I haven't even officially launched uberpact, so it's too new to have any kind of social proof yet (since I don't want to bullshit you by faking reviews). If you like the concept and pay a little trust forward, maybe you will be the first success story?

The success of every individual or agency depends on how reasonable their service rate is, and how comprehensively they fill their profile. These factors are outside of my control.

That being said, the system is 100% operational and I'm improving it relentlessly. The talent pool grows slowly, the matching algorithm gets better, emails are going out and people who are looking to hire are clicking them. It seems inevitable that eventually someone will be hired through uberpact.

What you get is not a guarantee, but a reasonably high, realistic chance that you will receive high-quality job offers frequently. All that for the price of a pizza (or 2-3 coffees). The return value for software engineers is usually a minimum $6k+/month job. In fact, the day someone gets hired and I get a review, I will 10x the price tag.

I feel like this approach can benefit talent and business more than the status quo of job boards or recruiters. Let me explain.

Traditional hiring approaches bring a few disadvantages to all parties. For example:

• Job boards: The businesses get flooded with applications, and it's difficult to find the best talent among them. In the end, that's why you usually don't get any feedback when you are rejects: Because the business just doesn't have the capacity to give individual justification (and often you just get filtered out because you have or don't have a certain keyword in your application)
• Recruitment agencies / talent networks: This works relatively well for finding the right people, but the fee is just too high. Often, businesses need to pay up to 25% of your salary on top to the recruiter / talent network. And that's usually not a one-time fee, but an ongoing charge. That's not only bad for the hiring business, but also for you: If the business has a certain budget for a role, that means they will have to pay you less to pay the recruitment agency their share.

The alternative is to come from the other direction: Instead of charging the business, maximize the visibility of the talent side. That includes promoting every talent to as many businesses as possible (free for the businesses).

Unfortunately, it seems like the paywalling works mutually exclusive. If I take the route to hide names and contact methods in exchange a payment from the business, I am doing you as a talent a disservice by hiding you by default.

By charging the talent side, I can broadcast them freely and prevent hurtful hiring fees to both sides.