Reel is a hiring company that starts with real conversations instead of resumes and job descriptions. 60 minutes. A profile that captures who you are professionally, a resume rewrite, personalized interview prep guide & social copy all generated from what you share. And your profile gets more valuable over time. As Reel grows, it becomes the foundation for connecting you with opportunities based on real information. It's a better starting point for work, for everyone.
AI runs the operations. Humans hold the conversations.
I'm Rachel. I spent 14 years inside recruiting watching incredibly qualified people get reduced to keywords on a resume. Last June, I left my corporate role to build something different. I didn't have a plan. I just knew that hiring and finding work needed a better starting point.
In nearly every conversation I've had with job seekers, I've heard a version of: "I would never say this in an interview, but this is what I really want." That gap between what people have to perform in a hiring process and what they actually bring to their work is what Reel exists to close.
The product is a 60-minute conversation with a person. From it, you get a profile that captures your strengths, how you work, and what actually matters most. Plus a resume rewrite, interview prep, and social copy, all built from what you shared, not from what we ask. It's not an interview, its space to share your story.
When every company has access to the same foundation models, the differentiation isn't the AI. It's the proprietary human data your product generates when you keep humans in the loop at high-value moments. Reel is my live test of that thesis.
The operations were built by me, a non-technical founder, with Claude, Antigravity, Notion, Airtable, Stripe, Calendly, and Vercel. The product: deliberately, unreplaceably human. That tension is the whole point.
It starts with candidates, moves to companies, scales with a platform, and becomes the missing data layer for skills based hiring. My goal is better hiring, for everyone.
One of the first moments I knew Reel was worth building was in October when I met with three strangers for coffee in the middle of a downpour in NY. They agreed to test an early conversation-based hiring approach with me, trekked through the rain to meet me, and two of them hugged me afterward. I'll never forget it.
Yesterday, someone booked and paid for a Reel conversation before I even officially launched. First customer before launch day. In a world full of automation, someone chose a real conversation.
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About Reel on Product Hunt
“Hiring that starts with conversations, not automation.”
Reel was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. Reel is a hiring company that starts with real conversations instead of resumes and job descriptions. 60 minutes. A profile that captures who you are professionally, a resume rewrite, personalized interview prep guide & social copy all generated from what you share. And your profile gets more valuable over time. As Reel grows, it becomes the foundation for connecting you with opportunities based on real information. It's a better starting point for work, for everyone.
Reel was featured in Hiring (15.3k followers), Career (2k followers) and Vercel Day (5 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 12.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Reel?
Reel was hunted by Rachel Gulley. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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