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

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Post by gilli »

gilli wrote: post #190
_andychung wrote: post #2

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,…

> 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, status updates, and print optimized profiles. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I think your definition of legibility is maybe a bit off, the font is too small to be considered legible by any accessibilit…

Right, so I read a bit further and saw a comment about the view example button, which took me to the proper cv. So my comment isn't completely accurate, haha.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

hcurtiss wrote: post #182
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…

All else being equal, isn't attractiveness also a marketable asset in most if not all industries?

How does being pretty make me a better, or even more marketable programmer or sysadmin? I'm not user-facing, and interaction is mostly done by textual messages.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

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…

Yeah, I'm a fan of anyting to replace LinkedIn, but if your site requires a picture that I'm not going to sign up. I don't particularly mind if you make it available for people who want to do that, but it's a hard pass for me.

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

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Post by SmellTheGlove »

wsdrdsw wrote: post #134
etrautmann wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> mingling jumphoppers racking up impressive paper stats

What does this mean?

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

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Post by mgalgs »

_andychung wrote: post #2

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,…

Love it. I see you're not running ads. What's your plan for monetization?

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

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Post by SmellTheGlove »

How do you intend, or not intend, to monetize this data? In other words, what are you going to do with my information?

I think it looks great and I'm really inclined to create a profile. However, I already get a ton of spam, and thanks to Linkedin, sales people now call me on my personal phone - something that isn't even exposed to anyone not in my network.

I worry about something like this needing to make money and getting bought by someone that needs the data. That said, I could just shut up and use it, since my data is already out there. :D

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

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Post by tanujraghav »

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…

Hi,

In the view of replies posted, I think profile pics (hereafter avatars) in colleague section are fine to have but dIefinitely not a necessity.

IMHO, here is an optimal solution:

Couldn't there be a two way option: whether i want to share my avatar in the circle, and if i want to look at other avatars?

It would be pretty effective.Lets say, I'm not interested in avatar of your colleagues, so i can turn them off or they would be in a drop down list. And say if I don't want you to see my avatar in colleagues section/list, I can turn it off from my side. So, you would only see a default avatar associated with my profile.

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

CVs should be done in times new roman font or some basic font that doesn't scream. As boring as possible. Use a LaTeX, microsoft word, or some basic document layout tool and make a resume. If you need to make the resume look pretty, you're making up for something. No offense meant. This is how the real world works - try applying to jobs with a beautiful resume.
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