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

#22

Post by phlux »

kmfrk wrote: post #11
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…

>...so I'd love some great selling points.

They built it while riding the bus, what more could one ask for?

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

#24

Post by jkkramer »

Neat idea. Minor nits:

- Would be nice if custom background images tiled

- Not clear whether to enter usernames or URLs for accounts

- "Add an Technology" typo

- No cancel buttons on the forms

- Popup forms feel a little sluggish to open. Any way to have their HTML preloaded?

- List of tech, etc could use some typography/color to make it more readable

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

#25

Post by ks »

techietim wrote: post #21

I hope you don't plan on keeping the current URL for the developer listing, as humorous as it is: http://profile.io/developers/developers/developers/developer...

It seems that someone has inserted javascript code in their profile. That page is full of javascript message boxes saying "xss1", "xss2" etc.

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

#27

Post by Xk »

Escape (and everything else), and check the site for XSS. I don't mean to be rude, and I realize you two coded this up in a really short amount of time -- but before this site goes live it would be best to have it secure.

Demo: http://profile.io/foobar

[EDIT] As someone else pointed out, viewing the list-of-developers page puts up the XSS, which is even worse. I didn't know that page existed.

[EDIT2] It turns out I broke a lot more than I tried to. I also own the account 'xss' which has an unclosed '[EDIT3] I broke that account even more in order to fix it. I had an unclosed script tag, so I closed it off in my 'location'. If you fix the xss in just the profile information, then the page will get messed up again.

[EDIT4] The 'test' account was deleted, but the XSS's haven't been fixed? Updated to point to a different page I had made.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ks wrote: post #25
techietim wrote: post #21

I hope you don't plan on keeping the current URL for the developer listing, as humorous as it is: http://profile.io/developers/developers/developers/developer...

It seems that someone has inserted javascript code in their profile. That page is full of javascript message boxes saying "xss1", "xss2" etc.

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

#29

Post by Xk »

BoppreH wrote: post #23

Apparently there's someone called " alert(1) ". Please sanitize this person's name before displaying it. Thank you.

Yeah, that's me -- I can't change my name, but if I could I would. I didn't realize there was the developer list and thought I would have an isolated test page.

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

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Post by kmfrk »

phlux wrote: post #22
kmfrk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>...so I'd love some great selling points. They built it while riding the bus, what more could one ask for?

That makes it a good story, not a good service. :)
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