[andyprevalsky]

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]

> 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

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jsjkim00

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7

[andyprevalsky]

they aren't bots

they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...

[dang]

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[andyprevalsky]

Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb

[AllyRectangle]

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]

It's no different.

[andyprevalsky]

if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

[jrflowers]

> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that

[slater]

"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...

[jrflowers]

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]

I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that

[mosdl]

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).