This week HackerPen is undergoing major refactoring in using WebRTC and WebSockets. Additionally, HackerPen starts supporting Kotlin as a programming language. refactor real-time connection Real-time update plays a key role in HackerPen’s collaborative nature. After 3 months of being in business and receiving a ton of feedback, we are incorporating what we’ve learned and aim to make the real-time connection more stable.

HackerPen is hosting an open product workshop in April, we had a lot of success from our March workshop session and want to continue doing it. As the same as our last session, we will limit the number of external guests we invite. In this product workshop, we will go…

This week HackerPen released two major features: in-session chat that makes the session experience more robust; and schedule visibility feature that allows interviewers to control their schedule in a better way. In-session chat In any HackerPen session, users now can reliably chat with one another. This allows users to still connect with each other when the connection is not stable, hence providing a better experience.

Hello there! Thanks for tuning into another update on HackerPen! HackerPen has released a much-improved flow of selecting questions during the past week. Additionally, we have integrated our feedback flow with Github 🎉 better question selection Now you can select questions from a table view, you can also search to target what you want to select. You can also create your own question so that you can interview others with a question you are familiar with 🙂

Hello everyone! Marshall here and hope you all had a great weekend. This past week HackerPen has made great progress, largely thanks to the participation from the community! Within 2 months of launching HackerPen has more than 200 users on the platform (40+ users signed up the last week alone)…

Hello, world! HackerPen is hosting an open product design session, this is our first time trying this, and in order to facilitate an effective session, we will limit the number of external guests we invite. Within the product design session, we will discuss product features that HackerPen is planning, get…

Happy 2.22.2022 everyone (lots of 2s) 😃. For the past week, HackerPen has focused on integrating questions seamlessly into mock interviews. I’m excited to say that we made tremendous progress. The past week we added: system design question bank solution support for both coding and system design questions movable video…

This week HackerPen went live with its first-ever major feature with open source collaboration — coding question bank integration! Thanks to the community’s contribution to our open-sourced tech interview question bank, users now can have mock interviews with a variety of questions! Schedule interview with question preference When users schedule a new interview, they can select what type of questions they prefer. The system will automatically choose a question that fits users’ preferences.

HackerPen is a platform to give and receive mock interviews. The purpose of this product is to empower people to help each other to land their dream tech jobs. This week HackerPen released some enhancements to our user experience, while still building out the open-source question bank. Interview reminder email 12 hours before…