... profile completion meter and a nagging banner that followed users until they filled it out. Completion rate after 90 days: 26%. We removed the meter and the banner for a test group. Completion rate in that group: 24%. Statistically unchanged. The nagging was doing almost nothing except annoying people. Then we looked at what actually correlated with profile

... happen once to be expensive, a post, a purchase, or a message sent from the wrong account with nothing in the UI warning you before it's too late. If you build or use browser agents across multiple profiles or environments, how do you avoid that. A hard confirmation step, distinct profile

... feel the fifteen years. The blue-and-white template. The dense wall of text posts stacked on top of each other. The same "3rd" badge next to every name. The same grey card shadows that haven't changed since profile redesigns were still called "beta." It is functional in the way a government form is functional. Nobody opens it because they want to. They open it because they feel they have to. Now scroll Instagram. Or Arc. Or Linear ... ... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative

... what the actual job entails. Developers have noticed. Only 12% of developers use LinkedIn as their main source of technical information, according to a Stack Overflow survey. Most are on the platform purely because they feel they have no alternative, not because they find it genuinely useful. The Fake Everything Problem LinkedIn has a trust problem that is getting dramatically worse, not better. In the second half of 2024, LinkedIn identified and removed 80.6 million fake accounts at the point ... ... using deepfake technology, AI-generated job descriptions, and automated recruiter bots to convincingly impersonate real companies, real recruiters, and even real HR executives, tricking developers into fake interviews and handing over personal data. Gartner expects one in four candidate profiles

... conversation started with one question. "Can you send me your resume?" In 2026, that question is slowly changing. The Story Last week, a friend of ours who works in HR at a startup in Kolkata came across two fresher profiles for the same role. Same year of graduation. Similar coursework. On paper, nearly identical. Candidate A had a beautifully designed two-page resume. Every section polished. Every skill listed. Every achievement quantified. The kind of resume that looks like ... ... took hours to format. Candidate B had a simple resume. Nothing fancy. But alongside it, there was a profile

... what I've tried so far: On X, I'm taking a build-in-public approach and sharing my coding journey and I leave the link in the comments. I've added the waitlist link to my social media profiles. When one of my LinkedIn posts performs well, I edit it afterwards and add a short call to action at the end, inviting people to join the waitlist. If a LinkedIn post isn't related to the tool ... ... like selling myself either, so I don't. What I do is write comparison pages between the competing products and mine, and put everything into ranking those. The people who land on them are already interested in a competitor

... people actually use is worth more than a polished to-do app nobody ever touched. Your GitHub Is a Storefront, Not a Storage Drive Most developers treat GitHub like a drawer where they throw unfinished experiments. GitHub profiles with optimized READMEs and consistent commit patterns receive 3x more profile

... everyone, I m Timur a web developer building small internet experiments. Right now I m working on Folkrain, a weird little social discovery project where social profiles fall down the screen like rain. The idea is simple: you add your Instagram profile

... made Folkrain as a simple experiment: social profiles falling like rain. You add your Instagram, write a short message, and your profile

... VibeAround can translate between OpenAI Responses, OpenAI Chat Completions, and Anthropic Messages. - More providers: DeepSeek, Qwen/DashScope, Kimi, MiniMax, Z.AI/GLM , Gemini, OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, and custom endpoints are easier to use from compatible local coding agents. - Reworked Launch/Profile UI: profiles, API routes, model selection, terminal/workspace selection, and per-agent launch state are now cleaner. - Better Claude Code / Codex API Bridge compatibility, including fixes for Qwen streaming and MiniMax reasoning output. - Fixed channel-only onboarding for ACP agents, so Codex pickup ... ... from IM works more reliably. - macOS Apple Silicon DMG is signed and notarized; Windows and Linux builds are available too. Important note: this release includes a breaking change to profile

... Match-3", "Idle", and "Casual". Each activates different analysis strategies. Analysis Areas The patterns to look for like "Conversion Funnel", "Revenue & Pricing", or "Customer Retention". Prompts Markdown instructions that guide the AI through exploration, analysis, and recommendations. Profile Schema A form where users describe their business KPIs, business model, product catalog so the AI can tailor its analysis. DecisionBox ships with built-in packs for E-Commerce , Gaming , Social Network , and Real Estate CRM . But you can create your ... ... where the magic happens. Prompts are markdown documents that tell the AI agent how to think about your industry. There are three base prompts: Base Context gives the agent background about the user's specific business. It includes {{PROFILE

... faced it myself, I didn't consider that all of us have different parts of our lives we need an editor for, and while sharing can work well for some, sometimes, you need a separate space entirely. Thus, profiles are here! prosaic --profile

... becoming visible on this platform also depend on how credible you appear. In the past, there were even bots on Product Hunt, which led to the introduction of certain measures: stricter moderation of published content (especially forum discussions), profile verification (green badge), mandatory use of real first and last names instead of random usernames. These steps help make profiles

... like when AI actually remembers users. The demo lets you experience it in 30 seconds. Chat Naturally Talk to the AI like you would any chatbot. Tell it about yourself your name, preferences, interests, anything. Watch Your Profile Build On the right side, you'll see a Profile

... before yesterday, I was looking at the profiles of founders and team members of Lovable, as well as other companies, e.g. Hubspot, and they all look pretty good. Lately, I ve been getting offers to help grow LinkedIn profiles

... There s no shortage of LinkedIn profile advice, but a lot of it feels disconnected from reality. In your experience: What profile

... term interaction with a human, they re basically goldfish. Today, I m excited to share something I ve been building to fix that: GetProfile is now open source a drop-in LLM proxy that gives your AI agents user profiles and long-term memory. It s Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hostable, and designed to slot into existing OpenAI-style stacks with minimal changes. Why another memory layer ? A lot of smart people are already working on AI memory. Projects like ... ... love that this space exists. But I also kept noticing a missing piece in my own projects: Most memory solutions are great at storing facts and messages. What I wanted was a way to maintain an evolving user profile

... sequence looks like this: Profile Paywall Lost in a Catalog Investor List Cold Outreach It s a storefront, not a strategy. Platforms like Fundable has no personalized matching, no curated dealflow, no learning loop, no shared context between investor and founder. It s simply SaaS for hope . The uncomfortable truth After working directly with funds and angel investors inside Unicorns Club , here s what became clear: Serious investors don t browse catalogs. Some of the investors who receive curated dealflow ... ... from us never even created a profile