In April 2014, Josh and I started Underdog.io as a side project to help pay the bills and buy some time to finish another product that we had been building. The premise behind Underdog.io was simple. If the hiring/recruiting spectrum is bookended by job boards on one side and agency recruiters on the other, we saw an opportunity to build something in between the two that struck a balance between the effectiveness of a good recruiter and the simplicity and inexpensiveness of a job board.