timsegraves

If you're wanting to practice coding interviews with someone remotely you're welcome to sign up for a free account on my site to use the collaborative editor and chat functionality.

https://interviewer.io

Yeah, I agree with the bigger enterprise clients. Sometimes it's hard to have a free version of software you're selling to these types of customers.

My point on the free plan is more like a trial where you get limited use, not giving away the entire thing for free. In interviewer.io's case I also want to be able to help smaller startups who might not be able to yet afford a paid plan at least use the product for the stage they are at.

Thoughts? Any other reason to have or not have a free plan?

Thanks. Yeah, I like Slim as well but most of the projects I work on are using Haml at this point.

Thanks!

Hmm, I'm using Menlo which is monospaced correct? Oh, are you on a PC? Maybe that just comes on a Mac. I created an issue and will look into it. Thanks!

There were a couple other conversion sites out there but I wanted to create one with a little nicer UI and make it open source so anyone can contribute. https://github.com/interviewer-io/haml.io

I wrote a little post on how we're doing A/B testing at Revaluate.

Yeah, some of the data comes from that site but we have a lot that actually isn't available anywhere online.

Agreed on the pricing. We're still trying to dial that in. I think a single 30 or 90 day access makes sense and then possibly a monthly subscription for real estate agents that want to provide reports to their clients.

Ah, very good point. Never really considered that. We'll definitely discuss how we can make that more clear. Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! I actually did notice that issue you mentioned on an iPad this morning (adding a new link to the top yesterday broke it).

In terms of the data collection, currently it's a mix of manual and automated. We're pushing to get is all automated so it'll be easier to maintain and expand.

Cool, I'll check out the sorting issue some more.

That's great feedback as well. We'd debated whether we needed to put a heading above the celebrity carousel and decided to leave it out. I guess we might want to add that in.

Totally agree that the meat of it is down in those datatables. One of our top priorities is to figure out a way to better visualize that. It'll also make the page load much quicker since all that raw data is a lot of HTML to render and send across the wire.

We're still trying to figure out pricing and at this point just want people to use it for free so we can get feedback and iterate and improve before we think about charging. Thanks again for the great feedback.

Thanks so much for the feedback. The loading is still something we're trying to improve. It's pulling in a large amount of data that takes a bit of time. I think we'll end up doing a nightly roll-up of that data to help improve page load times.

I'll take a look at the chronological sorting issue. From a first glance it is working for me but it could be something else going on. Thanks again for the feedback.

That's a fair question. A lot of the data comes from complaints and reports filed through local government agencies. We try to be very objective with the data and present it to the consumer so they can judge for themselves.

We have also talked about the idea of allowing building owners to comment or make a request to prove that issues in a building have been fixed. Though that would be a little ways down the road.

We just launched our new startup this morning. Huge thanks to the HN community for advice and feedback. It's been a great journey so far. Any new feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Yeah, that's a pretty cool idea. I'll definitely play around with it a bit more tomorrow.

Yeah, I think that will be an interesting followup post.

Haha, I know, right?? What's your current project? I love checking out what people are passionate about.

Fair point. I'm actually not a big fan of the automatic sliding either. I just didn't think to take it off. I'll definitely do that now.

Thanks! It can be a little disappointing not making a big splash but I just hope that little post helps others in similar situations remember to keep the longer view.

Decided to open up my side project I spent the last few months on for free. If it gets to expensive too host I might look at charging but otherwise, enjoy. And please use the contact link to send any feedback or feature requests. Thanks.

Yeah, the reminder scheduling piece is definitely a challenge. I think the site will need to maintain that and do notifications, but I feel like to do it right I'll need to integrate with as many calendar providers as possible to make sure I'm not scheduling over someone's meeting. I have the Google calendar part about done but that probably covers less than half of small tech companies out there.

I think this is a good point and something I've thought about a little bit. My thought was most of the basic features such as scheduling and applicant management would carry over to other non-technical roles. I do need to learn a lot more hiring for sales, marketing, etc. to know if there are any special needs from those types of teams.

Having the developer specific stuff an additional purchase option is an interesting idea I hadn't thought of. Thanks again for the feedback.

Nice, that's an interesting idea. Couldn't really play with it since there were no opponents but I think I get the gist of it.

Thanks staunch, that's great feedback. I think you're totally right that getting the entire process replace would be tough. I like the idea of an objective measurement score. It wouldn't be everything but could help out deciding between a couple candidates that were otherwise equal.

Thanks for the feedback manish. I think there a lot of ways the process could be improved and could see this going a few different ways. I'm trying to focus on the most painful parts for developers doing the interviewing initially. I know what's painful for me but am looking to hear what others find painful about the process.

Well done! I like it a lot. I'll probably be in the market for a car soon and will definitely check it out. Thanks.

Yeah, that was sort of the point of that. I wanted to scare off certain types of companies. I may end up removing it though just to clean things up a bit. The feedback I received on it was about 50/50.

Thanks loceng, that's exactly right. I haven't applied for a single job yet but just thought I'd try something a little different this time around. I currently manage a team of software architects and I've probably conducted over 100 phone and in-person interviews in the last 2 years. I can tell you that the resume (online or paper) never means that much.

Until you talk to someone you just never know. I've seen crappy resumes that turned out to be strong candidates and great resumes where they didn't make it past the first 5 basic questions.

Yes Aaron, thanks for the inspiration and the great plugin. I hope you guys do great!