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Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

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77 pointsjamiequint31 comments

Really impressed by how quickly you've launched and the approach is brilliant. Makes perfect sense!

Particularly happy to see two YC start-ups this week launching products so useable that they're being used on Hacker News... and with British origins too! :D

You can see a Snaptalent widget on the jobs page: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

Couldn't see it at first, then enabled via NoScript. Might be something to consider if targeting technical markets!

Loving it so far. I tried Google a few years back and discarded it within weeks. I would write an article critical of some programming language X and especially critical of trying to program in X without experience, and the ads would be for "Learn X in 21 days."

I dropped it quickly. Even though Google ads produced clicks and revenue, they clashed with my weblog's basic philosophies. But in the trial so far, the Snaptalent ads are for the kinds of companies that seem to fit with my weblog's direction.

Congratulations, everyone!

http://weblog.raganwald.com (ads appear for individual articles, such as http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/11/i-think-it-funny-that-as...)

Great job guys. I've been working with Sumon, Jamie and Tim and getting snaptalent setup on my site over the last 2 weeks. I like advertising jobs over the crap adsense shows.

example of snaptalent on the top of my site: http://paulstamatiou.com

Great idea and everything and a job well done. But considering the fact that approx 50% of the web still use IE your website loads funky under IE but works good under firefox. Here how it looks under IE: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2330400291_26417f384f_o....

I am a freelance website developer and have this obsession with checking new updtarts for browser compatibility. :)

Thanks pavs, we're going to be sure to fix that up over the next few days.

~Jamie (Co-Founder, Snaptalent)

Obligatory tweaks-love-firefox comment:

At the moment, Snaptalent has start ups advertising for hackers. Do 50% of the people they want to hire use IE?

Of course, when they make some sales to BigCo, they ought to be 100% IE compliant.

You guys should also create a centralized listing of all jobs on SnapTalent on your destination site so that people can browse through more than those that appear on a given blog.

as the co-founding cto of hotjobs, i have to say, this is an excellent solution. well done folks.

earle - would love to speak to you. shoot me a line: sumon@snaptalent.com

email sent.

mobiledreamers@gmail.com

earle we d love to talk to u

Congrats! +1 also goes out to everybody on Hacker.News for being positive about new startups mentioned on this site.

I'm really impressed by their customer service.

I got a 404 from the site when applying to a company (they were probably overloaded). A day later the cofounder contacted me apologizing and offering to send my resume directly. Awesome site.

Hey Guys - Please Digg

http://digg.com/tech_news/Snaptalent_Targets_Job_Candidates_...

done :)

Any thoughts on when you'll be available for non-US jobs? I'm currently working at a start-up in Germany and would love to be able to use the service to find people here.

Fantastic, I've been watching these guys execute for awhile and I have no doubt Snaptalent will be big!

This is the single best YC idea I've seen in quite a while. Nice work!

Congrats! These guys are going to be huge!

Congrats guys!

Brilliant. And revenue-producing.

Wow, well done; good judgment YC.

Congrats! Product looks great!

But I hate your commercial!

Awesome!

Congrats, guys. I digg.

This is awesome.

Brilliant! I love the idea. Congratulations and good luck.

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