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Show HN: Stintin - jobs for the not so faint of heart

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11 pointswheresclark12 comments

Interesting niche concept, but why did you choose to charge the individuals seeking jobs, rather than charging the business advertising the job?

The business model of most recruiting sites are that the customers are the guys with the jobs, seeking qualified candidates.

The business model of this site appears to be "selling the dream of adventure" to individuals. It's not really about selling job advertisements, or even jobs. It's about selling the dream, "even you can be an astronaut". To be able to sell the dream, you have to establish credibility that you can deliver. That's missing from the site as it is now.

Your thoughts?

It seems to be a nominal fee to prevent dormant accounts from taking up resources, and ensure a pool of committed candidates. I'm sure they are charging job posters much more money, and those posters would have the confidence that their offers are reaching committed individuals. (mostly - aside from the 30 day trial users)

You're bang on the money. This was a very very very early stage test to see what people thought of the idea and if they valued it enough to pay $5. Round two of development will involve more work on the business model and adding the examples of job posts and credibility factor. Thanks for much for the feedback. It's invaluable.

Honest question: Why are so many sites overwriting the scrolling behaviour with JS, do you need that to trigger animations or is there another reason I'm not aware of yet?

That's what really annoyed me as well. It breaks the two-finger swipe back on OS X Chrome as well. Very annoying...

Sorry about that UX faux pas. I'm still learning these things. I didn't realise it was causing problems. I'll get onto it straight away. Glad you let me know. Thanks.

Interesting concept, it would be good to have a couple of examples of the kinds of jobs you'll be listing, I think then more people will be more likely to sign up.

Without examples, just 30 seconds wasted scrolling twice.

Cute but desperately needs example-jobs, testimonials.

Evidently not-so-faint-of-heart people don't use noScript, which makes sense, I guess ;)

"Discover amazing careers you should totes apply for"

This doesn't seem in-sync with your overall tone of trying to inspire me to be courageous. Plus, it makes me quit thinking about me, and start thinking about the author.

I agree. Will change that now.

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