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This is batshit, I love it

I'm working on heytavi.com

I was interested in building a product for which 1. the agent is the whole product, not just a component of it; and 2. solves a specific problem out of the box.

Tavi is a deep people search agent that lives in Slack. We used it to find our founding engineer and our first customers are a mix startups, recruiters and VCs.

I'm building this: https://teeming.ai/jobs. It aggregates jobs in AI startups enriched with investor-grade info. Can be navigated with a chat agent, filters, and has automatic CV/Linkedin matching.

I am building something in this space: teeming.ai/jobs

While we are focused specifically on technical roles in AI startups, and we don't "verify" per se, we do enrich jobs data with investor-grade intelligence on the startups themselves, so you can see which companies have legitimate backing.

Nope London. But slack, github and the AWS status page are down for me. Maybe DNS?

That title smells of p-hacking

I'm working on https://teeming.ai, trying to solve the information asymmetry problem in the job market.

The project has been a huge learning curve for me - I started out as a skeptic of how generative AI could solve real problems (rather than just create noise) but now think that, like the internet, it can create a new kind of abundance that will be harnessable in all sorts of interesting ways.

Long airlines and corporate credit cards

Thanks - will look into this

OP here. Appreciate the honesty. I actually agree - I think the same way and I'm realising now that we don't do a good enough job of communicating the need to the user. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

Great suggestion, many thanks

OP here. Appreciate the feedback - the login barrier is definitely something we will take on board. I think some level of identity authentication is a must to counter the scourge of bot traffic, but we will think of ways to be cleverer about this.

With regard to job posting accuracy - absolutely this is a problem. Normalising what different job descriptions actually _mean_ is one of the key challenges we want to solve.

Hi, OP here. Would you be willing to share your query? I will investigate.

Hi, OP here. Really like your approach! Like you we want to solve for talent-first. We believe we can add value for hirers beyond just charging to post jobs. Please get in touch if you'd be interested in discussing further (email in bio).

Hi, OP here. This is the "catch-22" of job sites. If they are open to the web they become swamped with bot traffic. If they are closed then users have to overcome a barrier to use them. We have tried to find a middle ground and use the lowest-effort way (for users) to demonstrate authenticity in the form of a Google login. But we understand this might be putting users off so we are looking at ways we can give away a bit more before requiring a login. Appreciate your feedback.

Hi dang, I'm the OP and a longtime user of HN so I appreciate your fair-handedness on this. We have a small circle of enthusiastic early-users and we made them aware of our 'debut' without explicitly soliciting votes or comments.

True! We use a custom element that hides most options by default but this is definitely something we will consider. Thank you for your feedback

Hi OP here. Thank you for the feedback, which specific issues jump out at you?

Hi, OP here. One of the problems we want to solve is the proliferation of bot traffic on job sites. Requiring a Google login is the simplest way to achieve this for the time being.

Hi, OP here. One of the things we've discovered is that companies post their jobs in a number of locations but often forgot to take them down when the jobs are filled. Compounding this is the fact that some job sites automatically take down ads after a set number of days (say 30 or 60). Working out whether or not a job is "live" is therefore non-trivial but something we actively want to solve.

Hi, OP here. Perhaps "minimal barriers" would have been more accurate. One of the problems we want to solve is the proliferation of bot traffic on job sites. Requiring a Google login is the simplest way to achieve this for the time being.

We are currently building out the portal for startups to find Teeming members. In the meantime we manually connect members to startups when they click "I'm Perfect for this" or "Nudge Founder"

Excellent point - they are sorted by frequency they appear in the data. We have search boxes in the keyword selectors (funding stage, location, etc) but not in tags where arguably it's most useful. Will work this into an upcoming release. Many thanks!

Many thanks for your kind words and thoughtful feedback.

Which additional pieces of job information do you think we should surface before clicking?

Thank you for your kind words!

Appreciate the feedback!

Agent is definitely an area I'm looking to improve with persistence and make it truly personalised.

The difference to the dot com bubble is that the unprofitable companies are privately held and the public companies are extremely profitable and have finally found something to soak up their ridiculous profits other than stock buybacks. How a crash affects anyone other than high-net-worth individuals with money tied up in VC funds is not explained.

Real estate and crypto on the other hand...

If you want to live in a uni-polar world, you should support companies like Palantir which bolster American hegemony over global security. If you would prefer to live in a multi-polar world, with multiple superpowers vying for supremacy, then you should support Chinese espionage operations and invest in Indian oil refineries.

If you think wanting to live in a unipolar world is "evil", then there's no helping you.

The environmental story about AI is extremely boring and I wish it would stop being brought up.

Every technological development since the industrial revolution has increased human demand for energy in some way. It's only the environmental movement, which actively shut down nuclear power plants, which wants human energy consumption to be reduced for cultish reasons.

If we'd ignored anti-nuclear activists in the 70s none of this would be a problem.

Congratulations on launching!

I have some experience with accounting software and its use in various types of business (not just startups).

Xero (rather than Quickbooks) is dominant in the UK and it has a lot of problems. However, I think you are addressing a fundamentally different market. Quickbooks and Xero are both targeted at the long-tail of small businesses - think tradesmen, cafes, hairdressers, etc. The main thing they accomplish for those customers is basic book keeping and business functions (like invoicing, payroll, etc)

Your software seems much more aimed at small companies which want sophisticated tools to generate financial insight. This is not a criticism, just a comment that this is a different and potentially smaller market.

However, one way you could capture the "long tail" of small businesses is by winning over the high-street accountant. If you could let them prepare annual accounts with 10x less work - even if the customer book keeping is a mess - then every accountant will recommend your software to their clients.

Anyway - great to see something new in this space. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss further.