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Re:AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:12AM (#48412839)
I may have been describing a competitor, Google Hire. It was rumoured to have been built with tech from Diane Greene's Bebop startup which was an ERP and generalized application builder.
Re:AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:12PM (#48406417)
Co-Founder of Ashby here, just want to correct the record, that we were not targeting a mid-market ERP. We really wanted to build better hiring software. While our first customer was on our analytics-only product, it was built on a platform intended to be an ATS. We did build some abstractions/building blocks that are not hiring-software-specific (e.g., a workflow engine) because we recognized they allowed us to build rich features faster.
Re:AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:46PM (#48406209)
We're doubling the Engineering team :).
Re:AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:38PM (#48406143)
Ashby Co-founder & VPE here, happy to chat if you have time to share feedback, abhik AT ashbyhq ᐧ com.

We had to build a lot of product in a short period of time to be a viable option to replace incumbent ATSes who had fought off many startups (and it couldn't be buggy or unreliable). The startups that focused on simplicity and usability just never made it. So, we focused on building something flexible and customizable first, with usability being something we wanted to make excellent second. You probably felt that over the past few years, and I'm sorry you did. We've been working hard to improve it, especially in the past year (e.g., you can self-serve account downgrades and some product upgrades now!).

Still more work to do, but thanks for putting up with some of our deficiencies :)

Re:Serving 250k Developers with One Support Engineer on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:09AM (#34937685)
Hey! Ashby co-founder here, you can either close the job (if you’re no longer hiring) or unpublished the job posting, more here (https://www.notion.so/How-do-I-set-up-jobs-089229a8631f4b9fb...). Feel free to reach out to [email protected] and we can chat there (if you haven’t already)

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