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by umbrae 3144 days ago
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

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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.