<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redmattred</author><text>One potential idea is a &amp;quot;pay it forward&amp;quot; model where you&amp;#x27;re asked to pay for someone else using the service, but only after you have successfully found a job.&lt;p&gt;When a job seeker signs up they would see that their subscription was paid by someone else and it will instantly build goodwill&amp;#x2F;stickiness for the product.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s generally hard to monetize from job seekers since they don&amp;#x27;t have an income in many cases, but many would be happy to once they land a job and may even choose to buy a subscription for personal friends&amp;#x2F;family who are looking for a job. Similarly companies could also pay to buy X # of subscriptions for job seekers to attract people to their jobs and build goodwill&amp;#x2F;positive employment branding.&lt;p&gt;Could make for a good viral loop, could drum up some great PR, and help a lot of people</text><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>How do you plan on making money? My concern would be that you need to be extremely upfront about what data you&amp;#x27;re collecting and if you&amp;#x27;re selling it back to these companies whom the person interviewed with (even if anonymized). This is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; personal exchange between an employee and employer that could have significant impact on employment negotiations. For example, I might not want employer A, knowing that I&amp;#x27;m also interviewing with employer B&amp;#x2F;C&amp;#x2F;D, unless I choose to use it for negotiation. This could be used to target folks into lower paying jobs if they don&amp;#x27;t have prospects, multiple offers, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to be harsh here or blow up your idea. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a totally free app. I&amp;#x27;m not sure. But, if you are selling user data, you could be inadvertently increasing companies bargaining power through hidden knowledge of what someone is doing too. If a company uses this added data on me, and gets me to take an offer that&amp;#x27;s 30k less per year, and I stay there 4 years, that ends up costing me 120k over 4 years (30k*4y) all for using an interview note taking app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place</title><url>https://afterinterview.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Malic</author><text>Honestly, if this were to take off, I could see Microsoft&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn having some acquisition interest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>How do you plan on making money? My concern would be that you need to be extremely upfront about what data you&amp;#x27;re collecting and if you&amp;#x27;re selling it back to these companies whom the person interviewed with (even if anonymized). This is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; personal exchange between an employee and employer that could have significant impact on employment negotiations. For example, I might not want employer A, knowing that I&amp;#x27;m also interviewing with employer B&amp;#x2F;C&amp;#x2F;D, unless I choose to use it for negotiation. This could be used to target folks into lower paying jobs if they don&amp;#x27;t have prospects, multiple offers, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to be harsh here or blow up your idea. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a totally free app. I&amp;#x27;m not sure. But, if you are selling user data, you could be inadvertently increasing companies bargaining power through hidden knowledge of what someone is doing too. If a company uses this added data on me, and gets me to take an offer that&amp;#x27;s 30k less per year, and I stay there 4 years, that ends up costing me 120k over 4 years (30k*4y) all for using an interview note taking app.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place</title><url>https://afterinterview.com/</url></story>