... then one person replied: I am unemployable. What does that mean? Does the person not have enough skills? Is he so autonomous that he doesn t like having another authority figure (an employer)? I reckon it was this. And it made me think: Once you are a builder  are you able to be in the position of an employee? Since I started freelancing, I do not like the idea that I would belong to someone who would decide about ... ... free time, vacation etc. or supervise whether I have other side jobs. Or is it just excuse for people who do not work more traditionally? Comment from Lisa(@yelyzaveta_kibets): I am employed

... adjacent to launches Srinivas (Perplexity), Kothari (Notion), Perkins (Canva), Mensch (Mistral), Pei (Nothing)   flagged as likely match artifacts  (could be namesakes) unless confirmed.  18.5% are ex-Big Tech , with  2.9 larger  audiences. Top prior employers (descending):  Google 62, Microsoft 47, Meta 41, Amazon 37, Apple 36 . Geography:  US 522, India 160  (India nearly matches US reception). Schools: UC, Stanford, Oxford, Cornell, Tel Aviv. Part 3. What actually works at launch Teams ... ... solo 123 2 3 = 188 4+ = 288; blended multi-maker avg ~227 vs

... Finding a job abroad is difficult. Finding one where visa sponsorship is actually relevant can be even harder. I m building SponsorAJobs to solve this specific problem. SponsorAJobs is a job discovery platform focused on visa-sponsored and international employment opportunities . Instead of making candidates search through general job boards and manually figure out whether sponsorship may be available, we're building a more focused experience around sponsorship, location, profession, and employer

... that in this era, creating your own product with the help of AI can be an important safety net. Have you experienced AI taking away a type of work you used to do (and did it make you less employable)? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @emanuel_comsa  I still think that the capacity of the people they will hire will be fewer than before. Comment from Sagar Deore(@sagar_deore): @busmark_w_nika the part about losing ... ... coding knowledge, I can feel him. So does this is the reason nowadays I'm keep thinking about what work AI cannot replace. Comment from Alex Gidirim(@alex_gidirim): @busmark_w_nika   I do, actually I'm the employer

... this is my first time using Product Hunt so I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Brandon Boushy. I have an MBA and HVAC Engineering Degree with a minor in facility management, but I have been self-employed since 2017. I started out my self employment

... What I genuinely can't tell yet is this: did the app bring new companies in, or did it just make the existing ones happier? My honest expectation was the second, because most people arrive already invited by their employer. You can start from the app the login screen has both "register a company" and "I'm self-employed

... Hello Everyone, I'm Gurmit, a founder from UK. I originally built a job search where people can search live jobs from employers' website. Mine job search was different- it could discover from government sectors, employer

... 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 in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... title, company, dates, a skills list nobody verifies. It was designed for r sum s on the internet, and it still looks and behaves like a r sum on the internet, even now that "professional identity" means something much bigger than an employment

... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real 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 ... ... Profile Format Was Built for Someone Else Now set aside the feed entirely and look at the profile itself. LinkedIn's profile structure makes complete sense if your career is: company A, then company B, then company C. Employment

... build practical AI products across education, employment, decision support, real estate, and business automation. My focus is turning complicated real-world problems into tools that feel clear, useful, and accessible. I m here to learn from other founders, improve how I bring products to market, share what I m building over time, and connect with people creating meaningful technology. Comment from Stacy Wycoff(@stacywycof83995): Jahrat, good to connect the dots, education, employment

... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole thread. i caught myself drafting DMs that were basically upvote asks in a nicer outfit. what actually worked was showing up in threads like this one for weeks with nothing ... ... most important thing is to launch as soon as you can and keep iterating to improve, and keep launching Especially with how fast everything is moving with AI, waiting for a perfect time to launch will just let competitors

... simplest answer seems to be building your own business so you don't have to worry whether you'll still be employable at 50 or 55. But let me use my own country as an example: In Slovakia, the retirement age is around 65, and it keeps increasing. At the same time, our pension system is under pressure because there aren't enough working people to support it, but that's a separate discussion. The reality is that many people ... ... agenda in technology seem to be under 30, or at least that's how I see it. How should we approach ageing and preventing "ageing unemployment"? Not only from the perspective of an individual who wants to remain employable

... Because they do not prove anything a hiring manager does not already assume. Everyone who completed a course built a to-do app. It signals I completed a tutorial, not I can solve real problems. 84% of employers want to see working applications, not just code repositories. The distinction matters. A repo is a codebase. A working application is proof that you can take something from code to deployed reality, handle real-world edge cases, think about users, and finish ... ... your application for thirty seconds will default to the first clear signal they can read. Which, for most developers, is still a resume. The fragmentation problem is real. GitHub shows code. A personal site shows selected highlights. LinkedIn shows employment

