Do people need a personal profile platform beyond LinkedIn and Linktree?
We’re building an early-stage platform around a simple belief:
People are more than a résumé, a short bio, or a list of links.
Today:
LinkedIn shows your professional side
Linktree shows where to find you
Portfolios show selected work
Social platforms show your latest posts
But none of them really help someone understand:
Who are you? What do you care about? What are you building? What are you becoming?
That is the gap we’re exploring.
What we’re building
A deep, customizable personal profile platform where users can create a richer digital identity.
A profile can include pages like:
Identity
Skills
Education
Experience
Projects
Content
Links
Contact
But users are not locked into a fixed structure.
They can:
Rename pages
Add new pages
Delete pages
Edit every section
Create a profile that reflects their real identity and journey
For example:
A founder might create What I’m Building
A designer might rename Education to Tools I Use
A student might add Learning Journey
A creator might build Ideas, Writing & Videos
What makes it different
We are not building another feed-based social network.
The center of the product is the person, not the timeline.
We want profiles to show depth, not just highlights.
Instead of only saying:
“Product Designer”
someone could explain:
How they learned it
Why they care about it
The projects where they used it
What they are learning next
Why we’re sharing this here
We are still very early, and we’re looking for honest feedback from builders, makers, and people who think about online identity.
We’d love your thoughts on:
Does this problem feel real?
Who do you think would need this most?
Would you personally create and maintain a profile like this?
What would make it valuable enough to use instead of, or alongside, LinkedIn / Linktree / a personal site?
We’re still shaping the product, so thoughtful criticism is genuinely helpful.
Replies
I think the problem is real, especially for founders, creators, and indie builders who don’t fit neatly into a résumé format.
The challenge isn’t profile creation though it's giving people a strong reason to keep updating and sharing it regularly.
@geralt__edwardThat’s a very sharp point — and honestly, we agree.
Creating a profile is only the first step. The bigger challenge is making it feel alive and worth maintaining, instead of becoming another static page people forget about.
We’re thinking deeply about what could create that ongoing value — for example, helping people continuously reflect their journey, new projects, evolving skills, ideas, and progress in a way that feels useful to share, not like a chore.
So yes, the real question for us is:
How do we make a profile something people want to return to, update, and use as part of their online identity?
Really appreciate you highlighting that.
Also, if you have any ideas on how we can make that ongoing use stronger, I’d genuinely love to hear them. And if this direction interests you enough to think about it more closely with me, I’d be open to connecting.
The problem is real, but the hard part isn’t richer profiles it's making them useful to other people in a clear, repeatable way.
If it helps with discovery, trust, or opportunities , then it has a strong chance of becoming something people actually maintain.
@jaydon_calhoun That’s a very strong point — and I completely agree.
A richer profile alone is not enough. It has to create clear value for the person viewing it, not just the person building it.
We’re thinking about exactly those three areas you mentioned:
Discovery — helping the right people find each other
Trust — showing more meaningful context than a résumé or short bio
Opportunities — making it easier for collaboration, hiring, partnerships, or community connections to happen
If the platform can help people be better understood and create real outcomes from that understanding, then they’ll have a real reason to maintain it.
Really appreciate this perspective. If you have any further thoughts on how discovery, trust, or opportunity should work in a product like this, I’d genuinely love to hear them.
I'm already managing a handful of socials, I don't know if I'd be interested in one more
@shahana_rasheed We don’t want to become just one more social platform people have to manage. The goal is to create a single deeper profile that helps represent the parts of you that are scattered across LinkedIn, social media, portfolios, and link pages.
But your point is important: unless it gives people a clear reason to use it — better self-expression, better discovery, stronger trust, or real opportunities — they won’t want another profile to maintain.
Really appreciate you calling this out.
@riyazhossaini Good luck building your idea!
@shahana_rasheed @riyazhossaini I think you will need to establish your platform first. Masses will follow once you bring influential stars.
This is actually a really cool idea! A lot of people get sucked into the noise and robotic nature of LinkedIn and socially media in general. It's hard for the average person to feel authentic. Something I would consider adding is passion causes. I volunteer my time to help my City, but that can't really be captured in LinkedIn all that much. My identity as a professional who also cares deeply about community is missing from my general online persona. Having a safe space to more easily connect with others who have similar causes would be cool.
@milescwardThank you — this is exactly the kind of gap we want to solve.
A person’s online identity should not be reduced to job titles, achievements, or polished “professional” updates. What they care about, the causes they support, and the communities they contribute to are often just as important.
I really like your idea of passion causes. It could let people show things like:
Causes they care about
Volunteer work
Community contributions
Why those issues matter to them
And your point about helping people connect around shared causes is especially interesting. That could make the platform feel not just more authentic, but more human.
Really appreciate this feedback — we’ll seriously think about how this can fit into the product.
Also, if you have any more ideas on how we can shape this better, I’d genuinely love to hear them. And if this direction excites you and you’d like to think about it more closely with me, I’d be open to connecting.
I have a few more ideas in this area. Don't know how we can collaborate or work together if you agree.
But yes, we need something more than just the current market setup, and people should adopt that.
@sumit_shevade Yeah, perfect — let’s connect! You can message me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyazhossaini/
@riyazhossaini Sent you a request on LinkedIn. Let's connect. Look forward to the fruitful discussions.
The gap is real most platform compress identity into either a resume or a feed, and neither captures context or evolution well.
The hard part will be getting people to continuously maintain something richer than LinkedIn without it feeling like extra work.
It would be great if you enable an option to import info from other platforms. As a user, I might not create a profile because it would be too much work to enter basic details again.