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Comment by andy_ppp | Hacker News Reader

Before you sign up this is a paid product that doesn’t show you any information about the company unless you pay $15 per month or something. I feel like this is a bit of a dark pattern to not mention charges before getting people to sign up.

EDIT: corrected price $$$

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The landing page has a pricing section. Hmm perhaps this should be obvious on the /jobs page as well.

I think one rule around Show HN is that you allow people to see content without signing up, let alone paying for it. So this is a violation of that rule.

Edit: actually search is not behind the paywall (although that's not very obvious)

You can currently search the job listings without having to sign up, which only hides the company and the link the job listings.

That’s definitely violating the spirit of the rule

Right, the data is worth nothing without additional info.

Also, there's no way to delete your account, or remove your email. Which is not just frustrating -- it's flatly against GDPR, CCPA, etc etc.

I relatively recently was looking for a new job, so I was curious to see how well my own search process compared to this. Then I was mildly annoyed to discover that they require email signup to actually view any details about the company or the job. So I give them my email. And then I was even more disappointed to discover that they require you to pay money to even see the link to a single actual job posting. Sorry, not gonna do that if I'm just trying to scratch the curiosity itch. So then I go to delete my account, and... nothing. No can do.

Honestly one of the quickest turnarounds from "oh, neat" to "jeez, what a disappointment" that I've had in recent times.

I made a point to collect almost no information (only email) from the user (as opposed to Linkedin which asks for all sorts of data to sell) but happy to delete your account if you just email support. I also dislike having my data used or sold. That is not the purpose here, the feature to delete your account is just not yet there, appologies

UPDATE: You can now delete your account (under the 'My Account' tab within the /settings page)

Looks like the price went up to $15.49 within the last ten minutes. Supply must be limited. Demand must be soaring.

No that has always been the price. Nothing changed. Same $ as a Netflix subscription was the idea

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