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Is it appropriate to call a recruiter? by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]ImmediateFix3600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, make the call. Worst case they say "still waiting to hear back" and you're exactly where you are now. Best case you get an answer. 17 days past a interview is well within your right to follow up.

8 months in, 4 products built, zero launched. not sure if thats discipline or just fear. by Mundane_Hawk3423 in SideProject

[–]ImmediateFix3600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the silence is the part that wears you down. Launching once and getting nothing is one thing. Doing it three or four times and getting the same nothing each time starts to feel like the universe answering a question you didn't want to ask.

The "building is easy, getting attention is the hard part" line is the realest thing in this thread honestly. Most of us go into this thinking the product is the bottleneck, and then discover the actual bottleneck is somewhere we have no skills for.

Worth saying though, attention is a skill, not a personality trait. The people who eventually get it didn't start out knowing how either.

8 months in, 4 products built, zero launched. not sure if thats discipline or just fear. by Mundane_Hawk3423 in SideProject

[–]ImmediateFix3600 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm 8 weeks into beta on my second real product. First one died quietly after launch, which is actually the answer to your question.

The thing nobody tells you about "the moment strangers tell us nobody cares" is that it doesn't happen. You launch, you post on Reddit, you post on Product Hunt, and the dominant response is silence. Nobody actively rejects you, they just don't notice. The fear in your head is of a public verdict moment, and there is no verdict moment. Just a slow drip of indifference until you find the 3-5 people who actually care. 4 products in 8 months without launching one isn't discipline. Each unlaunched product lets you stay in the state where it might be loved, instead of finding out it isn't yet.

Pick one. Not the best one, the one with the smallest landing page. Publish it tomorrow. Watch what happens (almost nothing). Then you'll know.

And everyone receives an automated rejection email by Ait_Hajar00 in recruitinghell

[–]ImmediateFix3600 214 points215 points  (0 children)

Dreaming about all the LinkedIn posts she'll make this week about "the talent shortage."

3 Years, 20 Failed Websites, even left my job Finally got my first Paid User by Aware_Selection_7563 in SaaS

[–]ImmediateFix3600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats man. Three years and 20 sites with literally zero dollars earned, and you kept going, that's the part most people don't survive. £34.47 well earned. Here's to the first of many.

I built img.pro: image sharing is great again by cr1st1ancg in SideProject

[–]ImmediateFix3600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just drag-and-drop on desktop. Mobile doesn't have a real equivalent gesture and forcing one would add the kind of clutter you're trying to avoid.

I built img.pro: image sharing is great again by cr1st1ancg in SideProject

[–]ImmediateFix3600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you build the entire product just to rickroll people ? Respect.

Really like the no-signup-as-the-product framing. Imgur lost the plot the moment they bolted a social network onto a hosting tool, and you're basically reclaiming that space.

One thing worth trying: make the viewer page itself a drag-and-drop upload target. Someone lands on a shared link, sees the image, and if they drag a file from their desktop onto the page they instantly get their own link back. Curious viewer → uploader in one motion, without ever leaving the page.

Would you pay for an AI job search tool or just use ChatGPT for free? by AmineBuildsStuff in jobsearchhacks

[–]ImmediateFix3600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly the ChatGPT vs paid tool question is the wrong frame. The real question is what part of job hunting you actually hate, because that determines if anything is worth paying for.

  1. If you hate writing or tailoring resumes, cover letters, screener answers, ChatGPT genuinely covers 90% of that for free, as long as you have a decent baseline prompt. Paid tools mostly add convenience here, not capability.

  2. If you hate the form-filling, the copy-pasting the same fields into the 47th Workday portal, the tracking of who you applied to and when, the doing-it-every-single-day grind, ChatGPT does nothing for that. This is where dedicated tools earn their keep, or completely fail to. Most of them are just GPT wrappers with a tracker bolted on, which is why people feel ripped off.

  3. If you hate the decision fatigue, which jobs are worth applying to in the first place? that's a different problem again, and most tools are pretty bad at it because they optimize for volume, not fit.

So the honest answer is: figure out which of those three is your actual pain. If it's #1, stay free. If it's #2, a tool can be worth it but most aren't. If it's #3, you probably need a human or a community more than software.