Sam Reid

Smart founders with a thoughtful new take on dating apps.

Hey, I'm Sam, and I'm part of the Swiftype team over at Elastic (the company behind Elasticsearch). Great to hear about other companies building site search solutions with Elasticsearch! While I'm biased, I think most people would agree that Elasticsearch is a great technology for building relevant and highly scalable hosted search. If anyone is interested in learning more about building search...

One of my favorite features of the 500 Miles web app is the ability to bookmark companies as favorites. This enables me to build a comprehensive list of the companies I'm interested in and quickly view lots of insights about them. I also like that I can unfavorite companies as my interests change and that my favorites inform the recommendations 500 Miles gives me. Favorites can be accessed in...

Sounds like a cool idea. There's actually a very similar free app that already exists called 500 Miles which connects students and young professionals to startups. @thekenyeung wrote a piece on 500 Miles earlier this year: http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/27/500-miles-uses-big-data-to-find-you-a-meaningful-career/, 500 Miles also has 721 upvotes: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/500-miles

My favorite thing about 500 Miles for Employers is that it provides precision and quality in candidate search coupled with an excellent experience for job seekers.