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Josh Goldstein
Sourcing.io is relaunching today (12/1/15) with a refreshed dataset and lots of UI improvements. We're also offering the Product Hunt community an exclusive and time-sensitive 20% discount at signup: https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Andrew Mason
@maccaw how does sourcing.io stack up against entelo / talentbin? What do they do better than you that they'd say justifies the price difference?
Alex MacCaw
Maker
@andrewmason good question! At the end of the day, it's a similar feature set, but we're just going after different ends of that market. That said, Entelo is a good product and has had a little more time to mature - I'd imagine they'd have more data on candidates.
Alex MacCaw
Maker
Well we're not really building a two sided market here, only one sided. We don't ask developers to sign up, only index their public work. As you can imagine, this makes our job considerably easier.
Alex MacCaw
Maker
It's a combination of networking, direct sales and content marketing. Since we're going for self-signups, and the price point is fairly low, we want to optimize for the third - content marketing. As such, we've built a blog and writing pieces that aim to be interesting to our target audience - startup founders and recruiters: http://blog.sourcing.io/
Ryan Hoover
@maccaw - although we're not focusing on growth with Product Hunt, content marketing (btw, I dislike that term as it sounds somewhat disingenuous) has been a strong acquisition driver. Do you have any tips to share with other founders? How do you come up with topics to write about?
Alex MacCaw
Maker
We essentially just choose topics that we'd be interested in reading about ourselves. I think there's a lot of scope for good articles around best-practices and advice in the recruiting arena - it's a fairly neglected topic.
Alex MacCaw
Maker
For example, I can share with you some of the drafts we're going to post over the next few weeks: * An engineer's guide to US visas * Elasticsearch primer * Why startups should choose B2B business models * A startup's guide to recruiting * The rise and fall of technical debt Plus a bunch more. To be honest content marketing (or blogging), is one of the most fun ways of growing your business.
Ethan Smith-Gillespie
@maccaw love the product. Looking forward to using it to add to our team very soon.
Ryan Hoover
@maccaw has a nice writeup about his new project here: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/sourcing
Alex MacCaw
Maker
Awesome to see Sourcing.io on Product Hunt. We're trying to create the kind of recruiting tools we always wanted when working our last jobs at Twitter and Stripe. If you've got any questions, ask away!
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