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I love all the bot comments and upvotes, always a good sign! I fail to see how this will make hiring faster/better - we already get so much recruiting spam, wh

• andyprevalsky 1y ago
  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 1y ago
    > 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=osamahqatanani https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edwardkongg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cagarza1000 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amiayoshimura https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apresser https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidansimonian 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=jsjkim00 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=annawang7
    • andyprevalsky 1y ago
      they aren't bots they are friends & customers of the product that we told about our launch and they came to show support...
      • dang 1y ago
        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/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
        • andyprevalsky 1y ago
          Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb
        • AllyRectangle 1y ago
          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-clickfarm-at-our-office-the-activity-7366862143658348544-0nc-?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA8eFQQB4NI7HAn15PEDv7pJV_GDhC2O7xo https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...
          • dang 1y ago
            It's no different.
    • andyprevalsky 1y ago
      if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol
      • jrflowers 1y ago
        > if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol Can you elaborate on what you mean by that
        • slater 1y ago
          "if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...
          • jrflowers 1y ago
            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 1y ago
              I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that
              • jrflowers 1y ago
                So the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?
  • mosdl 1y ago
    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).