Openspot - A modern, no-BS alternative to LinkedIn
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Openspot helps you share your professional potential through thoughtful prompts, short videos, and audio clips, not just boring resumes. It makes finding jobs and connecting with others feel friendly, meaningful, and way less scary.
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Manna
This sounds like a fantastic approach to job searching!
It’s really impressive that you can search in natural language! I think it’s truly amazing and will soon surpass LinkedIn.
Fable Wizard
I love how Openspot focuses on creating genuine, human profiles instead of the typical, rigid resume formats—we need more of that in today's job market! How customizable is the profile in terms of design and content, and can users really showcase their unique skills and personality effectively?
Openspot
@jonurbonas Thanks, Jonas! With thoughtful prompts, video, and audio, users are able to stand out and connect meaningfully. It’s free and quick to set up, would love for you to check it out!
Openspot
@ursula_rosien1 happy to hear that, lets goo!
With all the wearisomeness of AI-ness and personal branding-ness, Openspot is definitely refreshing. I often wonder why people prefer Linked In type of containers to open air perfumed fields filled with professional people just in their normal I-am-what-I-am personality and fashion, chumping hotdogs and just telling what they do for a living.
Congrats on the HN launch. Here is a little feedback for you.
The value proposition for workers is the claim that they are more likely to get interviews if they present what amounts to a more elaborate resume. That seems to run counter to the traditional advice.
Your AI did not do a good job summarizing my experience from the resume.
I didn't see any data privacy notice while onboarding. I know that it is early days for you but still this is 2025.
The value proposition is directly tied to network effects. Hopefully, you are focusing on employers somewhere else and will start being able to make claims of network size sometime in the future.
Linked In doesn't cater to consultants much. Would that be an opportunity for openspot or does that dilute the brand?
Magicam
Great tool for job seekers!
Surgeflow
🎉 Huge congrats on the PH launch and hitting #1, Julian @fliellerjulian & Openspot team! 🚀 As someone who’s so over LinkedIn’s noise, your focus on "human-first" profiles with video/audio intros is a breath of fresh air. Love the natural-language recruiter search—genius for cutting through resume clutter! 👏
One tiny ask: Could you add industry-specific tags to profiles? For example, tagging "#AIProductManager" would help recruiters niche-search faster. Also, maybe a "collab mode" where users can team up for project showcases? 🤝
Either way, rooting for you guys—this is the future of hiring! Curious: What’s next on your roadmap?
Openspot
Thanks @rocsheh , we really appreciate it! 🙏
Love the collab mode idea, this is already in our backlog! Join our Discord and you'll get the inside scoop on what's coming next 👀