Why I started Rethinkable
Hi, I am Beaves, founder of Rethinkable. I thought I would write why I decided to embark on this journey and talk about what our (incredible) team has achieved to date with $0 funding and just a discord bot.
In early 2022, I was a consultant and advisor to many web3 organizations. I was continuously on the lookout for talent on a daily basis, both offline and online, which was by far the biggest pain point I had faced. Turns out I wasn’t the only one. The reality is that demand for verified Web3 talent is on the rise — global search volume for ‘web3 jobs’ has increased over 3.5x from the bull market peak in November of 2021. However, it is all too common for projects and companies to settle for mediocre, unverified, and unqualified talent.
The irony here is that the talent is there. Some of the most capable, intelligent people I know all work in Web3, but the question was, where were they all hiding? So I started posting on various mediums, including, but not limited to LinkedIn, Twitter and Upwork. I was doing manual outreach, speaking to recruiters and trying on traditional Web2 platforms, but to no success.
And then, Hutchie, founding member of Rethinkable and our Growth Lead came to me and asked me to start posting on the different communities on Discord. This is where the “aha” moment began. We were now tapping into communities where we would be meeting applicants we never would have dreamed of meeting. From 12 year old moderators in the U.S. to incredibly talented designers and artists in Southeast Asia to developers in Africa, we were able to find the dream team that we wouldn’t have been able to find through other mediums.
This resulted in us building our first POC — CONNECT. As the name suggests, it was a cross-Discord recruitment tool to connect companies with candidates by INTEGRATING with COMMUNITIES to reach passionate and skilled Web3 talent. So how does it work? We’ve installed this bot across over 600 of the largest communities in Web3, amassing a distribution network of over 4 million people. Every time a job is posted, this gets sent to every single community and discord server we have partnered up with, ultimately allowing the communities to serve as a distribution channel.
As of today, CONNECT is currently being used by over 550+ communities, had 1100+ jobs listed, has 14,000+ monthly active users, and totaled 24,000+ applications submitted in the past months — resulting in 500+ confirmed hires.
However, this isn’t the end game. It’s just the start. We are just about to launch our flagship product, RETHINK which will create a new industry standard for decentralized recruitment, networking, and personal development.
Stay tuned for the exciting update to come, and for more information about our future roadmap, please read our whitepaper: https://rethinkable.gitbook.io/rethinkable/
If you are interested in installing the bot, please reach out to us and open a ticket on our discord: https://discord.gg/rethinkable
If you want to be apart of our journey, please connect with me on hello@rethinkable.xyz