mosdl
5 months ago
I love all the bot comments and upvotes, always a good sign!
I fail to see how this will make hiring faster/better - we already get so much recruiting spam, why would this be any different?
andyprevalsky
5 months ago
aint no bots here sir
This is different because you don't need to jump through hoops w/ recruiting agencies or spend a bunch of time looking through your employees or personal networks to find the right hires, and the lead verification part is automated too!
It essentially shortcuts all the hiring headache, and lets you just focus on meeting highly qualified candidates that fit your JD without all the people that get in the middle of that process and bloat it.
jrflowers
5 months ago
> aint no bots here sir
That makes sense. A bunch of real folks registered to post “this looks great” within minutes of this being posted
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osamahqatanani
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian
And these two have been waiting years to comment but were finally moved to for first time
andyprevalsky
5 months ago
they aren't bots
they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...
dang
5 months ago
Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this.
andyprevalsky
5 months ago
Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb
AllyRectangle
5 months ago
I'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...
dang
5 months ago
It's no different.
andyprevalsky
5 months ago
if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol
jrflowers
5 months ago
> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that
slater
5 months ago
"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...
jrflowers
5 months ago
I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.
I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.
andyprevalsky
5 months ago
I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that
jrflowers
5 months ago
So the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?
mosdl
5 months ago
So your ai agent will send outreach emails to potential candidates it chooses, which is not really any different than using any of the automated recruiting tools already out there. I don't see what is the difference here - using LLMs to solve something that is already pretty much automates (outreach).