Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction

Re:Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction by sk24iam on Saturday March 22, 2014 @08:57PM (#7451602)

I like the concept. Interesting how it's a game and provides salary analytics at the same time. I just added my profile but I will check again after a few people have predicted my salary to see the results.

I was bouncing around a few ideas that involved using the Linkedin API a few months ago. I have a few questions about Salary Fairy that may help me with my research...

Does Salary Fairy download a user's profile to the database? If so, I thought Linkedin required the user to grant permission to store the data in addition to just obtaining access when logging in. Is this still the case?

What technology stack are you using?

What type of hosting?

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Re:Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction by cagriaksay on Sunday March 23, 2014 @02:41AM (#7452397)

Thanks! We added a privacy clause stating that we store LinkenIn data. We are using python/django on a linux server from DigitalOcean.

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Re:Show HN: Crowdsourced salary prediction by sk24iam on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:05PM (#7453789)

Thanks for the response.

I logged in today to find 3 predictions that were double my actual salary. Maybe if you include an option to add your real salary, the salary predictor bar only allows guesses within a specific range outside of the real salary. It might keep the predictions more realistic.

Also, I received an email confirmation from SalaryFairy. What is the purpose of this if I already logged in with Linkedin? Wouldn't my account already be verified if I have a Linkedin account?

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