Show HN: The Five Year Itch
Show HN: Experienced software engineers who want to change jobs after a few years need a service targeted at them, that won't make them chase ads nor swamp them with recruiter spam. We built FiveYearItch.com We're wondering: Does this meet a need for the stable, experienced, skilled, but non-rockstar programmers?
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When you consider the complications in making software global, I can see why our potential customer base doesn't make it worthwhile.
Even the simple things are tougher than they seem (post code vs. zip code). It seems easy enough to detect their location and display the right wording... but then your help documentation is going to be wrong for some, or will you create multiple versions of that too.
I wish it were different, but I suspect until we have the same needs/laws, it's going to continue like this.
After reading through the site though, I am not sure the tone/feeling of your site suits your purpose. Looking for a job is a very serious thing, I wonder if your site is a little too comical for your audience/purpose.
For me, it doesn't have the feel of a site I would want to use for job hunting.
Also who, when bored with their current job, asks themselves "oh how could I scratch this Five Year Itch that I'm having"? I'd venture to say anyone who has worked that long in software development would either reach out to their network or simply stop ignoring the requests from recruiters they're getting.
More generally, a name of with this sort of specificity gives people a chance to paint themselves out of the picture. Regardless of the duration references, some of the relevant audience is likely to say "that's not about me".
But then again, I know there are dating sites which only focus on cheating so surely there is a market for this too.
NB: I don't know anything about dating or dating sites.
however, what really worries me is that you use sendgrid, but still your confirmation email got to my spam folder.
Does this mean that sendgrid.me (what was used in that case) reputation is down?
I strongly suggest that you get your own email IP, you will have low bounce / unsubscribes anyway as you send only transactional emails
(I'm not affiliated or have any relatives in sendgrid)
Other than that I really like the low traction.
By 'low traction' I presume you mean the ease of signing up. Thanks, yes, we made it super-easy on purpose. Our target market is busy people who don't feel like chasing down new jobs.
One thing to consider; I spent about a minute looking on your site (and on Laudits) for information about you and didn't find anything. So you seem kind of anonymous. You could be a bunch of sniggering recruiters, I don't know.