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

#81

Apologies for being off topic, but the side project you link - https://andychung.me/self-portrait - is absolutely awesome. Runs like butter in the browser and I absolutely love the art style. Kudos to you!

Absolutely buttery smooth in my (non Chrome/Chromium) mobile browser.

Brilliant!

If anyone wonders: there has been so many somewhat interesting websites lately that only works in Chrome that it is well worth pointing out when something just works.

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

#84

This seems very useful, but one question I have is how suitable is this for freelancers? Not everyone is looking for a full-time Job or wants to present a CV as such but still wants to showcase their work and what they've achieved but your site seems a little more Cv oriented? I hope it makes sense what I'm getting at?

For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even use as a personal website.

Yes. I'm interested in the personal website aspect.

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

#87

I 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 guess you simply purchase the domain. Just like bit.ly which, as far as I know, doesn't have an entity in Libya.

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

#88
post #81

Apologies for being off topic, but the side project you link - https://andychung.me/self-portrait - is absolutely awesome. Runs like butter in the browser and I absolutely love the art style. Kudos to you!

Absolutely buttery smooth in my (non Chrome/Chromium) mobile browser. Brilliant! If anyone wonders: there has been so many somewhat interesting websites lately that only works in Chrome that it is well worth pointing out when something just works .

Oddly didn't work so well on my Chrome (I have 100+ tabs open), but did great on Firefox.

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

#89
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I saw the world "mindful", and groaned.

Also saw the addition of the pronouns section and cringed. I hope such expressions of religious affiliation are optional.

They are optional, but I'm not sure what pronouns have to do with religion.

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

#90

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-li…

This is pretty awesome, I ended up just creating my full profile and swapping my personal details from here to there.

The only thing I'm missing is the Publications and Certifications section (had to create an award for the certs)

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