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Michael Seibel

Hiring Club - Recommend engineers to top startups and earn $1500 per hire

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Anonymously vouch for the best engineers among your LinkedIn connections and get $1500 for everyone who gets hired. Help your friends get connected to top Y-Combinator founders directly. No recruiters.

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Chetan Dalal
Maker
We have started Weekday Hiring Club where we are trying to make hiring easier for startups by unlocking a new supply of passive engineers who are not actively looking for jobs but are vouched by their friends. We came up with this idea while hiring for our last startup. When we asked our friends for referrals, they couldn't remember who to refer. We then started asking them to do 10-min screenshare Zoom calls with us wherein they would scroll through their LinkedIn connections and recommend the ones they enjoyed the most working with. This increased our pipeline of candidates by 3x. We are productizing that approach with this product. Now anyone can recommend the best engineers in their network to directly connect with founders of top startups.
Arnav Bathla
@chetandalal1993 I absolutely love the fact that you productize this small hack. Keep up the good work
Gabriel Eidler
Hello, I made a few UI /X Feedback for your product :) https://app.usebubbles.com/kaine... too bad I don't know any top engineers, but awesome product!
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@gabriel_eidler Thanks a lot. Incorporating your idea of CTA button at bottom today.
Yoav Zimmerman
I had the opportunity to beta test this product -- within seconds I had synced my LinkedIn and was vouching for high-performing colleagues. Congrats on the launch @chetandalal1993!
Ishan Anand
Kudos, this takes so much friction out of making job referrals! Small request - could you limit the chrome extension to only access my activity on Linkedin? I can adjust it locally but extensions requesting global access just tickle the spidey sense :)
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@ishan_anand2 Thanks Ishan. Agree with you. Will update this permission in a few days.
Christine White
Ok. Interesting that you’re communicating your product is described with the “no recruiters” tag line. You’re just turning engineers into recruiters and no legit engineer is going to want to sell their contacts. Because if they do, that contact is going to get targeted for a job they didn’t ask for and probably don’t even want. That will create negative blow back for their digital or real world relationship. Would love for you to prove me wrong. Good luck!
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@christine_white Thanks for the feedback. 1. While this is a more open-ended launch, we usually give the specific details of the job opening to the engineers. Hence the engineer only recommends those they think are a great fit for the given jobs. 2. The default is that their recommendation is anonymous. Hence no blowback to real-world relationships.
Anubhav Malik
Maker
@christine_white Thank you for the feedback :) Sure, we are cautious about it :D We explicitly operate in India and USA and the extension is not listed on webstore in any EU country. Any identifiable information consent is declared on the webstore as well. :D
Ashray Malhotra
Congratulations @chetandalal1993 @iamitsy. Great concept, looking forward to using it more at Rephrase.ai :)
Hemant
Awesome product! Just synced my LinkedIn and vouched for a few friends. How does one get the assured $20 for just syncing their LinkedIn?
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@twisev You will receive an email with $20 Amazon gift card in 2-3 days
David Furlong
Heads up mobile website is very hard to use btw
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@david_furlong Thanks David. Yes, we plan to fix that in the coming days. Current usage is more desktop specific.
Anurag Sharma
I have sent you couple of rockstar engineers. Hoping things work our for them! :)
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@anurag_sharma2 Thanks man! Hope they get hired and you get your rewards.
Srijan
Product looks great! Looking forward to trying it out. :)
Ada Jen Norman
Wow! this is a superb idea. congrats
shikha Mohanty
Great stuff Chetan and team! Wish the team and your hires the best!
Eldridge Ewing
Class Act
Adya Mishra
Neat and easy to use. Really like the concept, keeps us away from the unnecessary trouble of other hiring sites. Really nice!
Anubhav Malik
Maker
@adya_mishra Thanks for using our product!
Owen Bodley
Awesome idea! I'll message you later Chetan; we're looking to hire shortly so it could be great to work together.
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@0hwo Awesome, definitely.
almenon anon
What's to stop someone from recommending all their contacts to maximize their chances of getting the $1500?
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@almenon You can only recommend up to 10 people
Dyego Vasconcelos
Great idea but needs improvement. Just tried to sync my linkedin contacts but got an error when submitting. Apparently the issue is related to CORS.
Anubhav Malik
Maker
@dyegovasc Hey Dyego, sorry for the error you got. I have analysed this and am able to see that you have successfully submitted some recommendations too. I hope they all get hired! :D Would love to talk more about this over email : anubhav@weekday.works
Sara Scak
Do the candidates you suggest have to opt-in to allow you to track their progress, or does this happen automatically?
Chetan Dalal
Maker
@sarascak Since the companies will reach out to the candidates via us, we get to know the progress.
Sara Scak
@chetandalal1993 It looks from the slides above (unless I'm misinterpreting) that whoever suggests the candidate gets to view that progress, as well. Do the candidates have the option of keeping that information private from their colleagues?
Rajat Dangi 🛠️
Fresh new idea, nicely executed!