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Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social ... on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:39AM (#20038575)
Explanation on how to use it? Maybe I'll link the youtube video I made on the site to show how it works.
Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social ... on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:38AM (#20038572)
It's using Google Custom Search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/. I thought about hooking it up to all the APIs and decided to do a quick prototype first this way first.

I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social platforms

Posted by theBrandonWu on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:03AM
from the self-post dept.

I've always had better luck hiring from social and professional platforms (GitHub, CodeCanyon, Twitter, Dribbble, Behance...etc.) than posting jobs on job sites. A few weeks ago, I had the idea of creating a simple tool where I can conduct search across these sites - and it's now live on ProductHunt! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/talent-search)If anyone's interested in how it's made -...

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Engineering as Marketing Experiment

Posted by theBrandonWu on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:15AM
from the self-post dept.

After reaching Gabriel Weinberg's book Traction (https://medium.com/@yegg/the-19-channels-you-can-use-to-get-traction-93c762d19339), I was inspired to try Engineering as Marketing as a way to raise awareness for markd.co. Both my co-founder and I like building things and this seems like a good marketing channel for us - something we can actually continue to use.So we did our first engineering...

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Re:Sharing a collection of email templates for reaching out to investo... on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:07AM (#18460347)
Hi HN! Long time lurker and thought I should join in on the fun

I have been raising seed funding for a new startup, and found it challenging whenever I need to reach out to a new person by email (investor, press, potential advisor...etc.). Drafting these emails always take me waaay too long. So I started collecting samples and templates from various sources for cold emailing people.

I thought others might find it useful to have a central place where they can find these email templates, filtered by tags (audience, usage, attributes...etc.), so I put together a microsite to host the content (at https://coldemailtemplate.cc/). I am planning to add more email copies to it so please let me know if there are any resources you'd suggest!

Also submitted this to ProductHunt today (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cold-email-template-cc) - I'd appreciate an upvote if you are on ProductHunt and find it useful Thanks all!