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Re: Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups

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Post by preetsojitra » Sat, Jul 05, 2025, 9:52 AM UTC

McDyver wrote: post #7

preetsojitra wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha, it will look similar because I coded it with claude and gemini 2.5 pro. During brainstorming I just asked claude to make static html mocks and this is the best version that I was able to achieve. I feel like improving color scheme but AI peaked at this color theme as is unable to give better results

Is this "the future"? Someone whips up and deploys something with an LLM, but is unable to change a colour scheme because "computer says no". At the same time you need to register and provide an email. How confident are you about what to do when there's a leak?

> Someone whips up and deploys something with an LLM, but is unable to change a colour scheme because "computer says no".

I meant to say that, I do not have great design sense and I tried different color schemes suggested by LLMs but all were very weird or mid.

> At the same time you need to register and provide an email. How confident are you about what to do when there's a leak?

Based on all the comments and feedback, I have decided to make signup optional. If I don't have data, I can't lose it.

Re: Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups

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Post by karmakaze » Sat, Jul 05, 2025, 4:41 PM UTC

preetsojitra wrote: post #9

karmakaze wrote: post #6

The site doesn't seem to understand what anonymously means: "Continue with Google"? What's the point of having a barrier of creating a throwaway email to post a story?

You are right. I apologize for the confusing experience. My only reason to sign-up was to prevent spam. Based on this feedback, I will make it optional. Thank you for the feedback.

Thanks. I wondered if that might be the reason, but then thought if anyone has loads of ready-to-go-throwaway-emails it would be the spammers. Maybe using AI to fight spammy posts can work for a while if it needs automation.

Re: Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups

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Post by SoominH » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 8:32 AM UTC

I was excited to try “Explore the Chaos” and wanted to share something — just a quick, anonymous post — but I saw I had to log in.

It felt like a bit of a barrier.

Would love an option to leave a one-time message without signing in, almost like dipping a toe into the chaos before diving in fully.

Re: Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups

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Post by preetsojitra » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 5:38 AM UTC

SoominH wrote: post #13

I was excited to try “Explore the Chaos” and wanted to share something — just a quick, anonymous post — but I saw I had to log in. It felt like a bit of a barrier. Would love an option to leave a one-time message without signing in, almost like dipping a toe into the chaos before diving in fully.

Hi thanks for the feedback. I am planning to make login fully optional. Will be implemented in next update.