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by amitsy 5y ago
This is awesome! There are so many gems here that even if pick up 50% of it and deliver on it, we would be golden. This is probably the most nuanced advise I have received on the sector/our approach and I would have spoken to 100+ VCs
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by amitsy 5y ago
Thanks for that feedback. Yeah, that's one of the major aspects we are focusing on (we are not 100% there). Especially since we work with early-age startups and founders directly in most cases we theoretically can do that. It might tak
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by amitsy 5y ago
Interesting. So instead of recommending your friends, you would be recommending best-suited companies to your friends? I have seen a few of my friends do that when they are helping someone with a job switch.
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by amitsy 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We will fix it right away :)
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by amitsy 5y ago
It is an excellent point and very similar to the experience we had seen when we first started with this approach. We have seen that once financial incentives and limits on no of people whom you can recommend, were introduced, people were no
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by amitsy 5y ago
Thank you so much! Yeah, Memer was our previous startup where we figured out the extent of difficulty of tech hiring.
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by amitsy 5y ago
Very legit point! That is a concern that some of our prospective users do share. What they do in that case is vouch for ones who they know are looking out or can benefit from vouching (eg. folks who struggle at DS/algo interviews etc).
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by amitsy 5y ago
Sorry about that. I understand that it's a big friction point. We would be piloting a web app as well soon to solve for that :)
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by amitsy 5y ago
Yeah. That does happen to be an inherent problem with a recommendation/referral based system. We do see that people recommend engineers very similar to them in profile/demographic. We try to solve it by seeding with a diverse base
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by amitsy 5y ago
We also have a different plan where it's completely success-based. You pay only if you hire any of our vouched engineers. We charge 15% of annual base salary in that case though.
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by amitsy 5y ago
Can you check now? It should be available. We do have 1 canadian company who is hiring for engineers in both US and Canada. We had not opened it till now but have just done that.
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by amitsy 5y ago
Awesome! Looking forward to have you as a user :)
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by amitsy 5y ago
Thank you so much Leonard for the support and wishes :)
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by amitsy 5y ago
Great. On 2, we are currently live in US and India so are available in that geography. We couldn't do much about recommendations coming from other geographies (as we don't have many partner companies there) so have put that limit.
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by amitsy 5y ago
Yeah, that's how most current recommendations work (when one understands the needs of both sides). But we feel that it puts too much friction to recommend. "It sounds like once I as a scout refer my top 10, you prospect them for a
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by amitsy 5y ago
Yes, there is that danger but we have not seen that happening as of yet. Users are only asked for positive reviews
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by amitsy 5y ago
You can choose to remove your name from the outreach if you want to
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by amitsy 5y ago
Great question. It is something which we ourselves asked quite a bit. Currently we don't vet the person who recommends. We leave that decision on to the companies we work with. We have found that credentials of the person who recommend
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Launch HN: Weekday (YC W21) – Hire engineers vouched for by other engineers
98 points by amitsy 5y ago|64 comments
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Discord is the only successful US startup in last 5 years?(productstories.substack.com)
2 points by amitsy 6y ago|1 comments
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Product Stories: How Reddit Achieved Its Product Market Fit?(productstories.substack.com)
4 points by amitsy 6y ago|0 comments
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by amitsy 10y ago
Thanks OJFord. Under education, I tried to highlight a few short term opportunities for indian startups to focus on. From K 12 education to college education, all technology solutions have been built only for English speaking users. There
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by amitsy 10y ago
Completely agree with you on this one. The situation is much more worse than what we living in a bubble imagine. The video really touches your heart. Reminds me of a couple of my friends in my college, and the struggle they went through -
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by amitsy 10y ago
I don't think its the responsibility of the state. It is of the startups to move out of their english speaking bubble and realise the potential of non-english speaking india.
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by amitsy 10y ago
Great points you made. Agree with the fact that Swarachakra is too crowded and huge scope of improvement there. Also agree that the root of problem lie with education and state policies. But even with the huge push that english gets in this
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by amitsy 10y ago
So, are you saying in the long run Devanagari as a script will die but Hindi as a language shall remain. Pretty interesting point. Seems like this is the direction we are going as well.
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by amitsy 10y ago
Agree with the fact that automated translation is making progress but not fast enough. It is very hard to understand context still. The efforts are being to made to bring these 500 million users online now, and an english internet is being
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by amitsy 10y ago
I agree to the first point you mentioned. In certain utility apps like payments etc this would hold true. In an internet without words i.e. images and video that would be true as well. But currently a large part of internet we use is text.
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Does India need its own vernacular internet?(techinasia.com)
52 points by amitsy 10y ago|51 comments