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Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by kmfrk » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:34 PM UTC

dustball wrote: post #3

My take (dannyr and I built this) -- this is like an "about.me" but for developers. You add your GitHub account, add your programming languages, etc. And (my favorite) you add all the projects you are building -- for example when you add an Android app, it automatically links to the Android Market, pulls in the app icon, etc. This is meant for developers to have a decent place to showcase their geek. (And the domain…

How exactly is this different from flavors.me?

forrst.me also has more traction, and they are both formidable competitors, so I'd love some great selling points.

What would make your service very, very interesting is to focus entirely on creating a presentable mix of a personal homepage and a resumé - GitHub, Stack Overflow, Codelesson badges(!), and such. LinkedIn isn't that interesting in many regards, and it'd be great if you found the key to a good resumé and used that to build your foundation on.

forrst.me is more of a social web discoverability tool, while flavors.me creates easy-to-make web presences.

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by dustball » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:34 PM UTC

Unrelated: look who we're sitting next to :) http://i.imgur.com/RNSK5.jpg

(Angry birds just got $45m yesterday!)

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by dannyr » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:36 PM UTC

gm wrote: post #8

this is great... But the link to the SO user profile is broken, at least for me... Methinks a SO username is not enough to construct a link to the profile Great work!

yeah. you need an id at least (e.g. stackoverflow.com/user/1234)

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by d0m » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:36 PM UTC

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/profileioweb/1.348935554744823342/main.py", line 60, in post app = Application(email=self.request.get('email'),desc=self.request.get('desc')) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 815, in __init__ prop.__set__(self, value) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 544, in __set__ value = self.validate(value) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2437, in validate raise BadValueError('Property %s is not multi-line' % self.name) BadValueError: Property desc is not multi-line

:D

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by dannyr » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:39 PM UTC

d0m wrote: post #14

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/profileioweb/1.348935554744823342/main.py", line 60, in post app = Application(email=self.request.get('email'),desc=self.request.get('desc')) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__…

We are using StringProperty. We need to use TextProperty.

We are going to try to fix this soon.

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by StavrosK » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:42 PM UTC

"Favorite cloud provider?" God, can we at least not make it easy for people to stereotype us? The only non-silly answer is "water vapour".

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by jessedhillon » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:43 PM UTC

dannyr wrote: post #15

d0m wrote: post #14

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/profileioweb/1.348935554744823342/main.py", line 60, in post app = Application(email=self.request.get('email'),desc=self.request.get('desc')) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__…

We are using StringProperty. We need to use TextProperty. We are going to try to fix this soon.

I think the bigger issue is that your tracebacks are publicly visible.

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by dustball » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:48 PM UTC

d0m wrote: post #14

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 517, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/profileioweb/1.348935554744823342/main.py", line 60, in post app = Application(email=self.request.get('email'),desc=self.request.get('desc')) File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__…

Thanks for the bug report! We fixed the issue.

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by robeastham » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:48 PM UTC

This is a little similar to my new app/startup:

http://www.mightycv.com

Mighty CV is a little more free form and geared towards producing a hacker centric traditional style résumé and so not quite the same as profile.io.

Just signed up for a beta account at profile.io and it looks promising. Perhaps we could provide integration to each others services.

Re: Show HN: Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

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Post by dustball » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 11:49 PM UTC

jessedhillon wrote: post #17

dannyr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are using StringProperty. We need to use TextProperty. We are going to try to fix this soon.

I think the bigger issue is that your tracebacks are publicly visible.

Great point, thanks.

Did I mention we made this entire site on a BUS RIDE? :)