Know Your Developer (KYD) Self-Check
Tell your developer story, clearly and objectively
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Tell your developer story, clearly and objectively
9 followers
KYD gives developers a clear, evidence-based snapshot of their professional profile. KYD Self-Check pulls together signals from code, research, credentials, and networks to highlight strengths, while also surfacing potential risk factors that could raise questions in a hiring process.
Hey Product Hunt - I'm thrilled to share what we’ve been working on. KYD Self-Check helps developers understand how their professional signals - code, résumé, projects, and activity - come together to shape their profile. It’s rules-based, transparent, and developer-controlled. We aggregate disparate signals to create a profile that is portable and private, or sharable.
The idea came from years of seeing incredible talent go unseen. We don’t have a talent shortage - we have a visibility problem. KYD exists to help developers see what their work says about them, and how to strengthen it.
It’s not about gamifying or scoring - it’s about making capability measurable and fair. The goal: a clearer, more human future of work. I’d love to hear what you think - especially from developers, new grads, and anyone who’s ever felt their potential was overlooked.
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The overall experience for creating a business account was very smooth. There were a few super minor hiccups, but this is a highly professional and great care has gone into the onboarding. I have to admit, I wish our on-boarding was 1/2 this good. I understand what is happening, and what steps were required. The initial screens talked me through what to expect, and even though I am rushing through it, I know what is going on.
In logging in as someone being evaluated, the process was simple and clean. I was able to move through it very quickly. the results did take a few minutes to complete, but I was made aware of that multiple times. I really appreciate the transparency of the app and the respect granted to the person being evaluated - as the full report is made available to them as well.
I used the KYD bot, and it was responsive. I checked on some core skills and library experience i know i have, but these were not picked up by the bot, so maybe some tweaking here to what it is aware of would be good - I don't think this is difficult, it is the work of building out a good context window and that can be tricky - also might be expensive to built a large context window, and those settings might be dialed way back for this demo. I really like the idea of having someones open source contributions summarized and available for inspection through a window like this.
Overall I can see high value in this tailed AI driven process and I think it will offer a significant boon to developers who are contributing to open source projects and have demonstrated skills that are out there and publicly available. There is a lot of effort in reviewing this code, but these people deserve that attention. It's a great way to get past the insane amount of generated nonsense hiring managers are currently drowning in.
In my opinion, this project deserves some attention.
Dan - thank you for the thoughtful and detailed feedback. I appreciate your perspective on both the onboarding and the transparency aspects - those were deliberate choices. Your points on the bot and context depth are well taken; it’s an area we’re refining carefully. We built KYD to give developers a credible way to represent their work - your reflections affirm we’re on the right path.