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There are a number of notable issues with the marketing claims on this site. There may be a useful tool at the center of it, but the marketing is deceptive - at best. All of the images in their testimonials looked like AI to me, Dloku, the poster, claimed they weren't. Fair enough, but I looked up several in a reverse image search, and they were all stock images. So not AI generated by the poster. At the very least, the images do not represent people that have used this tool, unless all of them happen to moonlight as models outside of their tech jobs. Further, dloku states elsewhere here that this was a three week project when questioned why he is remaining nameless, and has no about page. This tracks with the domain being registered on May 29. However, it raises the question of how so many tech workers/models were able to use the tool, and have so much success. Account manager and Stock photo model Maya (whose profile photo was also found in the pages of a US News teenlife guide on internships [1]) even testifies that she landed 3 interviews in 2 weeks, a remarkable success story and testimonial for a site that only registered their domain 2 weeks before her testimonial. That is assuming that the domain update registered on June 4th was not a nameserver update, and that the site was live and working on the exact day of registration. Maybe they were stealth mode, maybe the testimonials are real, and they just made a judgement error in choosing to use stock images for them. But they came here to HN to show the target market, and solicit feedback, and got snarky in the comments when pushed on this stuff, which to me hints that there is something being hidden from us, or that there is an integrity issue with jobcompass.ai. Very possible it is just posturing in the SV "fake it till you make it way", but I will not trust my career decisions to a company that does this. I would much rather a company just have a good product and tell me about it, than that they use seemingly fake social proof to try to fool me. To that end, can the creators explain why they chose to use stock images and represent them as real customers? Can they explain the extremely tight, barely possible timeline in their testimonial? 1. https://issuu.com/teenlife/docs/how_to_find_an_internship_by... |
The only thing they missed is the trustpilot "top rated by users" badge. They have no presence on trustpilot, nor do they have any user reviews.