My SaaS is used by 4000 recruiters every day and I’ve worked in the industry for 15 years so I feel I can chime in here :)
What you’re proposing has been done before, but it’s never been done well. For example, Chosen AI set out to solve this but ended up pivoting.
It’s still a problem that is interesting and I’d be keen to chat with you more on it if you’re open to it - if we can nail the tech, I know the route to market and can help kickstart it.
Recruitment/staffing agencies don’t tend to buy tech the way others do - direct sales is best, at least, at the beginning to get feedback.
TLDR. Recruiters will absolutely want this, but the execution is key.
Happy to jump on a call to give some advice - without seeing you, the product and your approach it’s practically impossible.
I was in your position and decided to make my first employee a salesperson - I learned a bunch from them and now handle enterprise sales while leading a business of 20 people (7 in Sales).
I owe a lot to HN so would love to give back if I can.
On the flip side, I don’t think it’s pricey, $25 per user, per month for something that will make developers more efficient is well worth it. Sent to my Tech Lead to see if he wants to sign up.
I was hoping someone pointed this one out. Granted, they've blogged about spending tens of thousands of dollars on lawyer fees and the owner's last name is Nissan. But still, it's a good case study of the little guy winning.
It’s something I’d bundle in my own product if you had an API, something where I can create/remove trackers and then get alerted to changes via webhook.
If you ever build that let me know, as you say it’s something we could build but I’d rather not deal with everything you described :)
Hi Darren, thank you for the comment! Webhooks is indeed something that's on my immediate to do list. As a matter of fact, it was originally supposed to be a part of the MVP, but was put on hold so that the launch could happen quicker :).
I'd like to understand your use case better and shall drop you an email!
What you’re proposing has been done before, but it’s never been done well. For example, Chosen AI set out to solve this but ended up pivoting.
It’s still a problem that is interesting and I’d be keen to chat with you more on it if you’re open to it - if we can nail the tech, I know the route to market and can help kickstart it.
Recruitment/staffing agencies don’t tend to buy tech the way others do - direct sales is best, at least, at the beginning to get feedback.
TLDR. Recruiters will absolutely want this, but the execution is key.