rbatista19
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the story of an engineer (Product @ $7M ARR) turned into business (GM @ $65M ARR), and now getting back to building fidforward.com
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Comment · 2 months ago
cloro | Founding Engineer, Data Scientist, Founding Operations, Founding Marketer | REMOTE (EU timezones) | Full-time | https://cloro.dev/careers/
cloro is one API for search and AI answers. You send a query, we return Google, Google News, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Copilot results as structured fields: the answer, the sources it cited, and the position each result held. Teams use it to measure whether their brand shows up in AI answers, and to stop maintaining eight scrapers that break whenever a provider changes its markup overnight.
We are bootstrapped, remote across EU timezones, and small enough that every role below works directly with the founders.
Open roles:
* Founding Engineer | $80k-150k | backend and infra, heavy on large-scale collection. https://cloro.dev/careers/founding-engineer/
* Data Scientist | $60k-100k | turn our AI-search corpus into published research and track the engines as they change. https://cloro.dev/careers/data-scientist/
* Founding Operations | $50k-80k | finance, ops, marketing and product systems. An all-rounder role for someone who would rather build a system than run a task twice. https://cloro.dev/careers/founding-operations/
* Founding Marketer | $40k-70k | own SEO, content, and visibility in AI search. https://cloro.dev/careers/founding-marketer/
We work AI-native: Claude and Claude Code are in the loop daily across engineering, ops and marketing. Being genuinely good with these tools is part of the job rather than a bonus.
Comment · 3 months ago
Plenty of alternatives that scrape Google: SearchApi, Serper, cloro, etc.
Comment · 1 year ago
Totally. It feels like it is stuck in 2015.
Luckily we found a much better solution, something that actually sources with reasoning, and gets us real contact information (not crappy InMails).
Comment · 1 year ago
My co-founder and I spent hundreds of hours on UpWork:
- First, build an awesome profile (at least you think it is, but then you iterate 1000 times)
- Then, search for keywords (yeah, some of them are pretty bad, but after 20h you get which ones work)
- Now, time for filtering the bad posts, and the fake ones, and then finally you get a decent one - but it has 30 applicants already.
Does this sound familiar?
UpWork and others do a bad job at filtering and matching, so we scratched our own itch and built gigsent(.)com.
Our plan is screen, curate and help in the application. We only did the first two, so next is:
- Incorporate more sources (freelancer.com, reddit, etc.)
- Generate personalized application answers (still talking to users on how to best do this)
We are still in early stages so feedback is super appreciated.
P.S.: We would love to have shared this for free, but scraping + filtering + matching is SUPER expensive (we barely make any money out of each subscription).
Comment · 2 years ago
Nice!
The images take ages to load :(
Comment · 2 years ago
Really great point - the word "bureaucracy" was used more as a bait, but it might slander a few indeed.
Agree on the private sector as well, small steps!
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback!
It's a bit a chicken & egg problem: for the traffic to pick up and have contributors, we need to start by adding some content - some of which we have already gone through and fixed it, other not yet there.
We will get there over time, and work with providers that can also bring the quality up!
Comment · 2 years ago
Ahahah it’s either one of:
a) culturally late (the reminder is effective here), b) they don’t want to join (the reminder does little), c) they don’t like me :’(
Comment · 2 years ago
There is no proof that Google refuses AI content. As long as it is helpful, it ranks just like any other - proof are the websites using this tool and growing in rankings (screenshot on the website).
Comment · 2 years ago
“We all received an email that basically said, ‘It’s now $6B on $18B, and don’t complain because a lot of other people want in.” - Musk playing his game :)