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       Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
        
       Author : _andychung
       Score  : 290 points
       Date   : 2021-01-04 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (read.cv)
 (TXT) w3m dump (read.cv)
        
       | css wrote:
       | I have been using represent.io for this purpose; nice to see some
       | competition in this space.
        
       | lordlarm wrote:
       | 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 would have some reason to check
       | in; and I guess either building up "company profiles" where I
       | could see people who work in a certain company or indeed an
       | interesting way to find companies and open positions would be
       | great.
       | 
       | I love the "features" section and the focus on adding people
       | you've worked closely with.
       | 
       | As you are - it seems - involved in Quip too, I'm cheeky enough
       | to add some feedback in that product: fix notifications (!) -
       | managing and keeping track of them is close to impossible, make
       | it easier to actually discuss higher level on a particular
       | document (not per line, and the comments in the sidebar
       | disappears quickly) and lastly please add support for collapsing
       | certain sections of a document :-)
        
         | rotbart wrote:
         | Overall would recommend leveraging the schema from JSONResume
         | (https://jsonresume.org/schema/) that supports all of the above
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | 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!
        
       | krmmalik wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | krmmalik wrote:
           | Yes. I'm interested in the personal website aspect.
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | udfalkso wrote:
       | Very cool!
       | 
       | One thing I'd need to have if I continue to play with it is some
       | toggle for public/draft. Right now it seems my profile is
       | immediately public but I'm not sure I want to keep it yet, and
       | it's still a WIP even if I do. Thanks!
        
       | jgurewitz wrote:
       | I really dig this. Well done.
       | 
       | I like the collaborator feature.
       | 
       | One piece of feedback, I almost missed the contact information at
       | the bottom of the profile. Any chance of having a preferred
       | contact at the top so it's harder to miss?
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab
         | handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
        
       | saos wrote:
       | Clean and simple!
        
       | alexjray wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Have definitely been thinking about how to make sections more
         | customizable as I'll never be able to make the defaults cover
         | every use case. What bugs are you encountering?
        
           | swyx wrote:
           | perhaps you could implement a simple feedback/bug report
           | button so that people can send it in in context. i like
           | encouraging using Loom too, since its free
        
       | twobitshifter wrote:
       | There are 27 photos at the bottom on mobile? Who are these
       | people? If these are example profiles I would try to get a more
       | diverse and inclusive grouping. There is not a woman in the 27
       | and ideally it would be 50/50
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and
         | unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
        
           | camdenlock wrote:
           | "Unfortunately".
           | 
           | What a ridiculous culture we've built if this sentiment is
           | widely accepted. Just bizarre.
        
             | [deleted]
        
         | xyzelement wrote:
         | Does it make sense to speak about the composition of a group
         | without understanding what the group membership represents?
         | 
         | Eg: what if that's the list of people who gave him financial
         | support building it? What if it's his buddies from the Navy
         | SEALS? Perhaps it's a list of sexual predators in his area?
         | Should it still be 50/50...
         | 
         | Though I agree it's not clear what those pics on the bottom
         | represent.
        
       | h327 wrote:
       | The design is really elegant! I could see myself using this if I
       | could make my CV unlisted / un-indexed. I used to have a public
       | resume, but then recruiters found it and relentlessly spammed me
       | with irrelevant recruiting offers, and also spread my resume to
       | more and more recruiting spam networks.
       | 
       | I also wonder if you have a plan for monetization; I didn't see a
       | FAQ about content rights / usage / pricing.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter
         | spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of
         | comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how
         | to better support this.
         | 
         | In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect
         | free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I
         | could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs
         | section or something.
        
       | jariel wrote:
       | You folks may want to reconsider having photos in CVs.
       | 
       | Not only are people going to be very strongly biased by race,
       | ethnicity etc., but also by the trivialities of presentation:
       | dress, apparent attitude, choice of background. All of those
       | things signal 'personal brand'.
       | 
       | These things are becoming 'far too important' in terms of how we
       | evaluate each other and this development is really lacking in
       | self awareness for a generation of folks who are supposed to be
       | against this kind of stuff.
       | 
       | Secondarily, I'm wary that overall, this is just contributes to
       | the 'life resume BS' competition of filling up your professional
       | profile with rubbish to make you seem engaged - much like 'GitHub
       | commits' as some kind of signal of validity.
       | 
       | At least with LinkedIn it's considered to be 'professional' i.e.
       | this is your 'work presentation' - the casual nature of these new
       | CVs tries to blend some personal and aspiration aspects so as to
       | make the individual seem more 'authentic'. This is a creeping
       | cultural problem and might be the source of a lot of baseline
       | social conflict in the office. It's a 'place of work' - your
       | hobbies are nice, but not relevant.
        
