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Good luck, but man was I hoping for a way to somehow help us manage recruiters, mark spammers, etc.

I kind of need exactly the opposite of this. I'm an engineer that's on the market again and being contacted by scores of companies, etc. I need a convenient way to manage all of them.

Doesn't a CRM sort of satisfy that need? Lot of people use them for lead management.

working on it. Need a good domain name though.

http://jobs.rawsignal.com

Someone mentioned it looks a lot like basecamphq.com. But you should rip off the most important thing they have done which is put sign up front and center.

1. Change the "See how it works" button to "Pricing and Signup" and link to your pricing page.

2. Make the entire graphic above the button clickable and also point to the pricing page.

Good points ... we are trying out a few combinations with the layout - hopefully, we can make it easier for people to do both: find what the app does and register

Nice look and feel. I don't yet have the need, but I'd try it when I do. Your home page has an info-graphic and some advantages/benefits, you also have a how-it-works walk-through and you have a 4-page tour. Seems like overkill, but you probably know better than I do: 1. which of these is converting? 2. which are most prospects (not people like me who just wanted to look at the app) visiting and spending time on? 3. were any of these pages or sub-pages a direct response to customer requests (implicit or explicit)?

I'm not asking for a defense - I'm asking because the answers would really help us our with our own site!

Thanks.

1) Its hard to say anything conclusively from a conversion perspective yet. 2) A lot of visitors go to the tour before signing up. That is also where they spend most time. 3) Not really. Most pages are still in a transition, and we're trying a bunch of things. Currently, the changes are based on "what we want our users to know", rather than user feedback

Regarding the "How am I charged" information: just curious, why did you decide to go with that setup (an "piggy bank" that you fill and then are deducted from one day at a time at a set rate) instead of the more standard "We charge you $30 monthly at the beginning of the month" practice? Easier for you on your end? Or do you think the customer gains a benefit from it? Just curious (Note: I'm not someone who's thinking about buying this and held back by this practice, just a curious bystander).

The current payment system is in transition - we want to eventually move to the recurring payment model like you mentioned. The reason it stands today is that things like managing change of plans, trial periods etc is a big pain with paypal. We're exploring various (non-paypal) alternatives to this.

Have you considered adding video profiles of applicants? There is a startup that Paul Graham interviewed that does exactly that. But I like your overall presentation more. Good luck!

Video profiles are a fast way to discrimination lawsuits.

Its a good thought, but right now, we're more focused on helping companies just organize their existing way of hiring (and not change their ways themselves)

Hi. I'm one of the creators of Recruiterbox, and pleasantly surprised to see that someone has posted about us us here. Will try my best to answer any questions/comments

Do you really have Levi in India signed up? If so that's awesome and congrats, and you should make that more prominent.

Yeah, we do ... In fact they were our first clients

Great work. There's so much space available helping companies managing their incoming data. This is a great start.

Though I haven't been through a hiring process in awhile, I'm surprised though that this doesn't have some kind of referral bonus/source tracking feature built into it. Seems like it'd be novel and useful.

I don't understand how there is "so much space available helping companies managine their incoming data". There's Resumator, JobVite, JobScore, Taleo, Brassring, OpenCATS, Healthcaresource, MaxHire, Vurv, (I can list 60 more if anyone would like.)

The point is, what need is this filling that isn't already filled? I wholly welcome better technologies to help employers - but I need to know what makes the technology better and their tour page doesn't ring any "innovative" bells for me.

Nice work, and good luck. The recruiting market for software is a tough one.

We are using Jobvite for this which is way too expensive and a total pain in the ass.

If you are a rails app please make it so that the job page can be edited with Liquid. Also provide an API so that we could migrate.

The flock of people leaving Jobvite for JobScore or Resumator has been truly incredible. I hope they can plug the hole in their dam, because they have a good product, but it is exactly keeping customers like you happy where they seem to be lacking at the moment.

I totally relate to this. Most recruitment tools are cumbersome and a job in themselves. We wanted to build something that gets out of your way and gets the job done.

We are django app - do you know Liquid like frameworks for django? Suggestions welcome.

Other than the home-page being nearly an exact clone of the basecamphq.com site, it appears to be a solid product.

Why no live demo of a fictional company?

We're working on a live demo.

Is there an option to pause a subscription? Companies will eventually fill all their positions and won't always need to use the service.

Yes. Subscriptions can be paused/cancelled any time.

Looks pretty awesome, would love to see more screenshots though.

At first glance, this looks about 100x better than jobvite.

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