Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/12/snaptalent-targets-job-candidates-where-they-work-and-spend-time-online/

by jamiequint • 18 years ago

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pg• 18 years ago

You can see a Snaptalent widget on the jobs page: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

optimal• 18 years ago

Couldn't see it at first, then enabled via NoScript. Might be something to consider if targeting technical markets!

rms• 18 years ago

Congrats guys!

ivankirigin• 18 years ago

Awesome!

garbowza• 18 years ago

Fantastic, I've been watching these guys execute for awhile and I have no doubt Snaptalent will be big!

sharpshoot2• 18 years ago

Hey Guys - Please Digg

http://digg.com/tech_news/Snaptalent_Targets_Job_Candidates_...

earle3• 18 years ago

done :)

arasakik• 18 years ago

Congrats! These guys are going to be huge!

madmotive• 18 years ago

Really impressed by how quickly you've launched and the approach is brilliant. Makes perfect sense!

Particularly happy to see two YC start-ups this week launching products so useable that they're being used on Hacker News... and with British origins too! :D

aston• 18 years ago

Congrats, guys. I digg.

mattculbreth• 18 years ago

This is the single best YC idea I've seen in quite a while. Nice work!

chris• 18 years ago

Congrats! Product looks great!

anewaccountname• 18 years ago

But I hate your commercial!

earle3• 18 years ago

as the co-founding cto of hotjobs, i have to say, this is an excellent solution. well done folks.

sharpshoot2• 18 years ago

earle - would love to speak to you. shoot me a line: sumon@snaptalent.com

earle3• 18 years ago

email sent.

luxiou• 18 years ago

This is awesome.

vlad• 18 years ago

Congrats! +1 also goes out to everybody on Hacker.News for being positive about new startups mentioned on this site.

PStamatiou• 18 years ago

Great job guys. I've been working with Sumon, Jamie and Tim and getting snaptalent setup on my site over the last 2 weeks. I like advertising jobs over the crap adsense shows.

example of snaptalent on the top of my site: http://paulstamatiou.com

myoung8• 18 years ago

You guys should also create a centralized listing of all jobs on SnapTalent on your destination site so that people can browse through more than those that appear on a given blog.

jgrahamc• 18 years ago

Any thoughts on when you'll be available for non-US jobs? I'm currently working at a start-up in Germany and would love to be able to use the service to find people here.

whacked_new• 18 years ago

Wow, well done; good judgment YC.

pavs• 18 years ago

Great idea and everything and a job well done. But considering the fact that approx 50% of the web still use IE your website loads funky under IE but works good under firefox. Here how it looks under IE: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2330400291_26417f384f_o....

I am a freelance website developer and have this obsession with checking new updtarts for browser compatibility. :)

jamiequint• 18 years ago

Thanks pavs, we're going to be sure to fix that up over the next few days.

~Jamie (Co-Founder, Snaptalent)

raganwald2• 18 years ago

Obligatory tweaks-love-firefox comment:

At the moment, Snaptalent has start ups advertising for hackers. Do 50% of the people they want to hire use IE?

Of course, when they make some sales to BigCo, they ought to be 100% IE compliant.

nkohari• 18 years ago

Brilliant! I love the idea. Congratulations and good luck.

raganwald2• 18 years ago

Loving it so far. I tried Google a few years back and discarded it within weeks. I would write an article critical of some programming language X and especially critical of trying to program in X without experience, and the ads would be for "Learn X in 21 days."

I dropped it quickly. Even though Google ads produced clicks and revenue, they clashed with my weblog's basic philosophies. But in the trial so far, the Snaptalent ads are for the kinds of companies that seem to fit with my weblog's direction.

Congratulations, everyone!

http://weblog.raganwald.com (ads appear for individual articles, such as http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/11/i-think-it-funny-that-as...)

Prrometheus• 18 years ago

Brilliant. And revenue-producing.

nose• 18 years ago

I'm really impressed by their customer service.

I got a 404 from the site when applying to a company (they were probably overloaded). A day later the cofounder contacted me apologizing and offering to send my resume directly. Awesome site.

Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

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