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Thank you for the comment! To be honest with you, I didn't expect to get this much traction but that's something I have been thinking about a lot lately for the future of the product. I'm still not sure the exact path of monetizing the product yet but I know I want After Interview to help people to get the job they want rather than selling data to companies.

Currently, companies can claim their company pages but exchange for uploading a company logo, description and maybe job listing.

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If enough people join, you can track response times, candidate experience, offer etc and surface data about that for paying customers.

I haven’t looked at your product, but the premise is very real. It would be good to know what companies to apply for based a bunch of variables.

In theory Glassdoor could build that, but their interests are not best aligned to the candidate.

On your FAQ page you say "This will require a monthly subscription fee for companies".

What does the company get in exchange for the monthly subscription fee?

You could use the fact that a candidate has been verified to have interviews at a FAANG to let other tech companies poach them. Maybe a footer saying "Have you considered ACME Corp? (sponsored)" with a bidding system based on where they're interviewing or have interviewed.

Would HN consider that an invasion of privacy?

Not a violation of privacy if you get the users’ consent first. And I’m sure that there are people who would actually want this as a service.

Yes.

Yeah, totally makes sense. Just trying to play devils advocate here as it was the first thing that came to mind and the more I thought about it they worse it got. Likely something you could address is the privacy/terms section if it ever gets to that point. You could also flip it around, and help folks get a leg up on companies, in that you could say folks that interviewed with A/B/C choose A. You might even collect data like glassdoor on this webdev vs devops gets 150k per year for a similar job. Maybe interview-to-offer timelines, like how many interviews it takes, and typically takes 6+ months to get hired here. I'm not sure. I'd just focus on giving potential employees an advantage vs employers. As, employers typically already have a massive advantage for folks just entering the job market.

Is there an offline-only mode that does not access a server or collect data? I could see using this as a local-only way to keep organized without needing any cloudy features.

> help people to get the job they want rather than selling data to companies

I think that's better indeed. If the model is to sell data to companies, it may feel to the user that you're telling companies which companies they're interviewing with, etc.

What are the odds you mentioned this product on here like a year ago and they this sprung out of your own job own hunting? This feels familiar but I can't place why.

Can I speak with you about this? I have been working on this market for a bit and have some product ideas that might be useful to you. Email me :)

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