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32 points by preetsojitra ↗ HN
Hi HN,

I saw joke online about wanting a version of Linkedin for failures. I thought it was a great idea, so I decided to build a simple version of it.

Sinkedin is a place to post (anonymously) stories about job rejections, interview screw-ups and other carrer failures.

Website: https://www.sinkedin.app/ Github: https://github.com/Preet-Sojitra/sinkedin

I am not a designer, so the UI is very minimalistic. If it triggers your OCD, PRs are very welcome.

The entire stack is running on free tiers, so please expect some latency if it gets any traffic. I wanted to ship it fast and see if the idea has legs before spending money.

Happy to answer any questions.

8 comments

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chdavid
Think this is funny. How did you make the website? Asking out of of curiosity, it looks like one I made with Windsurf a while back
felix089
fun concept, but why require sign up at all? anon posting seems central to the idea and spam could be managed through creative system design, at least in the early stages
preetsojitra
Hi thanks for the feedback. I will make signup optional and will figure out way to handle spam. It would be great if you can throw some ideas of handling spam by creative system design. I am not experienced developer and trying to learn as much as I can.
karmakaze
The site doesn't seem to understand what anonymously means: "Continue with Google"?

What's the point of having a barrier of creating a throwaway email to post a story?

preetsojitra
You are right. I apologize for the confusing experience. My only reason to sign-up was to prevent spam. Based on this feedback, I will make it optional.

Thank you for the feedback.

djfobbz
I'm still using shlinkedin.com pretty heavily!
SoominH
I was excited to try “Explore the Chaos” and wanted to share something — just a quick, anonymous post — but I saw I had to log in.

It felt like a bit of a barrier.

Would love an option to leave a one-time message without signing in, almost like dipping a toe into the chaos before diving in fully.

preetsojitra
Hi thanks for the feedback. I am planning to make login fully optional. Will be implemented in next update.