refurby

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  Log in into refurby with your LinkedIn account.

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  View opportunities that you're in active referral conversations about.

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  Add an opportunity

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  Choose the best-match connections in your network to broadcast the opportunity to.

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  Broadcast the opportunity to the potential referrals, with the option of anonymity

Refurby

Refer your friends to the job they want via blind in-network referrals.

The problem

Finding the perfect people in your network to refer for opportunities requires a lot of overhead. Opportunities come up to refer people in our network all the time, but it's rare that we'll blast a listserv or search LinkedIn for every request. We need an efficient but high-touch way to bridge these missed referral connections.

Our solution

• Find the high-potential referrals in your network with Refurby's model
• Broadcast opportunities over text to people who will actually be interested
• Optionally anonymize your recommendations to people you don't want to spam

Refurby allows you to send opportunities over text to high-potential referrals in your network. Our ML model surfaces the first- and second-degree connections who would be the best fit for the role. Choose the people who you want to broadcast the opportunity to from Refuby's curated list. Then, kick off a conversation about the opportunity with the potential referral with an optionally-anonymous text message.

When we're connecting the right people to opportunities they are actually interested in, the likelihood of a successful referral is high. Our friends find the jobs they want, companies find team members who fit, and we get rewarded for making the connection.

How we built it

• Text integration via Twilio
• High-potential referral ML model built with Python / Pandas
• Typescript / React for a delightful frontend
• Python / Flask for a reliable REST API

Our team

• Tadas: Full-stack doctor building websites that keep us healthy
• Morgan: Software anthropolgist studying stubborn users in the wild west of js
• Adrian: Building ML models for lazy, busy humans
• Dennis: ML-augmented bounty hunter for bugs in our democracy
• Andrew: Standing up infrastructure for the future of transportation

Special thanks to Furby for inspriation.

Built With

• css
• flask
• jupyter-notebook
• python
• twilio
• typescript