ChristianKletzl

It's weird that he's arguing that Stripe/YC destroys the competition by being the main investor in their competition (Fast)

If you are one of the 15% who were let go, ping me at [email protected] and I'll personally try to help you find a new job. We are working with many companies from YC and other VCs!

SmartHires | San Francisco, CA | full time | onsite preferred

At SmartHires.io, we are building the future of recruiting. We are YCombinator funded and profitable.

=== About us ===

We are connecting great engineers with top companies. Each week we are selecting 20 engineers and put them in front of 100's of venture funded companies, including Zenefits, MemSQL & Producthunt.

For both, companies and candidates, we are highly selective and accept only a fraction of applications to offer the best possible experience.

=== What we are looking for ===

1) You’re a T-shaped Frontend Engineer that helps us improve the candidate/company matching. -> [email protected]

2) You are interested to be a candidate and recruit with our 200+ companies [with & without US work authorization] -> https://www.smarthires.io

I am hopeful that helping your non-hires ultimately becomes a fixed part of a company's recruiting process (especially in SV where companies compete on the craziest hiring perks).

Applicants spend a significant time to prepare and come on-site, even though in many cases this only leads to a rejection. A company's brand and culture should (by a candidate) also be evaluated by how they treat the candidates they don't hire, just how a person should be evaluated by how they treat their waiter.

We've created smarthires.io for this reason. Companies can refer candidates they liked but didn't hire and we'll introduce these candidates to other companies in the same network. Many times a candidate who's not a great fit for one company could be the perfect fit for another.

One of the reasons I am frustrated about a long waiting time is wrong expectations set by the map. The map in SOMA typically shows that 5+ cars are within 2 minutes. As soon as I request, the closest is 7 minutes away.

Love the UI and UX, everything is pretty & intuitive.

Is it possible to tag friends who were with me, at each entry? Either through Facebook or Twitter tags? That would allow me to share the moment with friends who experienced it as well.

---UPDATE---

@everyone: Want us to email you as soon as we have a password-free way to import your purchases? (for example through csv import)

Shoot me an email to [email protected] (subject: "shelfflip passwordfree")

Very interesting point. The Norton batch is our SSL Batch (Symantec bought them or vice versa).

It seems like they need to do a better job of education users about that. I don't think they have a pure "Symantec SSL" batch anymore.

You can also sell products that you haven't bought on Amazon - if we show a price, then we are buying it (you can search for books / electronics here: www.shelfFlip.com/search.php).

haha I know... I just wanted to highlight that

A/B testing showed that the Norton security badge is perceived positively. Does anyone have a different experience?

thanks for the information. looking into this right now (and preemptively deleted the logs)

We haven't tested that, but I highly recommend (regardless of using ShelfFlip) to use "Multi-Factor Authentication" for AWS.

Unfortunately, this only works as a login mechanism comparable to facebook, but doesn't give a site access to your past purchases.

I am really sorry to hear that. We've experienced that once or twice before. This happens when the phone number associated with the account doesn't match the one you entered. Unfortunately, Amazon sometimes asks for an old phone number, as long as that number has at one point been associated with your account. ShelfFlip definitely doesn't do anything scammy.

There is no ceiling in place (I need to look into why different books show similar results). For the mentioned book, there's a difference between for how much it is offered and for how much it is bought (if someone wants $100, it doesn't mean that anyone is buying it for that price)

Scanning 44 other book-buying sites, only 3 are buying that book and the price is between $0.12 and $3.97

I looked into this and the price is now $472. (HN traffic is stress-testing our pricing engine) For this item, we relied on Amazon's trade-in price, which we want to get away from very soon. (because the prices are too low, imho)

You could definitely verify that claim: 1) Try to extract your credit card from your account 2) Order something to a new address without having to verify your credit card.

You will find that both are not possible

I wish Amazon would implement this. We see them visiting our site a lot. If you read this, dear Amazon employee, please implement :)

Great idea. We have that actually implemented, but are currently not displaying it. Unfortunately people are even less likely to give a website access to their emails, since this often means giving access to pretty much everything (through "I forgot my password" emails)

Is there anything we could do to make you (and many more with the same sentiment) more comfortable? We are thinking of writing a blog post of what happens in the background would that help? Any other ideas?

Agreed. However, even with your credentials, we wouldn't be able to access your credit card number (Amazon hides it). Additionally, if we would want to order anything in your name, but our address, we would have to reconfirm the credit card number, which we don't have.