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On Wednesday, I had the idea that developers should be able to schedule programming interviews whenever they want and track their progress over time. This idea is now a real product called Rate My App, now available!

Launch pricing for the first few users is $9.99 for a 30 minute interview. Please provide any feedback you have! You can also follow the project on twitter, tumblr, facebook, and youtube (/ratemyapp.)

Thank you! - Vlad (@vla)

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I couldn't find any details on the qualifications of the person giving feedback.

Excellent question, smokestack! My goal is to test the viability of such a product with real customers. I am applying my experience to help out fellow developers with most of the possible combinations of interview requests, and I offer a money back guarantee if somebody is not 100% satisfied.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazhbin

Thank you!

I think you'd be better off getting folks who are actual interviewers (or ex-interviewers) from Google, etc, to conduct interviews; your site focuses on that as one of its selling points but your resume doesn't match up (in fact your LinkedIn gives no indication of how experienced an interviewer you are).

I think this is one of those products that's best served by finding people one-on-one who need help, and providing it for free so you get a bunch of testimonials, pictures, videos, etc -- rather than throwing up a landing page and survey. It's definitely a useful service; I mentor folks in interview practice occasionally these days, and there's certainly an appetite for it, though a lot of people I talk to tend to go about it by applying for jobs they don't really want and using those interviews as practice.

Awesome, thank you, Jennie!

I think you're absolutely right that the product needs to display profiles of specific interviewers (starting with me) as the next step.

Thank you for the feedback!

Sure, then it will only be a $1000 an interview.

It is not clear what metrics are used to measure progress over time.

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