Showwcase 2.0 - Unbundling LinkedIn for developers, everywhere

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•4yr ago

Showwcase is a professional network built for people who code. We help developers represent who they are holistically, find a community of like-minded individuals, and gain access to unique developer work opportunities.

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congrats on product launch

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4yr ago

Ah think something like this is sorely needed -- its so hard to declutter the BS from LinkedIn and also this can help tech companies hire on the basis of skills / needs rather than just for the titles / years of exp

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4yr ago

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@vivekkatial Thank you, Vivek.

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4yr ago

@vivekkatial Thanks Vivek! Hope it brings you value. We have a bunch of new features and plans coming soon

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4yr ago

teQatlas

love it!

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4yr ago

A remote working solution.

Looks great but I am wondering if people are going to be that excited about another social network. It seems like most devs aren't even too eager to visit or post on LinkedIn and other conventional platforms. What are the perks you offer engineers that they can't get elswhere? Otherwise yours seems like a product with a future.

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4yr ago

@maya_ovice Hey Maya! Thanks for the question. I completely agree with you - another social network with people screaming over each other for attention is definitely not ideal. In fact, I am personally not very active on any social media platforms. However, what I am a fan of are Community Platforms - a like-minded group of people with shared goals that come together to share ideas, knowledge, and resources. And that is how we''ve designed and built Showwcase. We have Communities for individual topics like Machine Learning or Javascript. Also, to deprioritise the idea of getting "Followers", anyone can actually turn of who they follow and are following from their settings. In response to "perks", ultimately it's all about the community for me. We want to make it such that being part of this community brings you access to new opportunities via showcasing who you are and meeting new devs. Finally, instead of another LinkedIn, we want this to be a niche platform just for people who code. It's built for people like us :)

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4yr ago

This is great. Congrats on the launch. LI is like Penn Station at rush hour-- chaos, all noise, no signal. Developers need a place where they can share their talents, experience, and what they are looking for, as well as vouching for other developers and even helping their fellow developers find gigs. Here's a suggestion-- launch a coin-powered community for showwcase where everyone who participates earns coins that can be redeemed for access, perks, collaboration opportunities, and more. Doesn't have to be onchain to start, but that would be the next step-- launch a DAO and make it easy for the offchain coins to be withdrawn to private wallets. From there you can do a lot of cool stuff like NFT drops with avatars that evolve with activity and experience. If you are open to sharing the upside of your project with early adopters, believers, collaborators, users, and of course investors, then I bet you'll grow faster and be more useful than just a web2 unbundle of LI. Congrats again-- building anything is hard. I wish you the best of luck my friends!

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4yr ago

@tim_parsa2 Hey Tim! Thanks for the input, highly valued. 100% agree with your take on LI and it's frustrated us as devs for awhile. Love your second sentence which is why, for us, it's all about the community and aligned incentives.

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4yr ago

@tim_parsa2 On the Web3 initiatives we have them in our roadmap: Onchain credentialing, sign-in with wallet, tips and sponsorships with crypto, and NFTs. We are working on all these as we speak. Eventually the DO or DAO is in the cards, but we want to lead it in the right direction before having that. Finally, on the point of a social token we are still designing the tokenomics that is mutually beneficial for the entire community too. However, some questions come to mind such as "Do we really need another token?" "Why not just use ETH as the base currency?" "How to we incentivise long term holders vs pump and dump schemes". This is where NFTs may be more useful for us but we are still working on all of it. Would be great to have more discussions! Thanks!

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4yr ago