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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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938 points·by _andychung·vor 6 Jahren·358 comments

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_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration process and I haven't had any issues so far.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning.

As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the feedback on!
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Thank you! It started as a side project but I have a few ideas on how to turn this into something a bit more real.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Haha yup
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even use as a personal website.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how to better support this.

In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs section or something.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from people who would like to hide their profile from their current employer.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make it easier for people would be great.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
I'm thinking of simply truncating collaborators after a certain number and offering the ability to open the full list in a modal or something.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
I haven't implemented gestures to open the sidebar yet unfortunately - currently to close the sidebar on mobile either tap the right edge of the screen (the sliver of the detail), or tap a navigation item in the sidebar.
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Have definitely been thinking about how to make sections more customizable as I'll never be able to make the defaults cover every use case. What bugs are you encountering?
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
_andychung
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.