Ask HN - rate my startup idea

Asking people here might get you useful info, but getting the target audience to use it would yield better results. To some extent there's probably overlap between HN readers and your audience, but I bet there's a lot of non-overlap (underlap?)

Have you tried getting feedback from people via something like http://fivesecondtest.com/ ?

Conceptually as an idea it's got some merit (this was one of the project areas I was looking at for February). But I'm not your target audience :)

Your 5 step button process needs to be more prominent. Some of your descriptions seem like you felt you had to type something there. I'm not sure the steps need to be numbered, perhaps stress the time it would take to perform the steps, I can clearly see that there are 5 boxes. Sometimes less information is better. I would suspect making the button text more descriptive would work better than a quick title and a rehash. I think I can figure out what 'Review Resumes' means.

Start Now - AB Test this. Something about that box's color, the text, the white on grey text seems oddly out of character. Orange, green, grey and black? Perhaps too low contrast.

As for the business model, I'm curious. Don't you need a separate Job Seeker and Job Creator section. Where are the resumes coming from? Is there a sister site that is collecting resumes from candidates? Am I likely to see hundreds/dozens of resumes for particular fields? I would think I would get to review resumes, you double-blind correspondence or block correspondence, I find a candidate I like, send them a questionnaire. What sort of metrics do I get from this? How many times did they record the answer to each question? Are they able to sit and answer them, or can they pause the process? I might want to ask questions that determine if someone is fast on their feet or can solve a problem without having to google it. Is each question answered a separate video or is it indexed so I can skip to the answers when reviewing it?

Pricing. As someone that hires a few people a year, and knowing I would interview more than 1 person, I would suspect your $10 option would never get used. I would probably suggest you raise that to $20, maybe include 3. Your discount rate for purchasing additional videos seems shallow almost like you've decided $8/interview is your fixed selling price. I wouldn't mind spending more money to get more than 1 interview, but, that depends on where your resumes are coming from.

I'm not wild on the domain name as others have mentioned.

Technically the project looks interesting. I don't do enough interviews where I would buy something like this as I think the interview process affords me the ability to read body language, check reaction times to questions, see visual and hear verbal cues that wouldn't be present in the video interview. Basically, this is a video resume that someone could potentially rehearse and research the answers to the question which wouldn't give me some of the touchy-feely stuff that is important when building a team.

I can see where larger organizations could use this as a first step to deciding whether to fly a candidate in for further interviews. I would think it would work very well when you had a candidate you knew would be good for the organization, but, didn't know which group would be a good fit. Someone like google could pass it around to the actual project managers to find a fit for intriguing candidates rather than hiring than finding a fit.

The idea has a lot of promise, looks well executed.

From an employer's point of view, it's hard to see what I'm going to get out of this that I can't get more quickly by picking up the phone and talking to the person for ten minutes.

But maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong perspective. For filling, say, software engineering jobs it may not be all that useful, but for retail jobs in particular it could save a lot of time. Is this person clean and presentable and well-spoken and generally capable of holding a conversation? Well then, this person is 80% of the way to being a good retail employee!

So this is where I'd target it. Besides, if you can land just one medium-sized retail chain you'll already be making a shirtload of money.

Oh, one other thing: I don't like the name. If you were a potential employee and were told to make a video on "replybutton" then the name might confuse you.

How it works link is broken at the top of the page http://replybutton.com/features.html

Does Replybutton have a capital letter? Some mixture of cases used.

Probably don't need the links to each question on the FAQ page.

FAQ? - Does each interview I buy in the packs have to contain the same questions? Can they be for different jobs?

Make the logo in the top left link to home.

Being treated like a machine even before you are hired by a company would be a gigantic flashing warning sign for me.

However, you might have some luck with companies & governments that I would never consider working for because they treat their staff like shit.

My only question is... I got my first webcam earlier this year. I know a lot of people who don't have one. Do you think this could be a potential block in the road adoption?

It's almost certainly a non-starter at any big company for that reason.

Worth yet, the privacy aspect isn't even mentioned on the start page or the FAQs.