beautiful design.
Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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#112This looks cool, really nice design. It would be good to list a few more example profiles, it's hard to get an idea of what a profile would look like by only seeing yours.
For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
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#113User feedback: I don’t know if read.cv will be around forever since it’s a new thing. I feel compelled to give it a shot since I’m attracted to the cleaner low-noise profiles compared to LinkedIn. I was scanning the marketing material to see if there was an option to export a CV as static HTML in case I wanted to self-host the CV. The closest thing was the bullet about printability, which I assume means I can at leas…
This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.
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#114Congrats on the launch. Overall it's really clean and I like the design. Some quick feedback, which you can take with a grain of salt: * I was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected it to be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View Demo button. * I love the collaborators feature. IMO this is one the biggest missing factors of LinkedIn (e.g. who did you actually work with on a small team) * I…
Thank you fellow Andy — Hear you about the homepage, hoping to completely redo it soon and create more abstracted visuals. In terms of the pointer, my current logic is to use cursor: pointer on anything that visually looks like a link (e.g. unstyled text), and to leave it as default for components that have a visual affordance that they are clickable (e.g. buttons or tabs). I realize this might not be the most web-li…
#nit - an affordance is something that can be done, a signifier is a visual clue that you can do something
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94265/whats-the-diffe....
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#115Why did you add your personal pronouns? I don't understand why we are stating the obvious here.
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#116Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…
This is really tough - humans are hardwired to form connections and remember people by recognizing faces. This, of course, is also exactly the problem, in that it allows for bias or prejudice of many different types to influence our judgements.
I think I agree with you that the downsides and inherent unfairness of the genetic attractiveness lottery outweigh the upsides of attaching a name to a face. It's an empirical question then whether this works for users.
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#117Why did you add in your personal pronouns? Are you saying that there are more than 2 sexes? Can you just change your sex with the flip of a switch? Let's end this trend of adding our pronouns to every social profile.
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#118I started read.cv when transitioning from full time to freelance design in July. I wanted an easy to update 'about me' page to link from my website and bio – something simpler than LinkedIn and more dynamic than a PDF. Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences,…
How was the experience with setting up a Cape Verde business entity for the domain? Any issues or regrets?
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.
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#119Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…
I agree with what you've said. I like the site and I think it's very nice, but I dislike headshots. https://twostepsforward.co/2015/10/on-web-authorship-trends/
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't any form of "endorsement" if you can add them without confirmation from the person you're tagging.
I think you are lightweight endorsing them, not the other way around.
Their image appearing on a CV feels (inaccurately) like an endorsement of that CV, given people's typical goals when looking at a CV.