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In contrast to some other posters, I love the design. Vaguely reminded of the Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog box art [1]. I'm all for colorful geometric shapes. W

In contrast to some other posters, I love the design. Vaguely reminded of the Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog box art [1]. I'm all for colorful geometric shapes. What I don't like is the same thing I see everywhere else. There's this implicit assumption that nearly everything will be on the web. [2] I don't want frontend or backend jobs. I want to move away from the web. I'm tired of the web. I want to do something else. Like, I get it. That's where ninety-something percent of the jobs are. But I would love if, as an industry, we took a step back from that. [1] http://www.boxequalsart.com/sonic-1-md-jp-big.jpg http://www.boxequalsart.com/sonic-1-md-jp-big.jpg [2] With token acknowledgement of games and embedded

dvykhopen 4y ago
Thank you! was the value proposition clear to you or did the design distract a bit?
- VyseofArcadia 4y ago
  The value prop is only clear to me from reading your show HN description. The copy on the site itself is the same sort of marketing-speak I see on every other job website. I have to scroll pretty deep to even get a hint of what you've described to us on HN.
  - dvykhopen 4y ago
    yuck. gonna fix that today, thanks
bspear 4y ago
+1 to your landing page design. Very fun and engaging. Some feedback: - Onboarding is too long: incentivizes fake sign-ups just to see the jobs - None of the investors listed seem that impressive, which makes me think this is just limited supply rather than higher-quality supply - Card design looks like Otta, made me wonder what makes this site unique? Your site feels like a twist on https://topstartups.io/ https://topstartups.io/ except I prefer the open format of being able to see everything. Maybe it's instant gratification
- dang 4y ago
  We've banned this account for spamming HN and ignoring our request to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443956 HN is a site for curious conversation, not link promotion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dvykhopen 4y ago
  - actively working on "top investors" and filtering by that as well (we prioritize tier 1, they just get lost in the fray) - onboarding -- looking at our data, surprised that a lot of people didn't fake it, just dropped off at the create acct page - working on updated jobs page + home page refreshes haven't seen topstartups! looks great. we kill it on curation + matching. Curation: lot of dead startups from tier 1 investors. instead, we look holistically at growth rate, funding, major hires, benefits, etc to recommend great co's. no one else can do that. matching: instant gratification is nice, but when you're actually looking/applying, you don't need quantity.

dvykhopen 4y ago

Thank you! was the value proposition clear to you or did the design distract a bit?

VyseofArcadia 4y ago
The value prop is only clear to me from reading your show HN description. The copy on the site itself is the same sort of marketing-speak I see on every other job website. I have to scroll pretty deep to even get a hint of what you've described to us on HN.
- dvykhopen 4y ago
  yuck. gonna fix that today, thanks

bspear 4y ago

+1 to your landing page design. Very fun and engaging. Some feedback: - Onboarding is too long: incentivizes fake sign-ups just to see the jobs - None of the investors listed seem that impressive, which makes me think this is just limited supply rather than higher-quality supply - Card design looks like Otta, made me wonder what makes this site unique? Your site feels like a twist on https://topstartups.io/ https://topstartups.io/ except I prefer the open format of being able to see everything. Maybe it's instant gratification

dang 4y ago
We've banned this account for spamming HN and ignoring our request to stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443956 HN is a site for curious conversation, not link promotion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dvykhopen 4y ago
- actively working on "top investors" and filtering by that as well (we prioritize tier 1, they just get lost in the fray) - onboarding -- looking at our data, surprised that a lot of people didn't fake it, just dropped off at the create acct page - working on updated jobs page + home page refreshes haven't seen topstartups! looks great. we kill it on curation + matching. Curation: lot of dead startups from tier 1 investors. instead, we look holistically at growth rate, funding, major hires, benefits, etc to recommend great co's. no one else can do that. matching: instant gratification is nice, but when you're actually looking/applying, you don't need quantity.