Hola fellow indie hackers!
I’d like to (finally) graduate into an indie hacker by showing you Leveled.co !!
As a latina engineer, finding a place where diversity, respect and equality are valued (or at least trying to be...) by the company and the people I work with is important for me. Two friends and I started Leveled at a hackathon, to make it easier to find a company with a good culture to work at.
Is this something you would use?
What other aspect of a company would you like to rate?
Should we add written reviews?
All the feedback is welcome :D
Thank You! Danke! Obrigado! Gracias!
At the home page I see
based on 3 ratingsor sometimesbased on 5 ratingsbut when I click on the actual page it says that it is based on the survey of 1 or 2 people. That is confusing. I thought that the rating in the home page was the number of people that actually reviewed the company.Thanks for the feedback. We are working on making that stat more clear and will be available quick :))
Hey Daniela,
Very cool product! Just checked it out and wanted to share some feedback so you can make the product even better.
Is this something you would use? Yes in theory. The ratings on Glassdoor are important, but I have to read review-by-review in order to try and piece together the company culture. Leveled.co organizes those attributes so I can sort and filter based on my own preferences.
What other aspect of a company would you like to rate? How much of the team is remote versus on site.
Should we add written reviews? Yes. To me, the numerical rating is nice, but I also need context. It's the same when I shop on Amazon. I'll look at 1 star ratings and then make a judgement call whether or not I trust that review based on the context.
Question: how are you planning to incentivize people to leave reviews?
Good luck!
-Jonathan
Hey I think I saw this a long time ago on hackernews. Glad to see how far it has come since.
Minor feedback: It would be great to have a country filter on the search page.
Edit: I got it confused with https://www.keyvalues.com/
Great project nonetheless.
Hey Daniela,
Congrats on launching!
The site looks great :)
Maybe check out @lynnetye 's keyvalues.com for a great example of someone doing an awesome job working on the same/a similar problem :)
How do you (or will you) monetise?
Good luck!
Thanks Louis!
Yes! We ran into keyvalues.com a couple of months after the hackathon. It served as an encouragement to continue working on Leveled, like we were onto a problem that other people were also trying to address. :D
We are still thinking of ways to monetize it, probably adding a job board where companies pay to post/promote open positions. We still want to increase our audience and add some more features before doing that though.
Leveled is based in Vancouver? That’s so cool. So am I.
We really gotta get an IndieHacker coffee meetup going here. Lots of us from this awesome city.
Yes we are in Van City! I'm def down to meet other IH in the area. We could make a slack channel to keep all in touch?
Congrats on shipping (and your graduation)!
I like the UI of it. Any plans on making money? Got a fair amount of reviews on there already. How'd you pull that off? Finding employees on Twitter and notifying them about their company being listed and asking if it's correct (if not, might be nice marketing tip)?
How do you ensure reviews are honest, correct and precise? If possible? Views are so personal, skewed, triggered often by tiniest misstep.
I'll keep an eye on this. Might share it through my newest business, Muna—fits well.
Thank you!
We are still thinking about ways we could monetize it, although we want to improve it and get more people to use it before we get to that. One thing we thought of was having a job posts section.
Leveled got an honourable mention at the hackathon, so we were able to get some reviews from there. We also shared with our network , family, friends, co-workers + their coworkers. We also submitted to some beta list websites and that got us a few more reviews. Thank you for the marketing suggestion, will def try that!
I think its hard to find correctness and preciseness (hopefully some honesty yes) when it comes to people's reviews about anything...? It's all about personal experiences, influenced by different perspectives and backgrounds, but I think Leveled's value comes from exactly that. I think the reviews from people that you can identify yourself with can give you a better sense of that company's culture. We do plan to add another level of verification, like linking to the users LinkedIn account, however right now we are relying on people's good faith heh..
Thank you again for your tips! let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions. Good luck with Muna too!
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Leveled's focus is on company culture. I think Glassdoor gives a high level overview of a company, we try to give it a more personalized touch to it. The true value of Leveled is that you don’t have to rely on averages from big sample sizes.
On a traditional platform, even if there were 100 ratings for a company, what would it tell you when the average rating for Women Friendly is 9/10? Those ratings could come from 90 men rating it as 10, and 10 women rating it as 1. In my case, these women’s reviews are more relevant.
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