🪄 Hidden Signals in Job Boards

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The Spells Master is back!

Welcome to the 15th issue.

Today's topics:

1. Hidden Signals in Job Boards

2. A hack to never watch long YouTube videos ever again

3. One recommended video that breaks down Retweet Groups on Twitter/X

Hidden Signals in Job Boards

Most things in life have signal if you can spot it.

If you can't spot it, its just noise.

Today, we'll cover signals in Job Boards that most people miss.

Rocketship startups

If you want to find which companies are growing fast, stalk job boards.

Increase in headcount is a decent indicator that you are watching a rocketship startup.

If you are an employee that wants big money, you should join such startups as they are looking to hire fast.

If you have a company in a similar niche, then you can exploit their growth hacks.

Remember, good growth hacks rarely last.

Use them before they get stale.

That's why its a good idea to keep an eye on job boards in your niche. Totally doable with code or even no-code.

My First Million covered Sara's List.

Basically, the idea is the host's wife Sara came up with a list of 12 established startups who had the potential to 5-10x over the next 5 years.

One of the easiest ways to become a millionaire as an employee.

Highly recommend listening to the podcast.

Find Competitor's Roadmaps

Job Boards are the best way to get exposed to the roadmaps of your competitors.

Look at who they are hiring for, what are their titles?

They often expose where your priorities should be.

Also, check their LinkedIn (or AngelList) of your competitor's company to see their employees.

By looking at their profiles, you can get an idea of what they are good at. Sometimes the employees tweet stuff they do, blog about it, go on podcasts, or make videos on YouTube or TikTok. Or they do freelance.

You can learn the basics of Social Engineering and stumble upon them at an event to pry for more info. Yes, the Crypto Queen that stole $4.5 billion recommends it in her unlisted YouTube video.

This is a good way to understand what their next move is.

And this trick is even recommended by big Growth Teams like Demand Curve (which advises most YC startups) to do Competitor Search.

I don't think they recommend Social Engineering even though its an incredibly useful asset to have.

The good thing about Social Engineering is nobody actually knows that they have been fooled until its too late.

At one point, I got fooled by a 16-year old girl who got me to give my info so she could look me up. I thought I wasn't giving away any info as I only said my first name and my college name but well, that was enough info to plot the trail online.

Women are really good at this since they have been trained to never trust anyone so they use this tactic to verify. There's a reason military uses sparrows in espionage. Look it up.

In short, you get to play 4D Chess and understand your competitors next move.

I bet the Big Tech does it by keeping an eye on patents of their competitors.

Sell your SaaS

Job boards have titles they are hiring for.

If your SaaS solves that problem, you can immediately reach out to that company with a personalized email to save them $100k/year on salary with your $10k/year SaaS.

Totally doable for lots of SaaS now thanks to AI.

Consider the SaaS AI2SQL that converts Natural Language to SQL queries.

You can find Database Engineers listed as title in Job Boards and then find that company's email to get them to use your product.

While AI can't replace a Database Engineer fully, it can equip the ones that are already there to improve their productivity.

Who knows they might not need more Database Engineers at all.

This is a simple example but you can extrapolate that to other niches like selling Krea AI Subscriptions to companies hiring Graphic Designers and Animators.

Since most job boards are public for SEO, you can easily write a scraper that automates the whole process. This shouldn't take more than an hour.

This works for consultants too. And you can also provide this scraper as a SaaS on its own to freelancers and agencies.

A hack to never watch long YouTube videos ever again

Long YouTube videos are nice but in a 40-minute long video, you only have 3-5 banger insights.

And that's if the video is really good.

Sometimes you watch a video and you just want notes.

Instead of taking them manually, use AI.

You only need 2 steps.

1. Go to YouTube Transcript and paste your YouTube video link. Now, copy the transcript to clipboard.

2. Copy and paste the transcript in Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to summarize it.

I use this prompt:

summarize the entire transcript file. do not include timestamps. make sure not to emit anything. include key points with headlines. go into detail on each step. i want you to include every single detail. dont give me a birds-eye summary. make it in-depth so i dont have to watch the video. i pay $20/mo. please give me a great summary.

You can adjust it to your liking.

Context length is not an issue in Google's Gemini and it won't be an issue even on free versions soon since 5 AI companies are competing for market share so they'll mostly give it away for free.

You can also use YouTube Summarizer to see summaries directly for free. The summaries are not good because open-source AI models aren't as good yet.

Note: You should definitely watch the video and then take a summary to see if it covers all points. I have found it gives 80% gist which is helpful if you already watched the video but loses key insights. That might not be true for paid models like GPT-4 or Claude 3 Opus as I only use the free version for now.

One recommended video that breaks down Retweet Groups on Twitter/X

Retweet Groups are needed if you want your content to be seen.

At first, you have to engage with other accounts to grow on Social.

Then Social Media helps you grow by recommending you.

After you reach a certain follower count, it throttles your reach.

The only way to get out of that reach is to get similar size accounts commenting on each other's posts.

There are other tactics too like switching from posting tweets to replying more so you get more reach.

Everything is covered in this short video.

You can try the above technique to get a summary quickly.

Tweet of the day

Extremely true.

Don't be someone's 10th Cold Email.

Be someone's first.

People get jaded after a while so they stop replying to anything that feels like work.

If you can give enough value in the first opener, they will atleast take a look.

But most times, they just ignore you.

Rabbit Holes

1. Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner - "If you want ants to come, put sugar on the floor." ~ Charlie Munger. If you can work on incentives, don't work on anything else.

2. Meme Mapping - There are no original ideas. Everything is a remix.

3. Write for Yourself, and Wisdom Will Follow - This article basically explains why you should write with cartoon diagrams. Easily one of the most profound articles I've ever read. There is a reason Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Franklin are a huge proponent of writing. Because writing is thinking.

Until next time,

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