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by ReDeiPirati 1314 days ago
I know how hard is to get feedback on new product ideas, so here are my 2cent:

> What can we do better?

Explain for who is this for (it's quite reductive to say that it's for everyone who wants to get a job in tech), and what value we do get. There are thousand of free remote job boards, what is the competitive advantage of using this one? on which dimension is 10x better than the status quo? If I have to pay is because it's should drastically increase my chance on some particular aspect of the job hunting process.

> Are you gonna give us money?

No. I can't see the value of this compared to other alternatives or something that I can do by myself by browsing the web. Providing access to the raw data sounds like the quickest pivoting idea, but I don't think that it's necessarily right, or at least it could serve a tiny niche that may eventually become your beachhead in this market as you as you figure out how people use those data.

> Why do you hate the design?

I don't think you have issue with it's usability (forgetting for a second about the things you are still working on), but it's a matter of I don't understand the value of using it.

2 comments

Yeah the raw data thing is something our team seriously talked about as a "why is an excel sheet more valuable than our product rn?" It's not right, but it gives us an idea of the right direction.

As for value -- yes, this came up a lot and we're aggressively tackling this. Our beachhead is folks who want to make loads of money at a fast-growing startup but don't know how to pick the right one. We're changing a few things in the product to make this more clear + easier to actually do.

thank you SO much for the thoughtful response by the way, our team talked about this one a lot!