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# — The backlog

What frustrated you this week?

Every product in this studio started as somebody’s bad week. If hiring or job hunting made yours worse — a broken process, a useless tool, an unanswerable question — drop it here. I read every submission, the real ones get listed, and votes decide what I take seriously.

Submissions are read by a human (me) before they appear.

You vent → I read & list → everyone votes → the loudest pain becomes the next project

01 — Problems on file

sorted by votes · one ↑ per problem per browser

You can't tell which tech skills are actually in demand in Finland — it's all LinkedIn folklore and US-centric reports.

Career switchers and bootcamp grads study whatever's trending globally, not what local employers pay for.

Shipped Jul 2026 see what came of it →

One-way video interviews and chatbot screening are quietly wrecking employer brands — candidates just walk away.

Most candidates say they'd withdraw from a process that replaces humans with a camera.

Open Jul 2026

Structured interviews are proven to work, but prepping one takes hours — so most interviews still run on gut feel.

And the first interview locks in the structure for every candidate after it, so bad prep compounds.

Exploring Jul 2026 see what came of it →

Recruiters are drowning: record applicant volumes, AI-polished CVs, and no good way to screen at that scale.

Open Jul 2026

Bootcamps and edu programs design curricula on gut feel, not live job-market data.

Exploring Jul 2026

Your problem might become a product.

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