abuiles

Nice job :) I've been in the same spot. Looking forward to try this out.

Have you seen engager.io? ;)

Agree, actually Aline is a hackernewer too, I have seen her writing about recruitment.

Also there is this answer in quora which goes further in both approaches http://qr.ae/1zV1S :)

As Peroni mentioned, Targeted is more effective yet difficult.

A good approach to this is something that I would call "passive targeted recruiting", basically implement policies as "always be recruiting" and having your doors open (office-hours work great for this), take 1 - 2 hours of your week to talk with people interested in knowing more about your company, etc. Also I would say enforce cultural fit over technical, I saw Polyvore's about page and see that you do a really good job selling your culture :).

We release recently an interview with Daniel Doubrovkine about office-hours http://bit.ly/WFhVvo, he also writes a lot in his blog about hiring http://code.dblock.org/help-me-fix-tech-recruiting-become-a-...

Hope it helps! I would be interested in discussing further about the subject if you want (email is in my profile).

Interesting! I was looking for this some days ago :)

Why do you say "I doubt anyone would have me"? J1 visas aren't that difficult.

You can just try reaching out and talking with people, a lot of companies do office hours, you can schedule meetings with them through Skype or Google Hangouts.

I have been working on a platform (engager.io) to help companies and people to find place based on their preferences, we are in early stage, right now one of our features is precisely office hours, so you can schedule a meeting with someone from this companies. Right now we got a couple of companies from NYC, planning to add more and release new features soon.

haha I was wondering about this too, I actually asked in quora http://www.quora.com/Fallacy/What-are-some-famous-examples-o...

There are a bunch on interesting comments in this quora thread: "How do I get more out of less sleep?" http://www.quora.com/Sleep/How-do-I-get-more-out-of-less-sle...

hey Matt, could you give me an email where I can contact you directly, would like ask you some things personally.

Sounds good, your email is not there though :(.

thanks! I'd definitely consider this, actually when we sent email we saw a good click/opens rate. We'll experiment more with modals too.

We have been considering this, I'll give it a try for our next release, thanks!

Nice talk Jan!

Hey, I'll be visiting NYC next week too, I'm from Colombia(South America), I'm attending startup weekend and trying to connect with some people over there, let's meet if you want, builes.adolfo at gmail dot com

It was asked here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512022 The answer was: "It's still too early to tell."

I wonder at which point did you ended up going on this direction, did the launch of recent businesses like http://developerauction.com/ influenced some how this decision? Would you still describe as the "online reputation system for developers" or are you going to turn around and head into a new "job market" where companies can show off their profile? what do I gain following a company? The profiles look really nice :D.

$900 we are almost there!

Recently Quotidian Ventures announced the sponsorship of ten tickets for the startup weekend NYC (http://bit.ly/RyuNSj). And guess what? We both apply and got selected, though we still need some money to make it from Colombia to NYC.

Please help us http://bit.ly/mdetonyc!

This is a really neat idea, I think this market still can be disrupted in many ways, trying to flip the coin like they do is certainly one. I'm kind of excited with this since I'm also working on an idea related with changing the way in which recruiting works, this proves we are right and that the jobs market needs a change.

You can be from anywhere in the world. I'm most interesting in asking questions to any person looking for a job independently of the location.

Hey how's this going for you? would love to hear your thoughts after all the comments in the thread.

Great project! could you please post to twitter or something like that?

Thanks! I'm planning to add more visualizations, so I'm actually saving the data for that. In case you are interested the source code is here https://github.com/abuiles/heathub

Sweet video!.

Looks really cool, looking forward to use this.

Where are you based? How do you deal when you need to give money back? thanks !