Show HN: Zee – AI that interviews everyone so you only meet the best
zeeda.comHey HN, I'm Dave one of the co-founders of Zeeda.
After scaling my last company (Voxpopme) from 0 to $10M ARR and hiring 100+ people, I lived through the worst part of hiring: posting a role on LinkedIn, getting 200+ applications, and drowning in resumes where 80% are completely unqualified.
So we built Zee - an AI that conducts actual 20-30 minute first-round interviews (not just screening) with every applicant, then gives you a shortlist of the 5-10% actually worth your time.
We're also solving stakeholder misalignment too before Zee interviews any applicants he talks to key stakeholders about the role to go beyond basic job descriptions.
Would love HN's feedback, especially from fellow founders who've felt this pain.
I don't do AI interviews and I'd guess other qualified senior engineers wouldn't also so your tool is a recipe to hire low quality developers
There are a couple problems that come to mind. One is that a lot of people aren’t interested or willing to take a one sided interview with a machine. This is more true for candidates who have more options, and they’ll feel disrespected by this. The other is that I doubt this would be accurate or any more useful than an automated resume screen. It’s worth going through this from the candidate’s perspective rather than from the hiring side.
So what do you do when the context engineer rolls up into chat and jailbreaks the system prompt that was designed? Do you just hire them on the spot? This literally isn’t what LLMs are designed for nor are they good at.
This is neat. Last couple of months, at least 3 people asked me how to select 5 candidate for interview. When we post there are more than 300-500 resumes. If it works as advertised, you will make it.
Btw, don't care about haters, keep building