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Ask HN: Are there any 'Profile Page as a Service' available for developers?

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Do you guys know of any Profile Page as a Service for software developers, that can automatically fetch user's profile data from GitHub, UpWork, Freelancer, and other sites and show them all in one place like an updated RESUME?

If not, would you be willing to use such a service (FREE or PAID?) if it existed. And how much would you be willing to pay for such a service?

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gregjor
It’s called LinkedIn. You have to maintain your own profile but it has an audience of people looking to hire no other service has.
apexol
LinkedIn is not specific to software developers. And besides everything has to be added and updated regularly there "manually".

I was asking about a service that can pull data from GitHub (say the projects the user is actively committing currently), the active jobs on upwork, the reviews the developer got on those websites, and so forth.

sebmellen
Gregjor has the right answer. I know this might seem like a nice startup idea, but unless you know a group of people really feeling pained that there's no LinkedIn alternative, I would be wary. All good solutions start with a problem.
apexol
Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying here about asking people if the problem exists. I can actually connect with that part :).

I actually never thought of that idea as a LinkedIn alternative. Rather one thing that came to my mind when I thought of this was 'Dynamic Resume'.

choto
I had similar idea. I think you have very good addition which I did not think of. Let's try to discuss this in some chat.
tjosten
Funny you ask, me and other people built something like this a few years (actually 7 years…) ago. It never really got past a few hundred initial users, thus has been shut down meanwhile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125028

apexol
Wow, there we have it, a person who has already implemented this idea a long time back. So what made you shutdown the service? Would you be willing to share your experience?
tjosten
Simply put, lack of time maintaining it. It was rather a weekend-hack than a polished product.
apexol
But you had 100+ users, so the idea was validated.
Jefro118
I'm working on something just like this: https://profiled.app. There's a lot of improvements to make still and I a lot of features I intend to add to make it much more than simply a data aggregator.
apexol
Great. That's exactly what I was thinking.