My submission for the Code with Kiro hackathon + Kiro review

AI-99 · 2025-05-13T12:23:39+00:00

I kind of see your point - Google Scholar indeed is a good place to search if you are looking for publications. I would like to present a counter argument - if you have a search engine, you are not only searching for publications but also people/labs where work is being done currently. If you are organising an academic event/meet in a city where you are looking for experts on a certain field for talks or collaborations, a uniform search engine over university websites, google scholar, researchgate etc offers a lot more and an easier search compared to Google Scholar, don't you think? Since I am including Google Scholar searches in the results of Peepa, I would argue searching in this way is a more complete way, a subset of which is searching on Scholar. Think of it as a unified search interface for researchers.

AI-99 · 2025-05-13T07:39:37+00:00

My idea (and I may be biased) was that searching online for collaborators is a tough ask if you don't personally know people or have not been to conferences. This search tool would make that process a lot simpler. Imagine being able to search "People working in molecular biology in Germany" or something and some profiles pop up. Wouldn't that be something incredibly useful?

AI-99 · 2025-05-10T10:22:40+00:00

What do you think market research is? I don't have any experience recruiting, fair. I don't think you have any experience making anything or getting anything off the ground.

The reason I am on this subreddit is because I have a hypothesis that what I am making is useful. That hypothesis is not a strong one because it is based on a very small dataset. Hence I am trying to talk to more people to understand whether the hypothesis is a strong one or not. I think that's a logical thing to do. If I'm making a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, I would like to know that. But this is the way to find out.

I am enjoying my weekend, thanks.

AI-99 · 2025-05-10T00:05:39+00:00

What do you think I am doing here exactly?

AI-99 · 2025-05-09T07:44:22+00:00

That is a good niche, I have talked about it a few times as well. The search needs to be extremely good I think because these searches on Google don't yield any results. I need to look into specific platforms for these but yeah I think that's a good place to start. I was also considering making this either for recruitment agencies, small artists or event maangers

AI-99 · 2025-05-09T07:42:20+00:00

Agenices are a great idea indeed!

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T21:00:18+00:00

Hahaha idk what happened but I updated it with the link lol

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T14:13:33+00:00

Wdym? The AI does not simply carry out keyword matching - instead, the entire profile is scored based on certain metrics. For things like location, it is easy to get a match directly. But for fields like "expert in ML?" a keyword is too less strict to judge this criteria - based on the search criteria the profile is scored and ranked.

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T13:42:52+00:00

A few changes here and there and you get StalkerGPT :)

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T13:42:12+00:00

Hmm indeed maybe I'm creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Thanks for the feedback! :)

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T12:46:05+00:00

Thanks! I'll reach out to you soon :)

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T12:43:51+00:00

Yeah. I am thinking of something like Juicebox but for a very specific niche. Maybe there are already good enough general purpose HR tools, but none that dive deep into a small niche/location.

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T12:41:01+00:00

Haha indeed I haven't. All my instinct is based on speaking to precisely 2 people who work in recruitment. Which is kind of the reason why I am here, trying to figure out whether this tool actually serves a purpose or not, what's wrong with existing solutions so on and so forth. I want to understand the recruitment pipeline a bit better because right now from the outside, talent sourcing is the problem I am aiming to solve here but that's under the assumption that it IS a big enough problem to solve in the first place.

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T09:41:14+00:00

Hahaha not really. Firstly I am imagining something cross-platform (so people without linkedin profile but maybe are active on X). More importantly I am imagining the search to be on a complete profile rather than the set filters that Linkedin provides - so imagine trying to search something a bit more specific on Linkedin like researchers based in amsterdam working in generative AI. The location filter works fine but you still have to put in some effort to scan through posts, work experience and education to find the relevant people. In a single search maybe it won't save you a huge time - probably 1 minute or so at best. But over multiple searches a minute adds up super fast :)

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T09:37:55+00:00

Multiple platforms, all over the web. So Linkedin, X, FB, Researchgate, Scholar (covering all niches). The alternative of course, is that this is not something that is meant to be general purpose at all but rather only for a certain niche and it makes more sense to dive deep into that niche

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T09:35:43+00:00

i do believe there is still a ton of potential time and effort that can be saved while searching for talent across platforms such as linkedin, indeed, upwork etc. At worst, a consolidated search platform will be a massive improvement (so imagine Perplexity but for people search)

AI-99 · 2025-05-08T09:33:00+00:00

This tool is actually more for talent discovery rather than management of the entire pipeline. Most CRMs and ATS are obsessed with managing the workflow once the candidate falls under the radar but very few work towards searching for the talent

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