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I am certainly biased, but I built a job platform because I felt all the existing job boards were lacking, called Limbo.

https://www.limbo.io

The long and short of the problem is that great folks are often employed and finding your next ideal role is too time consuming and emotionally taxing, and that great folks with diverse backgrounds are unfairly discriminated against at resume review time. Limbo attempts to solve those problems with an anonymous job platform.

More on the concepts behind it here: https://medium.com/@chrisdary/introducing-limbo-ddb97a67ff63


For someone who is considering posting there, it might be of interest to get an idea about the likely payoff:

- How many "reveals" do an average profile get? How many profiles get no reveals?

- What kind of businesses typically use your service, and what countries are they from?


Good questions.

- In the past month and a half or so since we’ve launched, about 20% of published profiles have had a reveal request. That varies heavily based on profile quality, some have gotten 4 in a row.

That said, even though it’ll be pretty low volume it should be very high signal. Our accept rate is around 70% right now. This is primarily because people have to pay outright to contact you (excepting the first free one), so only folks with pretty good matches should be reaching out.

- Tech only right now and also heavily biased towards US, probably 95% US. Startups and Agencies have been the primary target and market. You’re less likely to find a Facebook on Limbo and more likely to find a small team that is a pretty precise match for you. There are a couple larger companies on there though, like Mozilla.


FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.


Ah thank you! I've renewed the certificate now.


Hey folks - I'm one of the cofounders of Limbo. Thanks for linking. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd love to hear them.


I'm just wondering if you got this domain from a squatter or you were lucky enough to find it untaken?


Hey! We have a field that allows you to specify whether you're primarily interested in contract, freelance, or full-time roles.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/IHKy3I5.png

RE: Questions to candidates: We've considered precisely that, with a very similar implementation. We may build it soon!


Was that mentioned anywhere in the AMA? I can't seem to find a thing on that.


Nope, Musk did http://www.whps.co.za Merely an observation that early environment shapes attitudes to life, learning, etc. which can either drive out curiosity and/or ambition or amplify it. (Excluding crucial social navigation and team dynamics, hitting most all of intelligence, ambition, curiosity, confidence (and so on) to do well, but not developing one or more of those tends to become self-limiting factor/s.) Overcoming adversity (being bullied) also helps.


Just a heads up: There's now a link in the post to go register.


This is correct, I'm the creator of jsonlint. It actually uses zaach's implementation of jsonlint in JS, now.

Fun fact: jsonlint uses an html5 cache manifest, and can be used even while offline.


Thanks; that's good to know. Thank you also for jsonlint.com; great tool.


Associated blog post with a bit more detail is here: http://blog.readability.com/2011/04/the-readability-api-cont...


Aside: A long while back I wrote a tiny greasemonkey script to remove those annoying feedback tabs. (Here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76116 )

I forgot that they even existed until you just mentioned it. Maybe other people would want to use it?


It's under the Apache 2 license: http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/


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