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Blonk – a Tinder for Jobs iOS/Android app
- mehulkar 13y agoI would ranodomize it. I don't want to see all the positions for the same company one after the other. Also, the Filter section froze (maybe because it was still attempting to load all the filters? Maybe pagination would fix that?)
- adambrod 13y agoYea sorry about that, the filters are completely unusable at the moment. The filters view is totally thrashing the DOM. We just released the LinkedIn connect which increased the tags by a ton. This should be fixed in a day or so. A regular text search would prob. be better at this point.
- phreanix 13y agoslight typo @ "...you're intereseted in."
- RussianCow 13y agoAlso "Bob form Acme Corp" should be "from".
- supercoder 13y agoan app like this, but for finding a date / relationship would be amazing.
- durkie 13y agothat would be the "tinder" part
- interstitial 13y agoHe must mean the $1000 reward if you make a hook-up.
- brianbreslin 13y agoI'm afraid this oversimplifies job hunting. Or am i overthinking it?
- gkoberger 13y agoYou could say Tinder oversimplifies marriage hunting. Just like first dates, initial job interviews are relatively low-commitment.
- brianbreslin 13y agohmmm is it strange that I hate the idea of doing 20 interviews and it leading to 1 job, but am ok with the idea of meeting 20 women and it leading to 1 girlfriend/wife?
- eru 13y agoA job is for the next few years (or so). A wife hopefully lasts you longer. And you should probably have more fun on the 20 first dates than on 20 interviews.
- restlessdesign 13y agoDownloaded the iOS app, but nothing ever displays. There's no contact info to get support either!
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- adambrod 13y agoSorry guys, this should be fixed now. There was an issue with the load balancer sending people to a down server.
- CisSovereign 13y agoDownloaded this. Got the landing screen with the loading circle for ~4 minutes. Closed the app.
- adambrod 13y agoWe were experiencing a load balancer problem, should be fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- vijucat 13y ago"This item cannot be installed in your device's country", which is Hong Kong. I guess this is by design since locale is a dimension of complexity that you want to figure out later?
- adambrod 13y agoYea in retrospect I guess it wouldn't have hurt anything to open up internationally... we're mainly focused on the bay area jobs.
- vijucat 13y agoI, for one, would greatly appreciate if you can allow employers to specify if they're OK with Remote (distinguishing between Remote-US vs. Remote-Anywhere, I suppose), and allow me in Hong Kong to apply to them :-)
- freefrancisco 13y agoNeeds the ability to filter by city, select San Francisco only and don't see Mountain View or San Jose.
- adambrod 13y agoThis is coming soon. Since we're focussed on the bay area we put it on the backburner.
- dethstar 13y ago"This app is incompatible with your device." whoa
- adamb0mb1 13y agoThis is the second "tinder for jobs" app we've seen in the last week (the other was www.emjoyment.com -- not a native app though) Torturing the dating metaphor, is Tinder a better model than eHarmony?
- abelnation 13y agoValue aside... what a terrible name.
- adambrod 13y agoBut you won't forget it ;) One of the co-founders picked it and I couldn't think of anything better.
- the4dpatrick 13y agoI was actually really looking forward about using this app, but I found it unusable. I've messaged Patrick about it through the app, but the app froze when I changed the filters. Also, I saw 4-5 listings only?
- adambrod 13y agoSorry about that, i'm working on reducing the number of tags being sent down to the client... it's causing the filters page to totally barf. There might only be 4-5 listings because of the filters? For example if you have the ruby and javascript filter on it will only return those jobs. In retrospect, the whole filters page is a bust... there is way to much to scroll through now, ~800.
- Moto7451 13y agoCouple issues: 1 When viewing a company website on my 5c, there was no UI element or gesture I could conjure to go back to the job listing. 2 I signed up via LinkedIn. After quitting the pp to get out of the webview issue mentioned above, attempting to use the app resulted in me getting kicked out to the reg wall and the linkedin integration failing to work a second time. The error displayed was that I needed to upgrade the app.
- adambrod 13y ago1. Yea this should work but is a problem with how PhoneGap handles links.... it should be opening them in a new slide up browser window but is not. I should have a fix for this tomorrow. 2. If you force quit the app (by holding down home button), and then relaunch you should be good to go. I think what's happening is it's losing connection with PhoneGap... i'm hoping this is fixed in the next day or two The upgrade error is not true in your csae, it was just meant to sniff for a phonegap variable for an older iOS shell, but in this case it's also undefined so it throws the upgrade error. Sorry about the bugs!
- sazpaz 13y agoIs this built on Ionic?
