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Dinesh Senapati

SpringRole - A LinkedIn alternative on the blockchain

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SpringRole is enabling everyone’s #VerifiedProfessionalProfile on the Blockchain. It is a decentralised attestation-based professional network built on top of Ethereum. The platform is powered by Blockstack & uses its decentralised storage system of GAIA.

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Nitin Sharma
The team has done a great job simplifying the user experience for the average user, and building growth hacking tools like advisor verification (given the widespread problem of people claiming advisory roles).
Christopher Lee
How does it being on the blockchain make the experience better for me as a user?
Abhash Kumar
Maker
@christopher_lee4 if you mean the exact UX itself, then we do concede that the current UX challenges that plague the blockchain ecosystem remain. That means that this is a less-than-ideal experience for those set of users who aren't aware of/have experienced a blockchain UX in the past. However, overall being on the blockchain means. 1. Decentralized - you own your data 2. Verified profiles - brings objective authenticity to edu/work exp. 3. Weighted skill endorsements 4. Token economics ensures actions on platform primed for users, eliminates annoying ads Blockchain = all data once attested is immutable We (and the broader blockchain ecosystem) are working hard on the UX challenge. We hope that won't be an issue some time down the road.
Christopher Lee
@abhash_kumar2 Cool, that makes sense, I think once you overcome that hurdle the value prop will be super strong. By the way seeing as you just launched I have a market research service where for $12 you can ask 100 people a question then follow-up based on how they answered and even interview them! https://scoops.io/ You could ask e.g. "Would you abandon linkedIn for a professional social network that was decentralized?" and then talk to the people who answered "yes". Anyway If you want to give it a shot feel free to sign up and let me know which email you used over Intercom and I'll pass you $12 in free credits. Best of luck otherwise!
Kartik Mandaville
Maker
@abhash_kumar2 @christopher_lee4 thats a great service. Who can you interview with this?
Christopher Lee
@abhash_kumar2 @kar2905 You can interview the people who answered, down to the person. So far people have been using Scoops to source interview candidates, and sometimes just to dig deeper on someone for example who left a great comment and they want to learn more from them!
Pragyan Dalmia
Great concept. It's good to see that the product are being made for the decentralised world and they are giving the control over data back to us.
yashasvi chaudhry
It's an amazing product. I tried it and I was very happy. Great efforts from the team!
Naman Sarawagi

networks owned by the network is a good idea.

Pros:

verified data token incentives

Cons:

none.

Vaibhav Sisinty

I love the UI and import features from LinkedIn.

Pros:

Dope idea and execution.

Cons:

Still needs a lot of users to adopt the product.

VivekoMON

People will no longer require to validate work expertise and experience over and over. Roles, Teams, Advisory, Tokens etc can all be managed and securely validated all while maintaining professional attestation and user's privacy. Potential game changer to faster background checks, dating, hiring, lending, startup team validations, prevent users/investors/partners from being scammed, cheated. Future is here!

Pros:

A decentralized professional attestation platform. A disrupt to traditional centralized platforms.

Cons:

Needs more professionals switching over to Springrole!

Daeshawn Ballard
I like this idea, having worked at a startup where we too were trying to match jobs to resumes "Imagine Careers" albeit a bit differently (we shut down), I can definitely relate to your origin story. I'm glad to see someone from that niche pivot into something cool.
Franco Sun
Springrole sounds awfully like springroll...which is a Chinese household snack
Sandhya Sheshadri

This is the future.

Pros:

It's what the world needs now. Eliminate the need of trust between two parties ensuring 100% transparency.

Cons:

Initial networking and trust building is tough.

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