agoThanks japhyr for the feedback. This is one area that we are still trying to determine the best approach for.
- japhyr 15y agoHow about the opt-in model? For example, after someone actually gets a job that they found through your service, they could have the option of letting your app post to their wall. Something along the lines of, "I just landed a new job by using..."