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I put together something called "wantmyjob" that used the OKCupid solution with making and answering questions about your workplace. Funnily enough, the idea w
by nicholasjbs 15y ago
I put together something called "wantmyjob" that used the OKCupid solution with making and answering questions about your workplace.
Funnily enough, the idea we applied to YC with was "OkCupid for jobs."
- angelbob 15y agoIt's a seductive-sounding model, isn't it? I couldn't find a way to make the business model work. It sounds like you've departed from that model pretty completely (not a bad idea, I say now that I've tried it out).
- nicholasjbs 15y agoYes, it is seductive-sounding. And yes, we switched to a very different idea shortly after YC started. I still think "OkCupid for jobs" has merit, but it has some serious problems, too, not least of which are that it only gets really valuable after lots of companies and people are using it (and we didn't have a good way to bootstrap, at least from the job-seeker end). Another issue is that matching isn't the really hard part of hiring -- the hard part is finding good people.