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Show HN: ApplyAssists – AI resume builder using Google XYZ formula — Hey HN,My name is Daniel. About a year ago, while job hunting, I noticed that all the AI resume builders are focusing only on ATS scoring and templates, and of course I used them too.But no results, just rejections, and then I found videos from Farah Sharghi (ex-Google, Lyft, Uber, TikTok, and New York Times recruiter), and she mentioned the Google XYZ formula and the study that is on the Boston University website that used eye tracking software to see how recruiters look at a resume. Apparently, they spend only 6 seconds reviewing an individual resume.As a product owner with 20+ years of experience, naturally I started researching this resume vs. recruiters game. I have built a NotebookLM, and I gave it every winning resume I could find and talked to friends here in Romania, where I am located, to interview as many recruiters as I could find, plus all the studies I have found.I have asked a colleague of mine who is a software engineer to build me a system from all that knowledge so it will help me make my resume as perfect as possible. In 3 weeks, I found a job that I am currently working at.About 3 months ago, we decided to build a real product to help others, and this is how ApplyAssists was created.Now we are in the testing phase, and this is why I am here. We have 50 spots for a Free Private Beta test, and all we need from you is your feedback.You can use the system completely for free, and you have my step by step support.Looking forward to hearing from you!
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Show HN: Hirenewtalent.ai – Hire offshore in minutes via API — hi everyone. My name is Jai.I own one of the largest driving schools in the Bay Area (and California!), and while trying to hire offshore staff, I discovered just how hard it is.IT'S (surprisingly) WAY TOO HARD!!My best friend Alex and I realized that throughout our careers in F500 companies, startups of every stage, and small businesses that we ran into this problem many times over.You pretty much have 3 choices:1) you go to an agency and pay upwards of $3k+ a month for a resource that should cost closer to $1k/mo. 2) you go to a legacy marketplace like Upwork/Fiverr and screen all the resumes yourself, interview each candidate, figure out payments, and then negotiate/contract with each candidate. 3) you buy a bunch of software like LinkedIn recruiter (or AI slop recruiting tools) and Deel/Rippling for payroll, and you build the entire hiring process/infrastructure yourselfAll 3 of these options straight up suck.We realized that if we were to reimagine how a marketplace functions using AI, we could create a seamless experience that has never existed before.Here are some features that set us apart:1) No more reviewing resumes: We parse, vectorize, and serve up whatever candidate you need.2) No more interviews: We launch AI interviews to interview candidates on your behalf. You can watch the replays.3) No more negotiating: We set market rates ourselves (think Uber, Lyft, Doordash, etc.). There's no negotiating with candidates, ever.4) Global payments and compliance: We handle all global payments and all compliance. One Stripe payment, and you're good to go.5) Labor liquidity: Your hire sucks? no prob. We'll replace them in hours bc we're a marketplace and have ample supply/demand.We believe that labor markets should function as financial markets do, and we think we're one step closer to achieving this reality.Oh and btw, you can do all this through our API/MCP using your own agent (we're calling this "Vibe Hiring")Alex and I hope you enjoy our product as much as our customers (and we) do. We literally use HireNewTalent.ai ourselves to staff our own companies, so we live, breathe, and eat this!Any feedback helps. Thanks y'all!!
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Show HN: Alphie – see who's on your website and chat with them from Slack — Hi HN, Yura here, co-founder of Alphie.In my previous YC company, we got a lot of good traffic, but only about 3% of it ever converted to demos.We tried RB2B and many other visitor resolution tools - but weren't happy with the accuracy.So, after that company was acquired, we decided to build our own platform.We've found a way to achieve a much higher ID rate and accuracy than most of the previous-generation visitor ID tools.Company-level visitor identification is about 3 times more accurate than individual-level. We use a waterfall of several data providers to boost it a bit further. Then an agent analyzes your ICP, figures out the decision-makers - and closes the loop by enriching their data. The thing is, for B2B, knowing who was the actual person that visited your website matters less than knowing that a certain company is in the market.An unexpected side effect is that about 30% of companies can be identified via reverse IP lookup, which takes less than a second.This allows you to do two key things for conversion:Display content uniquely tailored to this visitor (e.g. a fintech startup sees a case study for a Series B payment platform). Rank them against your ICP - so you know if an important buyer is currently browsing your pricing page.Alphie does the personalization in the chatbot only so far, personalizing answers and showing relevant bits of content, but potentially it could be possible to generate a whole personalized version of the landing page.The ICP ranking is super interesting, because it allows you to pull in a human rep while the buyer is still on the website - the moment of highest intent.We're currently running 16 pilots, 10 of them with YC companies.Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy to answer anything, especially on the identification accuracy tradeoffs and the privacy architecture. Video Demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjQwGfsR0k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjQwGfsR0k</a> Interactive demo: <a href="https://meetalphie.com/demo/app.html" rel="nofollow">https://meetalphie.com/demo/app.html</a>
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