Hey makers! I’m one of two people working on Hyperscreen AI, an AI that does mock technical interviews with you so you can pass more tech screens.

I shut my YC startup down a year ago and had to look for a job afterward. Even though I had interned at and landed multiple FAANG offers out of college, I spent almost 6 months looking for a job after my company failed. I was fortunate enough to get technical screens due to my network, but I failed many of them because I didn’t have anybody to practice with. All of my friends either already had jobs and weren’t looking, or were still working on their startups. It was incredibly lonely to grind LeetCode in my parents’ house for 8+ hours a day, 6 days a week, for months.

I eventually got fed up with not having anyone to practice interviewing with, so I built a hacky voice bot on top of the latest LLMs to practice with. I finally landed a SWE job at a great late-stage startup. If someone with my background struggled this much to land a job, I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for many of the people who aren’t as privileged and have fewer interview opportunities to begin with. I went to a Tier 3 college when the market was still good, and in my best year I was only able to get phone screens with 4 companies. With so few chances, you need to be perfect and every edge you can get while prepping helps.

My friend and I went to a hackathon a few months ago to build a more fleshed-out version of the tool I built for myself. After a few rounds of iteration with initial customers, it’s finally ready.

With Hyperscreen, you get:

- 🧑‍💻a consistent experience with up to 60 minute interviews with our AI interviewer

- ⁉️ access to hundreds of problems from 20+ companies and over a dozen categories

- ✍️detailed feedback after each interview so you can improve

- 📊analytics across all of your interviews, so you know exactly which technical and non-technical areas you need to practice in future mocks with our AI

We charge $9.75 for 60 minutes of interview time. The first 100 people to retweet / comment the email you sign up with on our Twitter launch post will free credits to try it out.

We’ve had some people ask if they can do the same thing with ChatGPT or for free. So we figured this would be a good time to break down the alternatives. We know that what we provide may not be suited for everyone and want users to make an informed decision.

ChatGPT: To keep it short, it just doesn’t replicate the same environment and doesn’t respond the same way a real interviewer would.
Build it yourself: We are currently offering this service at breakeven after a lot of optimization using our model and infra vendors. You can build it out yourself, but chances are you would be paying the same amount.
Human Mock Interview: The average cost of a FAANG mock interview is around $100 - $200/hour. You can find them cheaper than this, but we have yet to see a service where you can interview with a human for cheaper than $9.75/hour. If you have friends who can interview you for free, that’s great!

With that being said, we really hope you like it and we're excited for any feedback you all have!