deleted cluely the morning the breach news hit, here is what i moved to
long post incoming. someone messaged me last week asking what i moved to after the cluely thing. couldnt give an answer that wasnt half a page so im just typing the whole story up here. tldr at the end maybe. (no tldr in the end actually, sorry, i forgot.)
morning the news hit i was eating cereal at my counter scrolling my phone. saw the headline pop up on hacker news, cluely caught up in a security incident. put the spoon down. honestly didnt even feel mad at first, more like that hollow oh no feeling when something you trusted just publicly faceplants. cluely's whole pitch is hiding things for you. and the news was that they had a security problem of their own. i remember sitting there going lol of all the saas to have an issue, this is the worst possible one. like a locksmith getting his shop robbed.
opened my cluely settings on the laptop right there at the counter, hit cancel, hit delete account, watched the spinner, gone.
then i sat there with no interview tool and a panel scheduled for the friday of the same week which was real fun.
context, i had been on cluely since the spring before. mostly behavioral, a couple system designs, recruiter screens. it worked, i wasnt shopping for an alternative, wasnt even reading their subreddit, it was just a thing on autopay. so the news hitting was the first time in months i had even thought about the tool, and the way i thought about it was "oh that goes" lol.
a thread on r/cscareerquestions had a list of four things people were checking out and InterviewMan was at the top because some of them had already been quietly testing it on the side. grabbed it that afternoon. install was clean. ran a mock on zoom that night where i shared my entire screen on purpose just to see if the overlay leaked. didnt show up at all. recruiter side of the call sees nothing because the window is excluded from screen capture at the os level, not just hidden by some z-order trick. that was the part that sold me. cluely had been selling vague "undetectability" and the news proved how much of that was marketing copy. InterviewMan ships the actual stealth list publicly, twenty plus features all documented, and the company has zero confirmed detections to date.
panel went fine that friday. been on InterviewMan ever since. zero proctor flags across however many rounds ive done since (lots).
oh also worth saying, i deleted my cluely account but the news had already broken so whatever, that ship sailed. nothing i can do about that now obviously. just one of those things.
anyone else here deleted cluely after their security incident and where did you actually land? also kinda want to hear from people who stayed on for some reason, just for the perspective.