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I have 10 years of professional experience, I have a good CV and I think I'm actually good at my job. But I don't think I will get a job like without a video call.

So I thought: maybe I should build a platform for text based job interviews.

There must be thousands of great developers out there, who don't switch jobs, who don't apply to a position which they would be a perfect fit for, simply because they loathe job interviews, are shy, introverted or have social anxiety...

And companies are missing out on great developers. They are basically filtering out anyone who isn't good at interviewing. I get that for some companies or some positions, talking on the phone or per video chat is part of the job. But not for (every) software developer jobs?

I know that at least one company, Automattic, is conducting their job interviews via text. So it must work, even on the scale of a company with ~1000 of employees.

Maybe there are more?

I'm starting a wait list, and if you are in the same position as me: you want a new job, but you would like to do job interviews via text, please sign up. If there are enough people on the wait list, I will start a new platform, and try to convince other companies use this completely untapped source for new tech talent.

Wait list for developers: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxkdroJ4NrOZFi_HTwEtR7szPKg4uQE_1WUEH9vuEznOEvZw/viewform

If you are hiring and are interested in this, sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePfriC4xwSEUbw8u05UGfLUVpyGBGS79wFInEYrqQnYxPxJA/viewform

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Location: Freiburg, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby on Rails

Résumé/CV: https://wnm.github.io/

Email: low.water9139@fastmail.com (masked email, redirected to my personal fastmail account)

It's a very simple SAAS app for companies to manage their press kit. I have no plans of growing it into a "full" pr suite, like my competitors, I'm happy to stay in my niche and just build the best press kit builder there is.

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Since the developers are reading this thread: I saw that you have a simple press page [0], if you want something more detailed, I can hook you up with a free PressKitHero[1] account.

[0] https://krita.org/en/about/press/ [1] https://presskithero.com

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only 40 people went through with the sign up? I would say thats just user churn because of bad onboarding.

the first thing I would do is let people sign up with just email and password, and actually let them use your product, for a free trial period.

the second thing I would focus on is getting your users to the "magical moment" of your app. Thats a term I first read in context of someone from the growth team at facebook talking about user churn and growth. for facebook, the magic moment for example, was "seeing your friends".[0]

For your app, I think, the magical moment could be the first time a user sucessfully onboards a new client through your app, and sees how easy it is to collect all the requirements etc. If they go through that, and its really much easier with your app, they can't help but start their next client project with your app as well, and upgrade to a paid plan. But to get to that moment, you probably need at least a couple of days. I would not charge users before that moment.

[0] https://blog.kissmetrics.com/alex-schultz-growth/

You also ask that I enter my credit card and you want to charge me 10$ upfront, without having established any sort of trust, or having shown the product to me. I would never do that. I don't even do that for established trust worthy companies. I wan't to see and test the product before I buy.