Freelance developer and QA tester exploring tech careers, using HiRey's AI-driven job matching and transparent client marketplace as an alternative to Upwork

Hello. Rylee. Uh, cool. So, um, for-- I think the way we can do this profile is, uh, we can just have a quick conversation about who you are, what you do in tech, and, uh, what, what you'd use the HiRey network for, and then what your experience is with it, and why you think it's a cool idea. And then- Sounds good. Yeah, we'll just do that. Sweet. All right. So- Just go whenever? Uh, yeah. So, um, my name's Mark. I'm, I'm-- I work with HiRey. I've been here for a few years, and here we have Rylee Chapin. Um, and yeah, we, we have been talking through the Hi network and testing it and, uh, yeah, he's... Hear a little bit about, about yourself, Rylee. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I'm Rylee. Um, I've been kind of doing freelance work for a bit now, and I've been working on a, a similar platform called Upwork. Uh, and it, it, it's similar, but it doesn't have the, the same usability. Um, so yeah. Yeah. Um- And then what's your, what's your background like in tech? What do you, uh, what have you been doing in, in tech these last couple years? Uh, so I've been, I've been doing a bit of game dev. Um, I've coded a couple different games just to really teach myself how to code. Um, and I've been doing a bit of QA work with different contracts. I've done-- I built some test suites using Playwright and things like that. Uh, and a bit of data entry more, more recently. Um, and yeah. Very cool. And, um, why don't you talk a little bit about what you, what you think about the HiRey network and, uh, what, uh, what type of things you'd, you'd use it for, and that type of stuff. Yeah. I think, I think HiRey is kind of, kind of what I've been looking for f- in Upwork, 'cause it's, it's much more user-friendly, and it's much more upfront about things. And you can kind of just connect with people without having to jump through a bunch of loops and go through a bunch of semantics, basically. Um- Mm-hmm. And it-- I, I kind of already brought this up, but the, the Tasks app in specific, I think I would use a ton, like every day, all day, basically, to schedule out my every day, basically. Um, and I think, I think being able to have somewhere where you can just go day to day and be like, "Hey, find me, find me a list of the jobs that I can apply to that best fit me," is super, super helpful. And it's much more accurate than any tor-- any type of algorithm is gonna be, 'cause it, it's able to kind of learn me as a person and also learn the clients as people and match us up better that way. Yeah. By using like kinda your AI that, that knows you and is accustomed to you, you think that'll help get you better, uh- Yeah ... better connections, yeah? Yeah. Um, and I, I think the, the Who I Met will also, also be a really-- a good way to not only track people you meet, but I think it could also be a good security feature almost, to kind of have, in writing, the, the people who you've met and what, what those interactions have been. So then if, if there's something that needs to be disputed, that's all, that's all there in writing. Um, yeah. Yeah. Having that kinda paper trail a little bit, kinda like a- Yeah ... a little receipt or something like that. Yeah. Um, and I think, I think something that s- that stands out right now is the, the functionality and the user-friendliness. I think that-- I think a lot of the UI can be ironed out over time. Um, and I think- I think as a, as a newer person in the professional tech world at least, it's, it's been really helpful in kind of showing me where to go and what I should be sharing about myself, and what clients are looking for, and just things like that. Could you elaborate on that a little bit? Uh, yeah. So it- I think being newer, newer in tech, I kind of don't, don't really know where to go. Like, there's not, there's not a good roadmap for this is how you get into computers. Um- Yeah ... and so being able to, like, I even asked mine today, like, I'm mo- I'm just looking to get my foot in the door in, like, the computer industry. What can I do to help that? And it gave me, like, a list of job listings that were currently on the, on the HiRey website, and basically broke down what I should learn and what I should start working on to, to be, be able to give clients what they want basically. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah. So your AI knew to use the context from the HiRey plugin to kind of inform the answer that it gave you about breaking into tech. Yeah, exactly. Wow, that's really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um. Yeah. I think, I think the fact that everything is really open source and very clear about what it's doing as well makes it much more likely, I guess, for the broader user base to use it, 'cause I think, I think with how a lot of people view AI right now, they're- they'll see an AI thing they don't understand and just kind of scoff at it or what- or whatever. But I think the fact that it, it kind of clearly breaks down why it's so helpful on the website makes it much easier to be like, "Okay, I'm gonna give this a try." Yeah. Yeah, I think without context, without the context of the website, that's kind of hard to, like, to kind of see what, you know, where the value lays in it and- Yeah ... you know, what it is we're trying to do, what we, what we're trying to do with the tool. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, I think, I think overall the, the functionality is really good and most, for, for the most part there, uh, I kind of talked about, like, adding maybe a button on the website to edit your user profile from there. Uh, but other than that, it, it kind of, it really clearly breaks down what each different section is for, which is I think where it really stands out. So you're able to go to the client section and look for a job that'll fit you, and it's much more, I guess, personalized. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, having that kind of guidance to, um, adding that button to kind of take you directly to the client section, is that what you said? No, I was ... Sorry, I was saying that on, on the explore page, there's, there's a section dedicated to clients, um, and that, I don't know, I haven't really seen that many other places. Um-

And I think it's something small, but it s- it is very, very big, if that makes sense. Yeah. No, that's a big difference, yeah, having kind of like ... Oh, I get what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, as opposed to, like, other common platforms, there's not really, like, that explore page, like, just totally available. Right. Like, things like Upwork, for example, there's like you can scroll through what you're given basically, and then that's it. Whereas this, you can kind of scroll through all the clients and look at a client's profile, like, by itself, which I, I know you can't do on Upwork. I don't know about other platforms. Uh, but yeah. Yeah, more transparency in the micro- in the, in the, uh, in the, the marketplace. I think, yeah, with Indeed I don't think they really let you. They don't let you have, like, a pro- full, full view of it. Yeah. Um, yeah. Yeah, I don't think they do. Yeah, and I, I don't know, I don't know what the monetization looks like, but that I haven't had to buy anything or anything, and that's been also really pleasant. [laughs] Yeah, yeah. I've never, I've never seen that before. Yeah. Yeah, right now we're, we're totally free. Yeah, so to try and just kind of test it out and connect with people, you can do all that on our platform without- Yeah ... any cost right now. Yeah. Yeah. Well, cool, man. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes to kind of talk about yourself and talk about, talk about your experience with the platform. I'm really, really, really glad you, you liked it, and, uh, you know, the, that you kind of see the concepts, see the vision. And, uh- Yeah ... yeah. I'll, uh, I'll, I'll trim this up, and then we'll put it on our, on kind of our featured page. And, uh, yeah. And we'll, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll talk more about, uh, everything else through our channel. And I, I'm gonna go ahead and add you on LinkedIn too. Awesome. Yeah. Sweet. Thank you so much. Yeah, no problem, man. All right, you have a good one now. Take care. Yeah, have a great rest of your day, Mark. Thank you. You too.

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