@rogerdickey Thanks for the Hunt and kind words Roger! As mentioned, we've been tackling the "job hunt" through coaching for a while now. After you talk to hundreds upon hundreds of people personally, you find patterns. People, every day, every week, are making decisions that affect their career trajectory. We would always think "wow, If they had know this one piece of information 4 months ago, they'd be in such a good position now." Boost is a service that helps you make the smartest decisions all the time. It's your own personal advisor -- powered by both real people and technology -- that understands your unique situation, taps into the data of the world, and gives you professional superpowers. We invite you all to try it out and let us know what you think. :)

@andyeskridge Absolutely! We are actually quite interested to see how boost will do in other places that are less flooded with technology. We are particularly interested in seeing how the product will do in the midwest :)

@andyeskridge Nice! I am from Austin :D. Moved to San Francisco a few years ago to do the startup grind! (Lead Engineer here at Boost)

@bentossell Yup, completely custom. Built ReactJS and GraphQL

@bentossell To go into more detail, we've effectively built a combination help desk & "load balancer for expertise." This helps us source the best advice very quickly from a network of hundreds of top people. Our trained career coaches help ensure every conversation is completely personal, 100% accurate, and effective.

@named_none It's a combination. The AI is designed to multiply human effectiveness and automate some aspects, but not run the conversations itself. Think of Boost as an Android :D

@pgayed Thanks!

@derek78756 Great question! Topics can be thought of as complete AI-augmented conversations that happen over time help clients solve a particular problem with their careers. There isn't any sort of matching system. Topics occur between the client and the Boost platform, which is powered by a mixture of dedicated coaching team, a network of industry experts, and AI.

@eboy We see your signup, Eric! Happy to let you know you're going to be one of the first Product Hunt users to get assistance. 😊

@dredurr 😎 Thanks!

@tarungangwani Sure! The AI engine is designed to augment the capabilities of our coaching staff by injecting relevant information, providing sentiment analysis, and performing lookup of relevant resources for the communication between coaches and customers. Less work + more effective coaching.

@justin_ezor Thanks Justin! 👊 - Goal tracking and encouragement is something we think about often... it's hard to pitch people on it though. We do think there is a huge opportunity for the advisor to play a more pro-active coaching role. Love the idea. - We manually recruit experts. We have people who work on SpaceX's Falcon9, Google's Self-Driving Cars, and experts in open source. - Experts do get paid to provide assistance. The amount varies depending on *how* they help, but if you do the calculations it usually comes out to about $50/hr.

@zachtratar so dope!! How long have you guys been working on this? And what was your original inspiration?

@justin_ezor that's quite a long story... maybe over coffee sometime, else I'll write a huge wall of text and people are going to spawn a magical downvote button out of necessity. ;) We've been working on the coaching/advisement/mentorship problem for about 2 1/2 years now. It's gone through many, many iterations -- and that's how we ended up with this awesome product. :)

@andrewomatic Our specialties are definitely in Software Engineering, Design, and Product Management. That being said, we're currently working with experts to design coaching playbooks for other fields rapidly. Thanks for the question!

@greg_schechter Thanks Greg!

@_davisnz We're going to be inviting relatively quickly, and will probably prioritize all signups coming from Product Hunt. :)

@shri @mnassif Whoot! Glad you love it ;)

@shri It was nice chatting with you! ^_^

@shri @mnassif Woot! Glad you like it ;)

@ashtube Woot! Great to hear :)

@riptide360 Hey Stephen! Boost does this extremely well. In addition to being able to provide expert guidance, Boost can connect you with experts for mock interviews, resume review, and more. It can also get you introductions into startups and larger tech companies. For this kind of thing I'd definitely recommend the "Achiever" package.