       | bmallerd wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | vaillant wrote:
       | Very cool, and great use of the read.cv domain name.
        
       | samirsd wrote:
       | my only gripe is that it takes too many clicks to change your
       | profile photo, otherwise looks amazing!
        
       | ttamslam wrote:
       | 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!
        
         | I_am_tiberius wrote:
         | Yes it's great. But why does he wear slippers outside?
        
           | bigdict wrote:
           | Birkenstocks + white socks, classic.
        
           | mav3rick wrote:
           | Those aren't slippers. Those are birkenstocks!
        
             | _andychung wrote:
             | Haha yup
        
             | cjjuice wrote:
             | with socks?!
        
               | mav3rick wrote:
               | Yes, there's some controversy but it's definitely a thing
               | to wear them with socks.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Wow thank you! It was definitely a fun project.
        
         | eitland wrote:
         | 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_.
        
           | adamredwoods wrote:
           | Oddly didn't work so well on my Chrome (I have 100+ tabs
           | open), but did great on Firefox.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | I saw the world "mindful", and groaned.
        
         | camdenlock wrote:
         | Also saw the addition of the pronouns section and cringed. I
         | hope such expressions of religious affiliation are optional.
        
           | sebdufbeau wrote:
           | They are optional, but I'm not sure what pronouns have to do
           | with religion.
        
       | swamy_g wrote:
       | (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.
        
         | spockz wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | qorrect wrote:
           | > Most great work is done in teams.
           | 
           | But most teams don't produce great work - it's all dependent
           | on the team makeup, bringing it back around to individuals.
           | 
           | I wish I was on a great team again - they seem harder and
           | harder to find.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | The idea is that you're able to (optionally) tag coworkers and
         | collaborators in your work experience and projects. Although
         | this doesn't track 1:1 with the traditional CV use case, it
         | felt like a great way to celebrate the people you work with and
         | create lightweight endorsements.
         | 
         | If you choose to print or save your profile as a PDF these tags
         | are hidden automatically, making it much more of a traditional
         | CV, appropriate for job applications etc.
        
           | JoshTriplett wrote:
           | It isn't any form of "endorsement" if you can add them
           | without confirmation from the person you're tagging.
        
             | tmhrtly wrote:
             | I think you are lightweight endorsing them, not the other
             | way around.
        
               | JoshTriplett wrote:
               | Their image appearing on a CV feels (inaccurately) like
               | an endorsement of that CV, given people's typical goals
               | when looking at a CV.
        
           | SavannahJS wrote:
           | First off - cool project, nice work!
           | 
           | Just riffing off some ideas for the 'coworkers and
           | collaborators' section as well since I agree that I wouldn't
           | find it useful as a sometimes-recruiter in its current state.
           | 
           | I think the section could do with some more structure or
           | information given. E.g. instead of just loose association
           | with other folks who work at the same company, break
           | associations into 'reports to', 'close teammates', 'manages'
           | (or make that information visible on hover or something).
           | There's probably a pretty cool hierarchical way to show this
           | information but maybe people would find that too invasive. As
           | someone who conducts interviews pretty often, understanding a
           | person's team structure would definitely be useful, and would
           | still serve the 'social proof' function you've described.
           | 
           | The collaborator's title while they were involved with that
           | specific project might also make it easier to parse what the
           | working relationship was between the CV owner and the
           | collaborator as well.
        
       | maltris wrote:
       | Like it, cool feature would be: Some kind of passphrase-
       | protection or option to make the profile private.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from
         | people who would like to hide their profile from their current
         | employer.
        
       | molloy wrote:
       | Very nice!
       | 
       | So, in Safari on iOS 14, the view demo link brought me to a page
       | that was mostly blank besides the name and picture. I turned on a
       | screen recording to capture the bug, but then was unable to
       | reproduce it (started the recording on this page and followed the
       | link again.) I should have thought to screenshot the page before
       | doing so, oh well! Maybe it was due to a failed XHR request for
       | the profile data, if the pages are being rendered client-side.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird
         | connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
        