... were building. Comment from Anna Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): @austinbuhl  Interesting that you land on problem-first for Salestrics but demo-first as a viewer. Do you think there's a difference between what convinces you to look closer versus what you'd actually put in your own launch copy? And on "most startups" - is there a specific kind of team you picture hitting that per-seat pricing wall, or is it genuinely everyone past a certain size? Comment from ... ... Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): @picspace  "What changed for the user" instead of "what did I build" is exactly the right swap! It's the same trap in enterprise IT and in most launches here, just dressed differently (feature list vs

... while you're working on the desktop version and the usual options either hide one layout when you switch, or feel clunky. The part that really pushed me to build this was demoing work: when a client or an employer asks "how does it look on a phone?", screen-sharing a narrow browser window never looks great. So Mobile View overlays a real device frame right on top of the live page. You see the desktop and the mobile ... ... tablet) layout at the same time, in the same tab, with scrolling, clicks and typing synced between them. Where it's been most useful for me: - Presenting responsive work to clients and employers

... date. Spreadsheets kind of work, but they're tedious and easy to get wrong. Tax Assistant PH is a free web app that handles the heavy lifting: Income & expense tracking log everything in one place 8% flat tax vs graduated rate instantly see which saves you more (TRAIN Law) BIR deadline calendar 1701Q, 2551Q, and 1701 at a glance Foreign currency support auto-converts USD, EUR, GBP to PHP VAT threshold alert warns you when you're approaching ... ... Best suited for: Freelancers, VAs, online sellers, content creators, and any self-employed

... seeing teenagers, sometimes as young as 15  16, building real businesses. In some cases, it almost feels illegal compared to traditional expectations. :D A lot of students are choosing summer projects over internships, partly because trust in traditional employment feels less stable than before. Frequent layoffs and rapid shifts in industries seem to have changed how people think about career security. TBH, I wouldn't trust a "regular job" either. So their experience with business is often minimal ... ... have sparked my imagination to change the way we do business. What was once gatekept is no longer; the playing field is level between all players. Comment from Neal Miskell(@wereframe): I'm 42 now, started at 41. Still employed

... have actually diverged in outcome in the ledger so far and if it's inferred, what's your cold-start before a single divergence has been observed? Comment from Alexander Bering(@alexanderbering): @aadilghani  The reason "edit vs. tell-it-to-revise vs

... honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me. So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.] And being a founder gave me a greater sense of "ownership", but also responsibility. And, when things are not going well, and business is going poorly, you don't really want to be a founder in bad times. :D Freelancing probably worked out best for me delivering a service, while also protecting ... ... most, and what advantages/disadvantages have you noticed for your preferred choice? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @mrdavidtiong  I rather think it is a lifestyle. Like yes, some roles are more suitable at the different stages but even employment

... everyone overnight - they ll just move much faster with fewer bottlenecks. Comment from Alper Tayfur(@alpertayfurr): I think white-collar work gets affected faster because most of it already lives inside software. But the real split is not blue vs white collar it s repeatable tasks vs

... After like 5 hours of looking for work and applying for stuff I was blown away at how awful it is. You're applying for jobs on LinkedIn and there's hundreds of people applying to the same job. Employers are using AI to filter out applicants so they don't even get human eyes on their resume! Then workers use AI to write their resumes just to get past AI on the employers

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... data lives than what the AI could actually do. Data sovereignty, not model capability, was the #1 thing. That one insight basically forced us to rethink our entire architecture. Anyone else been surprised by what enterprise buyers actually prioritize vs

... here. Frontier models sometimes scored lower because they were too smart, adding guideline level recommendations instead of extracting what the note actually said. The finetuned model better matched the expected extraction style, correctly distinguishing "yes" for chronic conditions vs "no" for routine procedures in follow-up flags. Legal Clause Rewriting (Qwen3-32B) : Tied with one of the top frontier models, within 0.25 of the best. The finetuned model learned to explicitly restate each legal qualifier in simple terms rather than ... ... glossing over them. It preserved temporal details like "2 year post employment

... without pushing themselves. There s also this common idea that you should switch jobs every ~7 years (long enough to master something, but also long for getting crazy) :D How long should you stay with one employer, or how often should you change jobs? [At this point, I no longer believe in loyalty to an employer