Cluely and HockeyStack are scam companies too.

Cluely did the ChatGPT wrapper to cheat on interviews then sold the customer data to recruiters. The whole company promise is a scam, and useless since we have LLMs.

HockeyStack held contests for people to win cars etc and never delivered. They also lied about having revenues and a product when they had nothing built. Along with Greptile they were doing 7day weeks of unpaid labor from “trial periods”.

Scams all around.

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calderwoodra 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Greptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there

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porridgeraisin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait what's the greptile story?

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buttsack 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It says right there, 7-day work weeks (no days off).

Also they were part of the cohort forcing workers to stay minimum until 9PM.

Like every AI company, their "product" is a Next.js website, OPENAI_API_KEY, and a Stripe checkout page.

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porridgeraisin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah ok. What's with the "unpaid labour" part?

	▲	buttsack 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's also in the original post. Greptile, HockeyStack, and others from that cohort of 20-year old founders out of YC were having software engineer candidates come in day-in and day-out, staying until 9PM under the threat of being rejected if they left earlier. They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period". And yes it's very illegal. I was there and saw it first-hand. The guys they had on trial periods - though I'm sure they were very intelligent - were not really firing on all cylinders if you know what I mean.