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1. Build a scraper for LinkedIn for all the data that can be accessed by users and companies with or without paid accounts. Do the same for Glassdoor, Github,
by ActorNightly 3y ago
1. Build a scraper for LinkedIn for all the data that can be accessed by users and companies with or without paid accounts. Do the same for Glassdoor, Github, so you can cross correlate the data. Don't run the scrapers yet.
2. Design a backend for all that data, and design a clean and responsive UI that doesn't rely on 50MB of data loaded with each page load. Should work very fast on web and mobile. The site should be basically better than LinkedIn. Things I would focus on:
- Better candiate showcase than just simple resume. Allow for linking of github with summary widget, allow to upload videos, allow some human reviewed content (like proof of employment, proof of salary, e.t.c), iframes displaying own user website, and so on.
- Automatic job postings for candidates that can be tied to their backend, some automated interview process that companies can define leveraging LLMs for design and verifications.
- Something like Discord that people set up for companies, with automatic discovery, good privacy, e.t.c.
- Freelance integration capability. I.e something like Amazon Turk or Fiver. In between jobs? Easily complete bounties, or have companies reach out to you for temp contract work.
3. To get people over, the idea is that you a) pay them to switch over and b) pay them for actions that cause others to switch over. This can be done in may ways. You can for example set up a token based system where users can earn tokens for doing actions, then sell those tokens to you for a given price. You can distribute tokens backed by some of your funding/revenue, and also charge some price for users to buy new tokens that correspond to be able to do premium actions.
4. Before launch, run the scrapers, set up some initial database to ease the transition of users, with all the scraped accounts being in the system as unclaimed. This will make the experience better since users can largely access the same data without having the respective entities sign up, and also encourage users to message their connections to sign up and claim their accounts (for some tokens of course).
Overall this should encourage users to transition over. You can also leverage things like posting freelance "gigs" to improve the site, which not only gives you ability to run leaner with less dedicated employees, but also to now capture the developers that write plugins for your site as users which then have experience displayed in their profile which companies will find valuable.
If you actually do this, msg me.