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Rolepad is a product born out of dissatisfaction with hiring processes - both as a candidate and as a hiring manager. Processes that are non-transparent, inefficient, and full of frustration for both sides. This early iteration has focused on the application tracking aspects with a few extra goodies.\n\nThese days it is common to apply to dozens of positions (some users track over a hundred opportunities). Without a record-keeping system, it can quickly become an unmanageable mess. Even the better-organized among us often end up juggling spreadsheets, emails, and various notes. 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Not sure how to put this without marketing-speak, but I do truly believe that there is a win-win proposition here where an amazing candidate…",{"value":73,"source":54,"evidence":74},"Dissatisfaction with non-transparent, inefficient hiring processes as candidate and hiring manager",[75],{"id":57},null,[78,82,86,90,94,98],{"value":79,"source":54,"evidence":80},"React",[81],{"id":57},{"value":83,"source":54,"evidence":84},"Tailwind",[85],{"id":57},{"value":87,"source":54,"evidence":88},"C#",[89],{"id":57},{"value":91,"source":54,"evidence":92},"AWS App Runner, Lambda, RDS Postgres, SES",[93],{"id":57},{"value":95,"source":54,"evidence":96},"Firebase auth",[97],{"id":57},{"value":99,"source":54,"evidence":100},"vite-plugin-ssr (vike) on Cloudflare Worker",[101],{"id":57},"free","launched","unknown",{"praise":106,"objections":134,"requests":168,"questions":194,"alternatives":209},[107,123],{"value":108,"source":109,"evidence":110},"Good idea solving a real problem","commenter",[111,115,119],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"37800285","benjaminwootton","This looks really nice and solves a real problem. One of the best niche SaaS ideas I've seen in a while.",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"37798230","davidmurphy","Phenomenal. Highly needed product. Wish I were a VC and could invest!",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"37799325","mhlakhani","This is a great idea! I remember facing similar pains when applying to dozens of companies last year and talked about a similar idea with a friend - glad to see someone building…",{"value":124,"source":109,"evidence":125},"Attractive design and sankey progress charts",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"37800355","usrme","This is absolutely gorgeous! Would you ever consider having a self-hosted version for job-seekers?",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"37799505","hubraumhugo","Love the progress visualizations as sankey diagrams. Reminds me of the many posts on r\u002Fdataisbeautiful about job application progress, e.g.…",[135,150,157],{"value":136,"source":109,"evidence":137},"Privacy concerns about storing sensitive career data and possible monetization of it",[138,142,146],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"37801446","simpaticoder","Really good idea for an app. My only wish is that the data was local only. It seems to me that the temptation to monetize this very valuable data will be irresistible. Although…",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"37802068","i000","The privacy statement is brutally honest they can do with your data whatever, sell it, keep it even though you delete, ruin your life. “Hey google recruiter would you like to…",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"37800743","kissgyorgy","Looks really good, however another proprietary app which would have all my data. I just put together a Kanban board with Obsidian, which is Mardown in files, so I have full…",{"value":151,"source":109,"evidence":152},"Review system could be gamed like Glassdoor",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"37799347","smusamashah","This looks great I am very suspicious about the company and interview reviews part. Glassdoor destroyed trust by giving incentive to employers destroying trust in reviews. I have…",{"value":158,"source":109,"evidence":159},"Spreadsheets or Gmail already sufficient",[160,164],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"37799232","androng","sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the…",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"37807781","quickthrower2","Looks impressive! Would I use it? Probably not. I never have found I needed to track everything in a spreadsheet. Either they offer me a job or they don’t. 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I think that the area where I'd love some tool to help me would be keeping track of phone calls - ideally even attaching recordings to a…",{"value":188,"source":109,"evidence":189},"Auto-fill for Taleo and Workday forms",[190],{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"37799947","gadders","Please build something that auto fills Taleo\u002FWorkDay application forms.",[195,202],{"value":196,"source":109,"evidence":197},"How the email forwarding verifies the sender",[198],{"id":199,"by":200,"text":201},"37799420","lelanthran","This looks good. How does the email addresses work? When I foward to sales@rolepad.com (or no@rolepad.com), how does it know that the message came from me[1]? Do you send back a…",{"value":203,"source":109,"evidence":204},"How monetization works",[205],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"37797401","randomsofr","Looks pretty good, i'm wondering how are you planning on monetizing this?",[210,215,219,226],{"value":211,"source":109,"evidence":212},"Spreadsheets",[213,214],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},{"value":216,"source":109,"evidence":217},"Obsidian Kanban",[218],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},{"value":220,"source":109,"evidence":221},"Glassdoor and Levels.fyi",[222],{"id":223,"by":224,"text":225},"37799350","nvy","I feel like at this point you're also building glassdoor or levels.fyi in addition to rolepad.",{"value":227,"source":109,"evidence":228},"Duotrope",[229],{"id":230,"by":231,"text":232},"37798048","erehweb","Have you looked at Duotrope (duotrope.com)? That solves a similar problem - tracking acceptances \u002F rejections for writers. 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