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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by ajkjk »

orky56 wrote: post #9

Great idea and execution! I personally find the white space excessive and it's made more obvious on print. Unless someone is name dropping companies, I would expect a resume to have a lot more information in a higher density view. A cool idea would be to replace the facepile with various icons with numbers next to it to show quantified metrics that were accomplishments of various positions/projects ($X rev/# commits/…

oh god please don't make an engineer (at least) prove their worth in a bunch of silly metrics

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by _andychung »

andygcook wrote: post #8

Congrats 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-like convention though - might be worth it to just move all clickable components to the pointer cursor.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by spockz »

swamy_g wrote: post #7

(unsolicited) Feedback: Why are there other people on my CV? Who are they to begin with? And when a recruiter is looking at my CV, I don't want them clicking on other people.

I actually really like the concept of naming collaborators. Most great work is done in teams. Either through sparring or checking. The individualistic view on cvs does injustice to the complex dynamics of teams and performers.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by marcinzm »

My feedback is that the collaborators aren't very useful to me. As in, I get 10+ tiny unrecognizable face icons and a name if I hover over them. There's no way to a see a list of collaborators and their one sentence blurbs for a specific project. Not even sure if shared collaborators are highlighted if you're logged in yourself or not.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by whiddershins »

I would like it if the collaborators were in a cluster on the right of the Company name, rather than inline. It would make it more clear that this is a related concept.

As you eyes go down the left side of the page you would read contiguous CV info, supporting information would be a little more segregated to the right.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by alexjray »

Things I like.

- projects and feature section.

- Simple clean design, easy to edit

- printable

Things I don't like

- Super buggy

- no support for company lookup/reference (need to build company DB and connect the social graphs, this is why Linkedin is so valuable/has a moat i.e. your biggest challenge.)

- No ability to add a custom section to my profile.

- I would like to add things non-work related like music i'm listening to, books I'm reading etc...

- The above makes things more personal, but I would go even further the more intimate the better IMO. Work is personal.

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