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Roast Bringops - my project to help screen Devops & SRE's with AI
Hey there! 👋 Excited to share Bringops for your feedback - I built a platform that helps you evaluate DevOps candidates' practical skills before investing time in interviews.
Background:
After spending 10+ years as a SRE/DevOps engineer and conducting dozens of technical interviews, I kept running into the same problem: candidates with impressive certifications often struggled with basic production troubleshooting. I'd spend 45-75 minutes in technical interviews (let alone prep time) only to discover the candidate couldn't handle real-world scenarios like service outages or system failures.
Meet Bringops:
I've built an AI-powered technical assessment platform specifically designed for Infrastructure Engineering roles. The platform presents candidates with real-world production failure scenarios they'd encounter in their daily work, including:
- Diagnosing and fixing misconfigured services
- Handling corrupted database scenarios
- Setting up and deploying services efficiently
Right now you get:
- A recording of their entire problem-solving process
- AI analysis of everything they did to fix the issue
What Makes Bringops Different:
While most technical assessment platforms focus heavily on programming challenges, I built Bringops specifically for infrastructure roles. I focus on real-world scenarios that DevOps and SREs face daily. Plus, in today's cost-conscious environment, I'm keeping it affordable to help companies hire effectively without breaking the bank.
My Biggest Doubt:
I decided to go with a simple pay-per-use pricing model to start with:
- 3 tasks for $39 ($13/task)
- 10 tasks for $99 ($9.90/task)
- 20 tasks for $159 ($7.95/task)
Background:
After spending 10+ years as a SRE/DevOps engineer and conducting dozens of technical interviews, I kept running into the same problem: candidates with impressive certifications often struggled with basic production troubleshooting. I'd spend 45-75 minutes in technical interviews (let alone prep time) only to discover the candidate couldn't handle real-world scenarios like service outages or system failures.
Meet Bringops:
I've built an AI-powered technical assessment platform specifically designed for Infrastructure Engineering roles. The platform presents candidates with real-world production failure scenarios they'd encounter in their daily work, including:
- Diagnosing and fixing misconfigured services
- Handling corrupted database scenarios
- Setting up and deploying services efficiently
Right now you get:
- A recording of their entire problem-solving process
- AI analysis of everything they did to fix the issue
What Makes Bringops Different:
While most technical assessment platforms focus heavily on programming challenges, I built Bringops specifically for infrastructure roles. I focus on real-world scenarios that DevOps and SREs face daily. Plus, in today's cost-conscious environment, I'm keeping it affordable to help companies hire effectively without breaking the bank.
My Biggest Doubt:
I decided to go with a simple pay-per-use pricing model to start with:
- 3 tasks for $39 ($13/task)
- 10 tasks for $99 ($9.90/task)
- 20 tasks for $159 ($7.95/task)
My dilemma is whether I should:
- Let people try 3 tasks for free before buying, so they can fully test the platform
- Or require payment upfront, but still give 3 bonus tasks with their first purchase
I'm torn because when I'm hiring, I always want to thoroughly test a tool before putting candidates through it. But as a bootstrapped founder, I need to be careful with AI costs. What would you do?
Tentative Roadmap:
1. AI Scoring System: Give an actual score to candidates' solutions
- Better insights into candidates' troubleshooting methodology
- Clear indicators of hands-on experience level
2. Expanded Challenge Library: Adding more scenarios (Terraform, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.)
3. Custom Challenges: Let companies use their own infrastructure scenarios
4. Referral discounts
Future Ideas:
- Challenge Marketplace where pros can create and monetize their own scenarios
- ATS integration (maybe through Zapier)
Try It Out:
The platform is operational and you can create an account at [link] to check it out. I'd love to hear what you think about the product, landing page, pricing, and overall experience. What would you change? What's missing?
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Hi @RCM I do DevOps/DevSecOps interviews as additional work (often payed) in my day to day job, and usually what happens is that I'm asked to interview people since the recruiters can't do the technical part, but what I'm not clear I understand is if it's a platform for interviewers or interviewees.
Hey Ronny! The value added is for interviewers. The goal is to save time creating and reviewing technical assignments sent to candidates, and grab ammunition for potential follow up interviews!
Nice! I can see it working in places needing to fill demand really fast, or companies trying to find that 1% of professionals, maybe not the case at my place but I think it could fill the criteria for more specialized companies, best of luck!
This looks cool and messaging is clear, but I think you need to put this in front of you target audience to answer the questions you have.
I guess that companies with dedicated devOps roles have 5-10 employees at least, so pricing must remove as much friction as possible for them... I imagine a company would want to use at least 2-3 tasks per candidate, and interview at least 10-20 people per role, so bundles of 3/10/20 tasks seem super small to me, but maybe I am wrong!
Hey Juan!
Super valid point that I wasn't really thinking about. I've been focusing so much on being cheaper than competition at least to start with... I'll do some research on those numbers and adjust the bundles accordingly!
Thanks a lot for the input!
Looking good!
You might be able to get away from having to offer a trial by putting up a few comprehensive demos so that they can get a good grasp of what the product offers?