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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...

“Unfortunately”. What a ridiculous culture we’ve built if this sentiment is widely accepted. Just bizarre.

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This is awesome! As many others are sharing feedback, I thought I’d might add some myself: I would like to have better support for changing roles internally within the same company (ie promotions etc) and in this regard having the month available at least as an option would be great. LinkedIn uses the company as a higher level grouping, then the years/months spent in a certain position. For me to use this regularly I…

Overall would recommend leveraging the schema from JSONResume (https://jsonresume.org/schema/) that supports all of the above

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

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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,…

Hey Andy, good job! The app looks really clean and nice to navigate through.

I just wanted to share a couple of "views" that I created to express my career in a different way. I'm sharing just for your inspiration. (content in Portuguese, but I bet you can auto translate it)

Experience view; years of experience per theme/subject. https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/experiencia/

Projects & cultural context in chronological order (notice the flags) https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/eu/lista-de-projetos/

I decided to make those views available because I stopped believing the standard CV/LinkedIn format for presenting myself and my career.

Cheers and keep up the great work!

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signed up immediately. looks beautiful. i LOVE that you have dark mode right out of the gate. what are your plans for this? is this a fun side project or a proto-startup?

Thank you! It started as a side project but I have a few ideas on how to turn this into something a bit more real.

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

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This is awesome! As many others are sharing feedback, I thought I’d might add some myself: I would like to have better support for changing roles internally within the same company (ie promotions etc) and in this regard having the month available at least as an option would be great. LinkedIn uses the company as a higher level grouping, then the years/months spent in a certain position. For me to use this regularly I…

Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning.

As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the feedback on!

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User 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 least save as a PDF. Even so, an static HTML export option would have made it even more compelling to setup a profile.

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

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This is visually very attractive. Have you considered supporting uploading structured resume formats like FRESH? Edit: also I want to emphasize the fact that this looks great on mobile , which isn’t something I always expect in this space. That said I’d consider bumping up the text size a bit (or allowing users to do so for their own profile).

I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make it easier for people would be great.

It might also help you refine your data model to use other structured standards as a reference. It’s helped me think about building my own personal site presentation.

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

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Definitely 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 to do it that does not involve people's pictures.

Edit: Wow this got a lot of upvotes. So, I'll continue for a sec: There is so, so much conscious and unconscious judgment and game playing with pictures, I don't even know where to start. Let's leave this to be simple, clean and beautiful without the faces.

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