SpringRole - A LinkedIn alternative on the blockchain

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•7yr ago

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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I like the concept of the product, and always nice to see fellow Indians do well on PH. I had a few questions I hope you could answer. 1) How do you scale up the platform to say 100k profiles, in the video you mentioned verifying people's jobs/ work experience. If you plan to democratize such verification processes, how do you prevent a cartel or a bunch of illicit users from popping up 3) The login wasn't working for me, can you post the etherscan address for the smart contracts. Though I am not sure if *building on Ethereum* means using the public chain or your own private/ permission-ed implementation of it 4) I understand the idea of *owning* your own data, but if its on the blockchain and publicly viewable, what is stopping someone else from pulling the information and commercializing it? (Though IDK what incentives could there be for this) Anyway wish you best of luck for this!

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7yr ago

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@varun_agarwal1 Sure, Varun. Find answers below: 1. Great Q. So, we have three levels of verification. L1 is P2P. This requires 3 of your peers from your current (or ex-company) to attest that you indeed worked at the said company. This is done via a domain verification of their email IDs. L2 is when we conduct a thorough BackGround Verification that includes Edu exp., Work exp., PAN, Aadhaar, Address and Court records check. This is enabled by our product - https://springverify.com/ L3 is a company itself attesting all their present and past employees. We are taking L2 as our GTM strategy, feeding into L3. 2. There's no 2nd Q. 3. Oops! Can you help us with what went wrong please? Write to support at springrole dot com and we'll take care of the issue. Here's the contract address: 0xfB0bdC444C8AE7E9b5bEEa5e4D1E8De93879e487 4. Only Public data (that the user chooses to make public) is available. When we say you own your data, that means access to your private messages. We use Blockstack's Gaia which means even we don't have access to anyone's messages. Also, the major change is that the line items (unlike on LinkedIn) are all verified. So, someone buying the information (by its nature) from someone commercializing it will be equivalent to someone paying for public data available on LinkedIn. Not very smart, IMO.

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7yr ago

The future of professional networks. Harnessing the transparency and permission-based nature of blockchain to solve a real world problem, SpringRole is one of the more promising DApps out there!

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7yr ago

Would love to see #BCH used if possible

Pros:

Its a decentralized likedIn alternative, born and bred from India

Cons:

More people should know about this tool!

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7yr ago

I would like to recommend this to each and every individual as it backs by blockchain technology with real uses case. This will definitely helps both sides of platform to avoid spams and right selection of candidates and represent their actual profile rather than just putting fake information. Best Regards NikhilDPrince

Pros:

It's technology and features. Usecase. Timely updates. Strong team. User verification process. And more

Cons:

As of now as users growing so one cannot directly say something is wrong. Team is doing really good.

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7yr ago

How are you dealing with the GDPR regulations?

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7yr ago

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@jeroendeprest data is owned by the users. The chain only has the hashes of the data so it should be fine with GDPR

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7yr ago

I generally believe in owning your own data. And this would be a good alternative to LinkedIn, I just wished there were more integrations. All in good time I guess.

Pros:

Simple UI with great UX

Cons:

Sign-ins hang sometime and you have to start over

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7yr ago