       | ColinWright wrote:
       | Some feedback from a random internet person, take it with a
       | fistful of salt.
       | 
       | Why are there non-functioning arrows next to the names of
       | projects, companies, _etc._?
       | 
       | Why does it keep randomly re-rendering while I'm trying to read
       | something?
       | 
       | The design is, no doubt to some people, gorgeous, but I'm finding
       | the landing page example completely unusable. If it's intended to
       | show off capability then it needs to be clear that that's the
       | purpose. If it's intended to be usable then it needs to be re-
       | thought.
       | 
       | (Later)
       | 
       | Ah, when I go to an actual example then the arrow isn't
       | functional, but the text on which the arrow is placed, is a link.
       | 
       | My reaction ... I don't want it to be discoverable, requiring
       | exploration to work out the functionality. I want it to be
       | immediately obvious, using existing internet norms. If I visit
       | for the purpose of looking at a CV I don't want to have to learn
       | how to use the site, I want to get the information I'm looking
       | for.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned the arrows indicate
         | that the project is an outbound link (links are optional so
         | having a visual indication that something is linked was
         | necessary, though there are certainly other ways this could be
         | achieved).
         | 
         | Pages subscribe to updates in real time, so I think you just so
         | happened to be viewing a profile as it was being edited. Seems
         | like live updates should probably only be on for the editor.
         | 
         | As for the landing page I'm hoping to redo this in general. As
         | a quick first version I just embedded an actual profile so I
         | wouldn't have to update image assets as the design changed, but
         | I can see how this approach is confusing.
        
       | Exuma wrote:
       | text way too small and hard to read, by like an order of
       | magnitude
        
       | eplanit wrote:
       | I stumbled at "Mindful", and then stopped fully at "He/him".
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | maltris wrote:
       | Like it. A nice feature would be: Some kind of password-
       | protection or private mode.
        
       | asimjalis wrote:
       | Nice work. Quick feedback. Instead of (or in addition to) using
       | Google to authenticate could you use LinkedIn? That way the site
       | could pull my information from LinkedIn instead of making me
       | enter it again.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be
         | awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.
        
       | eyelidlessness wrote:
       | 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).
        
         | mxuribe wrote:
         | > ...structured resume formats like FRESH...
         | 
         | I've never heard of this (FRESH), and am intrigued and
         | interested. Would you kindly share some more info on this?
        
           | indymike wrote:
           | There's also HR Open Standards Candidate as well.
        
         | vaillant wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | DavidAdams wrote:
         | This is a good suggestion. If I've already gone to the trouble
         | to make a machine-readable resume, it would be nice to at least
         | seed my CV with the data from that file.
        
         | olegp wrote:
         | Would you be able to provide a link to the FRESH format you
         | mention? What other structured resume formats are there in
         | widespread use?
        
           | photonios wrote:
           | In Europe, EUROPASS is not uncommon:
           | https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | eyelidlessness wrote:
           | 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.
        
       | edoceo wrote:
       | I can't swipe or otherwise close the left menu once it's open
       | (Android/pixel3/chrome)
       | 
       | Remember resume.json spec that was on here a few years ago? Any
       | plans to support that?
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | I haven't implemented gestures to open the sidebar yet
         | unfortunately - currently to close the sidebar on mobile either
         | tap the right edge of the screen (the sliver of the detail), or
         | tap a navigation item in the sidebar.
        
       | jshmrsn wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your
         | data.
        
       | _andychung wrote:
       | 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, status updates, and print optimized profiles.
       | 
       | It took me around three months (Sept to November) to get it out
       | the door, and I've been working on making improvements since.
       | Open to any questions or feedback!
        
         | potiuper wrote:
         | How was the experience with setting up a Cape Verde entity for
         | the domain? Any issues or regrets?
        
           | _andychung wrote:
           | I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I
           | didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried
           | again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration
           | process and I haven't had any issues so far.
        
           | adambyrtek wrote:
           | I guess you simply purchase the domain. Just like bit.ly
           | which, as far as I know, doesn't have an entity in Libya.
        
         | rodolphoarruda wrote:
         | 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!
        
         | russomi wrote:
         | Well done. I'm going to use it.
        
         | neom wrote:
         | Hey Andy, I never received the verification email. je at
         | h4x.club
        
           | MattGaiser wrote:
           | Check your junk. That is where mine ended up.
        
             | neom wrote:
             | Ha, thanks. Went past spam and straight to trash for some
             | reason. First time I've seen that from a signup.
        
             | _andychung wrote:
             | Welp, sorry about that. Wonder if the .cv tld makes has
             | anything to do with this...
        
               | MattGaiser wrote:
               | What are you using for your email backend?
        
               | _andychung wrote:
               | The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
        
       | fuddle wrote:
       | This looks cool, really nice design. It would be good to list a
       | few more example profiles, it's hard to get an idea of what a
       | profile would look like by only seeing yours.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the
         | homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
        
       | gwbas1c wrote:
       | Maybe try some screenshots that imply the target use cases?
       | 
       | IE:
       | 
       | Why would I use this when I have a profile on LinkedIn?
       | 
       | Why would I use this when I could just put a resume up on my
       | website?
        
         | 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
         | Vs. LinkedIn: I started using it in 2009, but it's become
         | virtually unusable for me. The only reason I haven't deleted my
         | account is it has up to date contact information for my 1,300
         | LinkedIn connections.
        
