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In contrast to some other posters, I love the design. Vaguely reminded of the Japanese Sonic the Hedgehog box art [1]. I'm all for colorful geometric shapes.

What I don't like is the same thing I see everywhere else. There's this implicit assumption that nearly everything will be on the web. [2] I don't want frontend or backend jobs. I want to move away from the web. I'm tired of the web. I want to do something else.

Like, I get it. That's where ninety-something percent of the jobs are. But I would love if, as an industry, we took a step back from that.

[1] http://www.boxequalsart.com/sonic-1-md-jp-big.jpg

[2] With token acknowledgement of games and embedded

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Thank you! was the value proposition clear to you or did the design distract a bit?

The value prop is only clear to me from reading your show HN description. The copy on the site itself is the same sort of marketing-speak I see on every other job website. I have to scroll pretty deep to even get a hint of what you've described to us on HN.

yuck. gonna fix that today, thanks

+1 to your landing page design. Very fun and engaging.

Some feedback:

- Onboarding is too long: incentivizes fake sign-ups just to see the jobs

- None of the investors listed seem that impressive, which makes me think this is just limited supply rather than higher-quality supply

- Card design looks like Otta, made me wonder what makes this site unique?

Your site feels like a twist on https://topstartups.io/ except I prefer the open format of being able to see everything. Maybe it's instant gratification

- actively working on "top investors" and filtering by that as well (we prioritize tier 1, they just get lost in the fray) - onboarding -- looking at our data, surprised that a lot of people didn't fake it, just dropped off at the create acct page - working on updated jobs page + home page refreshes

haven't seen topstartups! looks great. we kill it on curation + matching. Curation: lot of dead startups from tier 1 investors. instead, we look holistically at growth rate, funding, major hires, benefits, etc to recommend great co's. no one else can do that. matching: instant gratification is nice, but when you're actually looking/applying, you don't need quantity.

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