Ruslan Halilov

Building 🔵 AI Chrome Extension for Google Meet

Hey, I'm Ruslan (you can call me Russ) 🙌

I'm one of the co-founders of Bluedot: The most accurate AI notetaker that captures both audio and video without any bots. We're backed by Google and compatible with Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.

Here is my story 👇

I used to work in sales and recruitment for almost 7 years at companies like N26. 

In 2019, my best friend Dima and I quit our jobs, and started our first business: a hiring platform to find & employ engineers in Europe. 

Once we scaled it to 15 consultants, our biggest pain was documenting all the conversations that our team had with clients and candidates. 

To solve our own problem, we shifted our focus and invested all the resources in building Bluedot. 

Building a software company turned out to be very different from building an agency. We failed up a lot. Learned a lot. And burned trough all our savings 💸💸💸

Thanks to Google for Startups, and our Angel Investors we kept going, and went live in late 2023. 

Today, Bluedot is profitable and used by 50,000+ companies including Netflix, Disney, Deel, Etsy, The New York Times, and others.

Try the most accurate AI notetaker with no bots: 👉 bluedothq.com 

Reach out to me at russ@bluedothq.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bluedothq

Co-Founder

I met 9 of our clients in Warsaw last week. The one that surprised me most was SKELAR.

A Ukrainian product venture with multiple successful apps and a fast-growing  office in Warsaw. 

Brand-new space. Massage sofas. Free breakfasts and lunches. The kind of perks you’d expect at Google or Meta.

Proud that Bluedot - AI Meeting Assistant is their #1 AI tool for recruitment automation 💙 

Thanks for the invite Olesia Dzoba. Ivan Spilatov appreciate your great office tour! Ashby integration is coming very soon - I promise.

Ruslan  Halilov 🔵

Building Bluedot: AI note taker that doesn’t join your meetings

What’s more important: product or marketing?

I debate this with Dima Eremin from time to time. X/LinkedIn is full of takes like: “marketing is the only thing that matters in the age of AI.”

A friend just came back after six months in SF and said that most founders he met there were focused on one thing: how to go viral on TikTok or Twitter. That’s the main goal -> product comes second.

Sure, you can sell people with a great ad promising to automate 99% of their work or 10x their sales pipeline. But if the product is bad, long-term churn will kill you. 

Maybe I’m old-school, but I believe you need a solid product that covers critical use cases and works reliably. At the same time, you should constantly experiment with different marketing channels and try to find a few that work for you.

But even if you never find a perfectly scalable channel, a good product combined with consistent effort over time will still get you somewhere.

What do you think?

I’ve never understood how some competitors claim they achieved SOC 2 and HIPAA in just a few weeks.

For us, it took 4 months and a lot of team effort just to reach the final certification stage. And for SOC 2 Type II, there’s an additional required observation period of at least 3 months.

I don’t see how this could be realistically done into a few weeks. No way. 

“SOC 2 in a few days” is a major 🚩🚩🚩

Be careful when choosing vendors.

Just met a friend who works as a Principal Engineer at a 1,000+ person US software company (7+ years on the market).

He personally spends $30K/month on Claude Code tokens and his team over $500K/month 🤯

They even have a leaderboard where people compete on usage.

He’s set up individual and team-wide “skills” (md files), and connected Claude to pretty much every internal tool.

What surprised me most: he couldn’t clearly say it makes him 10x more productive.But he did say it makes the work much smoother and more enjoyable.

Curious, have you already moved to Claude Code for most of your development?

I advise tech recruiting and employer branding teams on global hiring strategies.

I run Relocate.me, the leading job board for software engineers open to relocation, with 300K+ registered users and hiring partners in 20+ countries.

I’m actively contributing to Substack, where I write practical content for software engineers navigating international careers. Follow along at https://substack.com/@relocateme

If you’re a Tech Recruiter, you probably know GlossaryTech, a Chrome extension to learn tech jargon. I started it after a viral LinkedIn post… but that’s a long story.

Andrew Stetsenko

It’s official: GlossaryTech is now backed by Dice.

I’m happy and grateful to announce this partnership and a new chapter for GlossaryTech.

GlossaryTech started as a learning tool for the tech recruiting community. From the very beginning, it has always been free for tech recruiters. Over time, keeping it operational and up to date became more challenging, but the mission never changed.

Thanks to the support and trust of Dice, we’re now able to ensure GlossaryTech continues to operate and grow.

Here is the official announcement: https://lnkd.in/dZ_i2kYq

Already this year, we’ve added more than 250 new technical terms, mainly focused on AI, ML, data science, and DevOps. We’ve also improved app stability and expanded coverage across more websites.

We have exciting ideas ahead, and this partnership gives us the foundation to build them.

GlossaryTech is built to help you understand technical jargon without ever leaving the page you’re working on. 

When sourcing candidates. 
When reviewing job descriptions. 
When analyzing resumes in your inbox.

PS: The first photo was taken in 2017 in Austin at my first SourceCon, where I had a booth and introduced GlossaryTech to the community. 

Nearly a decade later, I’m proud to share this milestone with you.

Thank you to everyone who has supported GlossaryTech along the way. Stay tuned!

Andrew Stetsenko 🇺🇦

Founder @ Relocate.me | Advisor to tech companies on global hiring | Coffee lover ☕ | Stand with Ukraine

Excited to announce that Wise is now officially a partner of Relocate.me 🎉

This is part of our effort to bring together everything useful for relocation in one place - including a reliable international money solution.

I’m sure many of you are already familiar with Wise. But if you’re not:

Through Wise, you can access local bank account details to receive payments in 9 currencies, including GBP and EUR. Additionally, you can send and convert funds quickly in over 40 currencies - including large transfers - without hidden fees or exchange rate markups.

There are no monthly subscription fees, and you can sign up online for free.

Create your Wise account here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUkFNnnN 

More to come.

Just published a deep dive into Catawiki, now hiring software engineers for its Lisbon 🇵🇹 office.

For those unfamiliar, Catawiki is Europe’s leading curated auction marketplace.
 
Every month, 14 million people visit Catawiki to bid on vintage watches, rare comics, classic cars, and fine art. 

Behind that traffic is an engineering team that builds real-time auction systems, recommendation engines, and the search infrastructure that helps buyers find a vintage Rolex among 75,000 weekly listings. 

In my article, I cover Catawiki’s engineering team, tech stack, relocation support, hiring process, and more - so you can decide whether to apply.

Have a read 👉 https://lnkd.in/dXZhjAZF

Most engineers don’t fail Big Tech interviews because they lack skills.

They fail because they don’t have the system around them.

No structured prep.
No referrals.
No feedback from people who’ve actually been through it.

And if you’re based outside the US or Western Europe, that gap is even bigger.

Last year, I got acquainted with Tilek Mamutov, a former Google engineer.

He now runs Outtalent - a program that trains software engineers to pass interviews and land jobs at top tech companies.

So far, they’ve helped 200+ engineers land roles at companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Stripe - often with more than one offer.

Outtalent is mainly built for experienced engineers (4+ years) who have the skills but lack the network and structure to break in.

I covered in detail how it works, what it costs, and who it’s actually for in my new post for The Global Move.

Check it out here 👉

Open article: How Outtalent Helps Engineers From Emerging Markets Land Big Tech Jobs by relocateme.substack.com

How Outtalent Helps Engineers From Emerging Markets Land Big Tech Jobs

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