       | vbtemp wrote:
       | 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 annoyed 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 wish there
       | was a way to do it that does not involve people's pictures.
        
         | nchelluri wrote:
         | I agree with what you've said. I like the site and I think it's
         | very nice, but I dislike headshots.
         | https://twostepsforward.co/2015/10/on-web-authorship-trends/
        
         | etrautmann wrote:
         | 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
         | question then whether this works for users.
        
       | pranade wrote:
       | Love the design -- pretty cool work!
        
       | JamesAdir wrote:
       | Looks great! Could you share details about your stack? Would live
       | to learn more about it.
        
       | waynesonfire wrote:
       | beautiful design.
        
       | marcinzm wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | I'm thinking of simply truncating collaborators after a certain
         | number and offering the ability to open the full list in a
         | modal or something.
        
       | danaliv wrote:
       | This is awesome! I'd recommend adding a section for
       | certifications. I have a bunch of FAA certs that are career-
       | relevant but they don't fit naturally into any of the existing
       | profile sections.
       | 
       | I'd also suggest making some of the fields wider. 24 characters
       | for location isn't going to be long enough, for example.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested
         | are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding
         | these soon.
        
       | alanchen wrote:
       | Would be wonderful if the status can be synced with my Twitter
       | account!
       | 
       | Also would definitely pay for it I can use a custom domain.
        
       | aabbcc1241 wrote:
       | Looks not bad on mobile phone but the font size can be made
       | bigger.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | For sure, have heard this a few times now.
        
       | 6510 wrote:
       | the Side Projects links here don't work https://read.cv/about
        
       | andygcook wrote:
       | 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) * It would be nice to be able to
       | customize the invite message when inviting a collaborator. * The
       | Create a Profile button on the homepage doesn't user cursor:
       | pointer, which made me miss that it was the sign up button at
       | first glance. * It looks like most of the links don't have
       | cursor: pointer, which feels off to me * Once I saved my profile,
       | it took me a minute to find the edit button in the bottom left
       | 
       | Overall, nice working and I'm looking forward to following the
       | updates. Also, great first name you have there.
        
         | vulcan01 wrote:
         | > 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.
         | 
         | Another option is to have the "view example" button visible
         | even before the user scrolls.
        
         | _andychung wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | NikolaNovak wrote:
           | Yes please; personally, I've had couple of decades of
           | training and habits that a change in cursor indicates
           | clickability; without my cursor changing, it feels like a
           | static image, not interactive page.
           | 
           | Otherwise, awesome sauce :)
        
             | bagels wrote:
             | No cursor on mobile, so it's not enough.
        
           | JoshTriplett wrote:
           | > 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.
           | 
           | The cursor isn't the only problem. The way you present the
           | screenshot fundamentally _looks_ like a functional profile.
           | It isn 't just that the links look like links but aren't
           | clickable. Text also isn't selectable. In general, it's in
           | the uncanny valley that feels really uncomfortable. Consider
           | making it look very obviously like a sample screenshot:
           | caption it at the top, move it to the side beside (rather
           | than above) the explanation of the site, layer a couple of
           | profiles atop each other so they look like "sheets", or
           | similar. Those would help trip people's "ah, it's a sample
           | screenshot" pattern recognition.
        
             | _andychung wrote:
             | Totally, on my to do list to redo the homepage with more
             | abstracted product visuals!
        
           | WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
           | 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)
        
           | paulgrahamsack wrote:
           | #nit - an affordance is something that can be done, a
           | signifier is a visual clue that you can do something
           | 
           | https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94265/whats-the-
           | diffe....
        
       | throwaway212135 wrote:
       | Why did you add your personal pronouns? I don't understand why we
       | are stating the obvious here.
        
       | whiddershins wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | orky56 wrote:
       | 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/# users/etc.)
        
         | ajkjk wrote:
         | oh god please don't make an engineer (at least) prove their
         | worth in a bunch of silly metrics
        
           | erikig wrote:
           | This made me chuckle. Having been an outsourced technical
           | partner for a number of marketing agencies, I completely feel
           | your pain.
        
       | throwaway212135 wrote:
       | Why did you add in your personal pronouns? Are you saying that
       | there are more than 2 sexes? Can you just change your sex with
       | the flip of a switch? Let's end this trend of adding our pronouns
       | to every social profile.
        
       | 42droids wrote:
       | It's pretty awesome. Great job.
       | 
       | I have been working on a similar project aimed at content
       | creators - they also need their LinkedIn. The idea is that you
       | can build your Authentic Profile by connecting your social APIs.
       | It's called Authentic https://authenticstats.com and it's growing
       | fast. :)
       | 
       | Good luck with your project.
        
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