Is a lot of pushback actually a signal?

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I've been building an AI hiring platform for the past few months. Last week I started posting about it on Reddit. The responses were brutal. "AI interviews are a scam." "This is just a cost cutting measure." "It'll never replace human judgement." Honestly it demotivated me. I almost didn't launch. But then something interesting happened. Between the criticism, a few people said things like: "The fair chance for every candidate angle stands out. Hiring processes are inconsistent depending on who's screening. If your system standardises that it's a strong value prop." Another person pointed out a genuinely sharp distinction between screening and evaluation that made me rethink how I was describing the product entirely. And then outside of Reddit - a dental staffing agency owner in the US saw a rough demo on a local setup, signed up the same day, and asked for a full demo call. No landing page. No domain. Just a Facebook post. So I kept building. This week AwesomeHires went accepting w...