SalaryShare
Web and SaaS
salary comparison
SHOW HN2011
278points
147comments
#16of 1,097 in 2011
Top 2%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 61 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 25 critical, out of 92 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Privacy: 1 for, 10 againstIdea: 2 for, 7 againstDesign: 1 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Nice solution to a known problem
From 1 comment
Nice solution to a known problem. The app is simplistic and doesn't really need to collect any more information. As long as people enter accurate salaries then this should prove…
evoltix on HN
Good idea, useful with small peer groups
From 2 comments
A few stats and graphs won't hurt; but it's great for 6hrs.
shawndumas on HNVery cool. Might be interesting to collect age, years of experience and perhaps company while you're at it so you can see a nice distribution. This might destroy some anonymity…
jsherry on HN
Objections
Context like title, experience and location is needed for meaningful comparison
From 2 comments
Without context, salary is meaningless. You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.
donohoe on HNThis. And also location. Without location this is useless. I can't possibly compare my Slovenian salary to you yankees :)
CWIZO on HN
Small teams could be identified from salaries, so anonymity fails
From 2 comments
The anonymity doesn't really translate to start ups where there are < 100 employees. I work in an office with 10 people. If everyone posted their salary I would be able to easily…
paradox95 on HNI work for a company with well over 100,000 employees, but if I gave my salary, title, and years experience (and as someone else noted, especially if I added my location), I…
pstack on HN
Site did not load over HTTPS cert or was broken in some browsers
From 3 comments
One small issue: https://salaryshare.me/ does not work. Considering who this is targeted at, I wouldn't want my office mates who are my co-workers to snoop on my POST to your…
IgorPartola on HNPut your bugs on this thread. Submit button does not work in IE7
hammock on HNFirefox throws an untrusted connection warning that this certificate belongs to another website.
Joakal on HN
Boss could flood pool with fake low salaries
From 2 comments
Without verifying anyone's identity, couldn't the boss just flood the pool with low salaries?
codexon on HNWhat's stopping someone from sending a link, then entering a bunch of fake salaries (by clearing cookies), to find out co-worker's salary (not one of the ones you entered, though…
mesmerized on HN
Requests
Histogram, average, and median display
From 3 comments
Wouldn't kill to show nice histogram of the pool.
scotty79 on HNAnd an average.
mcantelon on HNThis looks great. Ideas for the future... ``` - improve formatting of the list (right justify numbers for example) - slider to allow us to cut off low and high outliers when…
Sukotto on HN
Support for other currencies
From 2 comments
> US Dollars, please But I get paid in pounds sterling. Can't this just be a free-form text field?
timrobinson on HNSo create a context. Suppose you're a junior developer in Slovenia and want to know how much your peers are earning. Create a pool named something like 'Slovenia junior dev…
Sandman on HN
Minimum participant count option
From 2 comments
Who defines the 'minimum number of people'? If it's not user-defined, I think you should make it clear what that value is. Otherwise, if I share this to my team of 7, but the…
zipdog on HNThat is correct. I did have one version where the first form asked for the minimum number of participants. I discarded it because I wanted to get the easiest "action" form. To be…
rglullis on HN
Time-based expiring pools
From 2 comments
Nice idea, but I'd want to e.g. wait a day/week/month and then disclose all salaries and close the pool. After all, salaries added after the pool has been opened are much less…
JoachimSchipper on HNI did plan for time-based, self-expiring pools. I'm also thinking of adding an option to get a user-configurable minimum number of participants. For the sake of simplicity, I…
rglullis on HN
Public pools listed on front page
From 1 comment
How about listing public pools on the front page (and giving the option to make a pool public)
klochner on HN
Questions
Who sets the minimum number of people before results show?
From 1 comment
Who defines the 'minimum number of people'? If it's not user-defined, I think you should make it clear what that value is. Otherwise, if I share this to my team of 7, but the…
zipdog on HN
How is the webfaction certificate used and is it trusted?
From 1 comment
I imagine that this will deter people from quickly starting up a packet sniffer when they share links to your site. However, how are you able to use webfaction's cert? Do they…
IgorPartola on HN
Alternatives named
Glassdoor
From 3 comments
Take a look at glassdoor.com - it handles salary info with context (company, etc)
BenSS on HNHow's this different from Glassdoor.com?
markdennehy on HNwww.glassdoor.com does this pretty well...
fapi1974 on HN
ackwire
From 1 comment
The anonymity doesn't really translate to start ups where there are < 100 employees. I work in an office with 10 people. If everyone posted their salary I would be able to easily…
paradox95 on HN
FuelForHire
From 1 comment
The site is awesome, I did basically nostromo's trick with my colleagues in the past and found that I had the highest salary by a reasonable margin but was the newest hire. Ah,…
hanchang on HN