[khaled_ismaeel]

This is really cool! The opposition of the AI hype, in this particular market, is something I strongly approve of. I guess most of us on HN have dealt with the unpleasant landscape of IT recruiting at some point, and hearing that such new approaches are being tried is a breath of fresh air.

What is gold for me is the business model that doesn't charge end-users, although I can imagine this might become problematic when the pendulum of the IT field's supply and demand for experience swings back.

I also like that the form doesn't ask for a PDF resume, meaning no more marketing and social engineering work for the ever-decreasing attention span of recruiters and ever-increasing automation in resume screenings. Further kudos for the straightforward interface and main form of the website.

Question though: how do you plan to combat spam applications? It doesn't seem that difficult to be _completely_ dishonest in one's application, which granted, will be detected in later screenings, but will probably shadow honest profiles.

Feature proposal: integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats (think Codeforces, LeetCode, HackTheBox, etc).

I hope this takes off well!

[tavoyne]

Preventing fake profiles is indeed challenging. We manually review every profile to ensure they are legitimate. We also offer everyone who signs up the opportunity to participate in a quick, optional interview (10-15 minutes). This allows us to refine the profile data with the individual and add a summary. We also use this to mark profiles as "verified," which ultimately makes them rank significantly higher. However, that approach is far from perfect. We need to add proper verification, but I’d hate to have something like LinkedIn, scanning your ID and all. Maybe we could integrate with an IdP that performs this check in a privacy-friendly way.

> integration with major competition platforms to import one's stats

That's an awesome idea. The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.

Thanks for your encouragements!!

[khaled_ismaeel]

> The tricky part is making sure candidates truly own these accounts.

Not sure about LeetCode and HackTheBox, but Codeforces' email account is public if I'm not mistaken. It also has an inbox feature, so you can perform some sort of email-like verification.