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Ask HN: What do you expect from a coders profile site?

by plunchete on 9/14/11, 6:53 PM with 7 comments

There are several sites creating profiles for coders right now. Some are listing your open source projects, others are have a reputation system for them and others creating just fancy profiles where you can add your stuff.

I'm the co-founder of a web site that makes profiles for developers (Site not disclosed to avoid people saying I'm promoting my site).

Our profiles contain verified information. We use Open Source, Stack Overflow and your actual code (thought webhooks in github and bitbucket) to build out our profiles. We don't just list your projects, we get the code and extract some meta data from them.

Our aim is to create your profile based on what you have done and create your identity pulling information from different sources and not filling forms about what you have done.

So, my question is, as a coder what do you expect from a site like this?

  • by ig1 on 9/14/11, 8:32 PM

    It sounds like you're building a solution without having a problem. You need to decide what the problem is that you're tackling before you can build a solution.

    Are you trying to build something that will let people quickly share what they're working on, are you building something that will act as a bio for people giving talks, are you building an alternative for a CV ?

  • by jolan on 9/14/11, 8:05 PM

    > We don't just list your projects, we get the code and extract some meta data from them.

    So you're cloning ohloh.com?

    > as a coder what do you expect from a site like this?

    Nothing really, github has done a nice job without even focusing on it.

  • by ig1 on 9/14/11, 7:41 PM