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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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938 points·by _andychung·6 jaar geleden·358 comments

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_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Haha yup
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from people who would like to hide their profile from their current employer.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·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
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
_andychung
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.