- adambrod 13y agoIt's built from scratch. I'll be open sourcing it all very soon. I'm using Meteor for the front and backend and the UI was just recreated with CSS. PhoneGap provides the shell and basically hijacks the DOM from the Meteor server and re-fires events. I'm going to be implementing the FastRender tomorrow so it'll render all html and json with one request.
- sheetjs 13y agoI must be out of the loop here: what is Tinder, and is it sufficiently well-known that "Tinder for Jobs" is a good summary?
- cjbarber 13y agoTinder [1] is a mobile dating application where users can swipe left or right to indicate if they are interested with another 'tinder-er'. If it's a mutual Yes (when you swipe Yes on someone, they will see you mixed amongst random Tinder-ers on their swipe pages), then you both find out and can start talking. 1: http://www.gotinder.com/ http://www.gotinder.com/
- cjbarber 13y agoAwesome :) This looks great! Francis, congrats on launching: Feedback - agree with below on the name, not so hot on it - be aggressive with your promotion! the challenge is getting developers to actively use the app, so that's what you'll need to optimize I co-created (along with my friend Sam who's fantastic!) a similar app that is in it's very early stages (started many months ago, paused for a while, but in the recent frenzy got it finished up quick!). You motivated me to submit it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7262142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7262142 I'd love your feedback on Score, Francis!
- typage 13y agoI'm one of the co-founders. My name is Tom. Thanks for all of the input. If you have any questions and thoughts on what you'd like to please fire away. Also, my email address is tom@blonk.co
- adambrod 13y agoI'm going to be open sourcing an iOS7 UI web app framework pulled from Blonk if anyone is interested. Let me know what components you'd like to see. It's based on the new Meteor UI components but the CSS could be used on any stack.
- gsaines 13y agoNice work Tom and Patrick, great to see you on HN, hope you guys are getting some traffic and helpful feedback!
- syllogism 13y agoSo how do you prevent yourself from getting scammed for the $1,000 hiring bonuses? You've incentivised people for up to 50-60 hours of effort to scam you. That's going to be tough to defend.
- epaga 13y agoI would assume that the $1000 are covered by the hiring company paying them a higher sum for the referral of the applicant. If the $1000 are coming from a larger sum being paid to them by the hiring company, I see no scam possibility (but maybe I'm just not creative enough).
- adambrod 13y agoYes, we are charging 5k for a job placement, and then kicking back 1k to the person getting hired and $500 to a referral. There's a few vectors for potential scamming but it's going to be closely monitored anyhow. If we can't do this manually because of huge growth it'll be a great problem to have.
- sp6pe 13y agoThis is a great idea and I will definitely be downloading this app. The only issue you might encounter could be, like Tinder - there are too many dudes trying to get laid (people trying to get jobs due to the 1K bonus and $500 referral, and because it is easy) and not enough girls reciprocating (companies looking to hire due to the 5K finders fee).
- bradhe 13y agoWow, is taking a job as snap of a decision as hooking up with someone? Nope. So how does the Tinder model make sense for this? Even from a UX perspective, seems like a really horrible idea.
- blowski 13y agoPersonally, I think it's a great idea. It's been a while since I've needed to job-hunt, but it used to go something like: 1. Scan through indeed.com, StackOverflow, etc, job pages, bookmarking everything that seems interesting. 2. Revisit the bookmarks, checking out the company website, LinkedIn profiles, etc. Select a few favourites. 3. Write CVs and cover letters for the favourites. At step 2, it's great if you can speak directly to your future boss / colleagues. It's like a mini-interview before you go through the hassle of step 3. It lets you get beyond the cliches of the job advert to the actual people. That said, when I've been on the recruiting side, I hated receiving those types of calls because you spend so much time dealing with poor applicants, trying to tell them not to bother applying but still leaving them with a positive image of your company. That's hard to do on the 30th phone call of the day. So it seems that Blonk is trying to filter those phone calls only to those I've already said 'good enough to apply'. The bit I didn't get is the signing-on bonus. As an employer, I would want to get the best possible applicants. The $1,000 seems to skew the kind of people that would be using the service to those who are desperate for cash. To use the 'Tinder for jobs' analogy, if Tinder offered free meals to those who hook up, they will get a large group of "unsociable but like free food" people.
- aashaykumar92 13y agoFunny, I applied to YC with this exact idea. Unfortunately, I had barely done any work other than thinking through the idea so, understandably, nothing came of it but glad to see someone went through with it...good luck!
- plandrem 13y agoPatrick here -- another one of the cofounders. Let us know if you have more questions!