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

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Post by drusepth »

vbtemp wrote: post #110

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…

They're definitely overused in a lot of designs. They can be useful to portray some information at a glance in some data-heavy designs, but I don't find them helpful here -- I find them distracting.

Comparison CV with/without faces: https://i.imgur.com/u6FVLqr.png

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

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Post by myself248 »

vaillant wrote: post #68
eyelidlessness wrote: post #21

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 was wondering about the existence of structured resume formats, so thank you for this random piece of knowledge in a place I did not expect to find it.

For real. I've been wishing for such a format for years. Now if I find myself applying for jobs, I can sneer derisively at places that don't support any of these, and then grudgingly apply for them manually anyway.

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

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Post by camdenlock »

sebdufbeau wrote: post #89
camdenlock wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The concept of personal pronoun assignments is part of a very specific orthodoxy.

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

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Post by wsdrdsw »

etrautmann wrote: post #116
vbtemp wrote: post #110

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…

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…

With real names, faces are just one google search away for most people (and we could debate further what would it mean if a face wasn't found).

Functionally the website would be a wasteland of white sameness without portraits, no way around that I think.

I'm not entirely convinced this service solves the linkedin pitfall of mingling jumphoppers racking up impressive paper stats and polluting the signal.

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

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Post by bosie »

drusepth wrote: post #131
vbtemp wrote: post #110

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…

They're definitely overused in a lot of designs. They can be useful to portray some information at a glance in some data-heavy designs, but I don't find them helpful here -- I find them distracting. Comparison CV with/without faces: https://i.imgur.com/u6FVLqr.png

i don't even get what the faces should indicate? former coworkers? people that the person was managing?

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

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Post by camdenlock »

ska wrote: post #130
camdenlock wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Nothing bizarre about it; Diverse viewpoints tend to strengthen a community, so considering it unfortunate that HN doesn't benefit from a broader demographic distribution is pretty defensible.

By that logic, it would be sensible to lament that, say, a particular daycare is staffed entirely by women, or that a particular ice hockey team is made up entirely of white men. Sometimes groups of humans coalesce these ways, and there’s nothing wrong or unfortunate about it. No intervention requested or required.

If you want to champion diversity of viewpoints, that’s a different matter entirely, and such conditions may be desirable, depending on the wants & needs of the group in question.

Take these things on a case-by-case basis. Don’t reach for top-down governance as a panacea when such a thing is neither requested nor required.

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

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Post by Minor49er »

bmallerd wrote: post #100

Hello from Vancouver! Great work. One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over. Hit me up if you need some help.

I was just about to suggest this myself. It would be a great addition for sure!

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

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Post by asah »

bmallerd wrote: post #100

Hello from Vancouver! Great work. One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over. Hit me up if you need some help.

came here to say this... and to also offer...

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

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Post by MildlySerious »

I never had a LinkedIn profile or similar. Might give this one a try, actually. I like the no bullshit approach. Lots of the sites and platforms we use try to be and do a hundred things at once. It's overwhelming sometimes, and exhausting most of the time.
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