When we talk to our clients, we're a recruiting company which uses online challenges to a) source and b) pre-qualify very good engineering candidates.
When we talk to engineers, we're a company which makes fun engineering-y things you can do on the Internet. (Hack a stock exchange through it's REST API! Code a market maker! Buffer overrun a C program running on an AVR microprocessor to corrupt a FIX message to steal a billion dollars!) And we can also, potentially, introduce you to a job if that is interesting to you. Our estimation is approximately 95% of our users are not in the market for a job at this exact moment in time.
You can see the two-sided messaging on our website:
For companies: https://www.starfighters.io/approach
For engineers: https://www.starfighters.io/players
Thanks for the answer!
Which one pays the bills - or will pay them?
Given this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692083 I'm kind of curious how you guys - who have a boatload of startup/bootstrap smarts - managed to go off "into the weeds" of geeking out on the tech and ignoring the company's business. If you want to talk about it, of course.
Good luck in any case!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7NaxBxFWSo
They used a game to recruit warriors to protect the galaxy or universe or something. Lost with my memory. I remember loving the movie when I was younger. Gotta rewatch it some time.