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Ask HN: What projects exist to consolidate our professional identity online?

7 pointsgajus10 comments

What used to be just LinkedIn, has now grown to be Twitter, Instagram, Medium, Stack Overflow, and many other platforms. Is there a service / product that allows me (as a user) to consolidate one timeline from everything that I post across different social media platforms?

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It's difficult to curate content across multiple platforms. Likely due to duplicate detection. It may be a good idea for a startup, if you can group similar items so the feed isn't messy, it'll look clean. Think android notifications.

Sibling commenters are correct, I think a static site generators are the gold standard, since you'll be able to curate the feed to the way you usually post. Judging by your interest in aggregating, it seems Gatsby may be a fit:

Gatsby allows aggregating sources, e.g. https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-source-twitter/, https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-source-instagram/, https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-source-medium/

From scratch, I created a CV that aggregates all my GitHub stuff and hard codes the rest:

v1: https://cv.git-pull.com, https://github.com/tony/cv/tree/v1/react

v2: https://cv-react-v2.git-pull.com, https://github.com/tony/cv

I see a lot of people on Instagram using Linktree. For example, this arbitrary user...

https://www.instagram.com/successbykim/

...links to...

https://linktr.ee/successbykim

This just allows you to post links to your Twitter, etc. I am curious if there is a service that pulls this data for you into a single stream of your online presence.

A personal website/blog referenced in the profile/bio of all of those other services?

What you are describing is a DIY approach.

Is there anything off the shelf that I could use today?

Put all your online profile links in a tweet and pin that tweet? Or in your Instagram profile? Or in Medium (in your about section)...

What you are asking for is something like allyourprofiles.com/gajus where you can put all your online profile links... but why do you need the indirection? Just use one of your already existing social media profiles and use it as your "entry point": from there provide a link to all your other profiles. Easy.

There were many in the past but the social media platforms slowly closed their garden for them, not sure if they are still a thing. I remember hootsuite, tweetdeck and the likes.

Those platforms that you mention are for _you_ to monitor all your accounts from one place. Whereas, what I am researching is a platform where others could see all your activity in one place.

Out of curiosity, what is the objective of this?

Evaluating a new feature in our professional network

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