[savorypiano]

I made a confidential salary survey app that is for employers and their candidates to check if salary expectations are within ballpark before interviewing. The idea is that it would save everyone time upfront without affecting negotiation leverage.

Many people have had experiences where interviewing was a waste of time due to the pay range, and this kind of app was mentioned before on HN as something nice to have.

Well, I made one and posted it, and have gotten zero response.

https://payscope.io/

https://payscope.io/blog/employers

I'm not sure what I've learned yet, except maybe PG was right about building for a small number of users who really want your product, rather for many who take some convincing.

[meowsnow]

I wish, as someone who has been job searching, that I could use something like this...Have you reached out directly to employers or did you just post about it to hackernews?

[meowsnow]

Also note that the costs of flying someone in right now is mitigated by the fact that all on-sites are virtual right now. And unemployed people in 2020/2021 may not have the luxury of being picky about a higher salary. You tried launching this in a weird year.

[savorypiano]

The survey was designed to help employers too - it's a large expense for them to interview, especially including indirect expenses.

A weird market should actually call for more screening like this, because expectations can be all over the place right now.

[savorypiano]

I certainly can do more "things that don't scale" but so far the response has been limited, so that I'm not even sure if it's a matter of reaching more people or it's just not something employers want.