Ask HN: Are there any 'Profile Page as a Service' available for developers?
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It’s called LinkedIn. You have to maintain your own profile but it has an audience of people looking to hire no other service has.
LinkedIn is not specific to software developers. And besides everything has to be added and updated regularly there "manually".
I was asking about a service that can pull data from GitHub (say the projects the user is actively committing currently), the active jobs on upwork, the reviews the developer got on those websites, and so forth.
I was asking about a service that can pull data from GitHub (say the projects the user is actively committing currently), the active jobs on upwork, the reviews the developer got on those websites, and so forth.
I'm working on something just like this: https://profiled.app. There's a lot of improvements to make still and I a lot of features I intend to add to make it much more than simply a data aggregator.
Great. That's exactly what I was thinking.
Funny you ask, me and other people built something like this a few years (actually 7 years…) ago. It never really got past a few hundred initial users, thus has been shut down meanwhile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125028
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125028
Wow, there we have it, a person who has already implemented this idea a long time back. So what made you shutdown the service? Would you be willing to share your experience?
Gregjor has the right answer. I know this might seem like a nice startup idea, but unless you know a group of people really feeling pained that there's no LinkedIn alternative, I would be wary. All good solutions start with a problem.
Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying here about asking people if the problem exists. I can actually connect with that part :).
I actually never thought of that idea as a LinkedIn alternative. Rather one thing that came to my mind when I thought of this was 'Dynamic Resume'.
I actually never thought of that idea as a LinkedIn alternative. Rather one thing that came to my mind when I thought of this was 'Dynamic Resume'.
I had similar idea. I think you have very good addition which I did not think of. Let's try to discuss this in some chat.
If not, would you be willing to use such a service (FREE or PAID?) if it existed. And how much would you be willing to pay for such a service?