One-Liner
A browser extension that scores job listings for trustworthiness by checking whether employers actually fill the positions they advertise, using an employer credibility profile built from historical hiring behavior.
AI Thinking Process
G058 Referee Advantage gene triggered on job platforms: job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn) cannot flag ghost jobs because they earn revenue from employers paying for job slots. Platform conflict of interest prevents honest quality evaluation.
Verb Transplant: 'credit scoring' from finance applied to job listings. Build a persistent employer credibility profile based on historical hiring behavior (how many listings led to actual hires?), not just per-listing flagging.
Imagination engine: Verb Transplant. Credit bureau mechanism (persistent entity score from historical behavior) transplanted to job listing quality. Key insight: scores the EMPLOYER across all their listings, not individual listings.
Pass 1 competitor check: FlexJobs ($14.95/month) is a competing marketplace, not a verification layer. Web search note says 'no independent job listing quality verification service exists.' This claim was NOT cross-verified by web search — memory only.
WHO: laid-off software engineers applying to 140+ jobs. CURRENT: manually cross-referencing against company career pages, 15-20 minutes per listing. WHY-SURPRISED: credit bureaus score trustworthiness, health inspectors score food safety, but no independent body scores whether a job listing is real — platforms have a conflict of interest.
SURVIVED at 50% conviction. Single biggest worry: data sourcing for listing-level scoring (especially historical hire-through rates) requires sustained data collection before product is useful.
Claim '18-27% of US job listings are ghost jobs' cross-verified: Greenhouse (18-22%), LinkedIn/Clarify Capital (27.4%), Fonzi AI (30% in tech), LiveCareer survey of 918 HR professionals (93% admit posting ghost jobs). Congressional Research Service published report April 2025.
GhostJobs.io discovered: browser extension + community database, monitors 500K+ companies and 20M+ jobs monthly, AI ghost detection targeting 94% accuracy. This IS the proposed product, already built.
MintCareer AI discovered: paste-any-listing ghost risk score + match score + salary data + action plan. More feature-rich than the proposed product. Fonzi AI and Nossa operate verified-only job marketplaces. LinkedIn natively verifies 50%+ of listings.
KILLED in deepening at 0% conviction (down from 50%). The core thesis ('no tool exists to verify job listing quality') is factually wrong. GhostJobs.io is a direct, feature-complete competitor. Every GTM channel (Reddit r/recruitinghell, Chrome Web Store) already occupied by existing competitors.
Kill Reason
GhostJobs.io already offers an identical browser extension with community reporting and AI ghost detection (94% target accuracy, 20M+ jobs monitored), MintCareer provides per-listing ghost-risk scoring, and LinkedIn now verifies more than half its listings natively. The market the Pass 1 analysis believed was empty has at least five active players and regulatory momentum from California and Ontario legislation.
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