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'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.
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.