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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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938 points·by _andychung·6 лет назад·358 comments

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_andychung
·6 лет назад·discuss
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
_andychung
·6 лет назад·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 лет назад·discuss
This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.
_andychung
·6 лет назад·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 лет назад·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 лет назад·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 лет назад·discuss
Haha yup
_andychung
·6 лет назад·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 лет назад·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 лет назад·discuss
The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
_andychung
·6 лет назад·discuss
For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from people who would like to hide their profile from their current employer.
_andychung
·6 лет назад·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 лет назад·discuss
Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
_andychung
·6 лет назад·discuss
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
_andychung
·6 лет назад·discuss
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
_andychung
·6 лет назад·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 лет назад·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 лет назад·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 лет назад·discuss
You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
_andychung
·6 лет назад·discuss
Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.