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Uh, yeah. So, um, my name's Mark.

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I'm, I'm-- I work with HiRey. I've been here for a few years, and here we have Rylee Chapin.

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Um, and yeah, we, we have been talking through the Hi network and testing it and, uh,

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yeah, he's... Hear a little bit about, about yourself, Rylee.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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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

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called Upwork. Uh, and it, it, it's similar, but it doesn't have the, the same usability.

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Um, so yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um-

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And then what's your, what's your background like in tech?

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What do you, uh, what have you been doing in, in tech these last couple years?

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Uh, so I've been, I've been doing a bit of game dev.

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Um, I've coded a couple different games just to really teach myself how to code.

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Um, and I've been doing a bit of QA work with different contracts.

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I've done-- I built some test suites using Playwright and things like that.

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Uh, and a bit of data entry more, more recently.

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Um, and yeah.

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Very cool. And, um, why don't you talk a little bit about what you, what you think about the HiRey network and,

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uh, what, uh, what type of things you'd, you'd use it for, and that type of stuff.

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Yeah. I think, I think HiRey is kind of, kind of what I've been looking for f- in Upwork, 'cause it's,

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it's much more user-friendly, and it's much more upfront about things.

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And you can kind of just connect with people without having to jump through a bunch of loops and go through a bunch

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of semantics, basically.

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Um-

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Mm-hmm.

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And it-- I, I kind of already brought this up, but the, the Tasks app in specific,

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I think I would use a ton, like every day, all day, basically, to schedule out my every day, basically.

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Um, and I think, I think being able to have somewhere where you can just go day to day and be like, "Hey,

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find me, find me a list of the jobs that I can apply to that best fit me," is super, super helpful.

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And it's much more accurate than any tor-- any type of algorithm is gonna be, 'cause it, it's

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able to kind of learn me as a person and also learn the clients as people and match us up better

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that way.

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Yeah. By using like kinda your AI that, that knows you and is accustomed to you, you think that'll help get you

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better, uh-

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Yeah

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... better connections, yeah?

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Yeah. Um, and I, I think the, the Who I Met will also, also be a

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really-- a good way to not only track people you meet, but I think it could also be a good

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security feature almost, to kind of have, in writing, the, the people who you've met

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and what, what those interactions have been.

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So then if, if there's something that needs to be disputed, that's all, that's all there in writing.

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Um, yeah.

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Yeah. Having that kinda paper trail a little bit, kinda like a-

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Yeah

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... a little receipt or something like that.

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Yeah. Um, and I think, I think something that s- that stands out right now

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is the, the functionality and the user-friendliness.

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I think that-- I think a lot of the UI can be ironed out over time.

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Um, and I think- I think as a, as a newer person in the professional tech

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world at least, it's, it's been really helpful in kind of showing me where to go and

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what I should be sharing about myself, and what clients are looking for,

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and just things like that.

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Could you elaborate on that a little bit?

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Uh, yeah. So it- I think being newer, newer in tech, I kind of don't,

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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.

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Um-

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Yeah

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... and so being able to, like, I even asked mine today, like, I'm mo- I'm just looking to get my foot

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in the door in, like, the computer industry.

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What can I do to help that?

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And it gave me, like, a list of job listings that were currently on the, on the HiRey website, and

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basically broke down what I should learn and what I should start working on to, to be, be

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able to give clients what they want basically.

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Oh, that's really cool.

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So your AI knew to use the context from the HiRey plugin to kind of inform the answer that it gave you about breaking

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into tech.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Wow, that's really cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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I think, I think the fact that everything is really open source and very clear about what it's doing as

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well makes it much more likely, I guess, for the broader user base

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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

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thing they don't understand and just kind of scoff at it or what- or whatever.

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But I think the fact that it, it kind of clearly breaks down why it's so helpful on the website makes it

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much easier to be like, "Okay, I'm gonna give this a try."

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Yeah. Yeah, I think without context, without the context of the website, that's kind of hard to, like, to kind

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of see what, you know, where the value lays in it and-

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... you know, what it is we're trying to do, what we, what we're trying to do with the tool.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Um, yeah, I think, I think overall the, the functionality is really

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good and most, for, for the most part there, uh, I kind of talked about,

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like, adding maybe a button on the website to edit your user profile from there.

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Uh, but other than that, it, it kind of, it really clearly breaks down what each different section is

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for, which is I think where it really stands out.

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So you're able to go to the client section and look for a job that'll fit you, and

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it's much more, I guess, personalized.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, having that kind of guidance to, um, adding that button to kind of take you directly

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to the client section, is that what you said?

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No, I was ... Sorry, I was saying that on, on the explore page, there's, there's a section dedicated to clients,

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um, and that, I don't know, I haven't really seen that many other places.

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Um-

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And I think it's something small, but it s- it is very, very big, if that makes sense.

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Yeah. No, that's a big difference, yeah, having kind of like ...

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Oh, I get what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, as opposed to, like, other common platforms, there's not really,

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like, that explore page, like, just totally available.

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Right. Like, things like Upwork, for example, there's like you can scroll through what you're given basically,

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and then that's it. Whereas this, you can kind of scroll through all the clients and look at a client's profile,

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like, by itself, which I, I know you can't do on Upwork.

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I don't know about other platforms.

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Uh, but yeah.

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Yeah, more transparency in the micro- in the, in the, uh, in the, the marketplace.

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I think, yeah, with Indeed I don't think they really let you. They don't let you have, like, a pro- full, full

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view of it.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah. Yeah, I don't think they do.

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Yeah, and I, I don't know, I don't know what the monetization looks like, but that I haven't had to buy

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anything or anything, and that's been also really pleasant.

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[laughs]

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Yeah, yeah.

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I've never, I've never seen that before.

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Yeah. Yeah, right now we're, we're totally free.

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Yeah, so to try and just kind of test it out and connect with people, you can do all that on our platform without-

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... any cost right now. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, cool, man.

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Well, thanks for taking a few minutes to kind of talk about yourself and talk about, talk about your experience

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with the platform. I'm really, really, really glad you, you liked it, and, uh, you know, the, that you kind of

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see the concepts, see the vision.

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And, uh-

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Yeah

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... 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.