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What exactly is the use case here? I think this is trying to hard to be a new network of sorts without adding significant or desirable value. Below are some examples of online profiles that add value (outside of FB, Twitter, LinkedIn)

About.me provided a nice professional landing page for me. Coderwall falls under a good niche to get actually valuable information Threewords.me was super simple providing a throwaway fun.

GiveBrand.to requires an education system and is too professional to be like threewords. In other words, I still don't get why I should sign up for givebrand.

I think the idea is that someone could say they're great at writing grant proposals, but it carries a lot more weight when it's confirmed by others. Seems like it would be a nice simple way to confirm your talents to prospective employers and other professional connections.

Exactly!

What stops someone creating a lot of fake accounts to vouch for them?

Also, how would people show this to prospective employers? Would they post the URL on their resume?

Great feedback Martin. The site is a great way to show off your personal brand and build credibility for your skills. Takes away the self reporting bias.

Can the user kill a tag? Do they have the ability to screen tags? For example, I can review a recommendation on LinkedIn before it's posted to my profile.

Hit edit profile and delete the tag. We don't have moderated tagging yet. It's in the next release.

I feel weird using this as an individual, but I think it would be awesome to use for a business. I'm sure that's on the roadmap though ;-)

Top of mind brand awareness is coming soon. Youre awesome!

Part of what makes it awkward is that it appeals to me in the sense that it takes the b.s. factor out of telling people what your good at, while at the same time requires requiring you to ask others what they think you're good at.

I think part of what would make it less awkward is being able to prepopulate the page. If I send a blank page to friends and are like "gloat about me" they'll think I'm an egotistical asshole and I don't really want to be an egotistical asshole.

Of course, I sort of felt this way about personal landing pages and LinkedIn at first too.

I think a more passive way of sharing it would help too. Maybe integrations with about.me, flavors.me, LinkedIn, and the major blogging platforms. Actually, this is probably the top feature request if I had to pick one. Just let this thing float in a widget on LinkedIn.

You should connect with LinkedIn and Facebook to pull interests from those sites to prepopulate the page.

Completely agree. I wanted to work out any issues before introducing any viral invite functionality.

Look forward to getting feedback from the HN community. Let us know how we can improve the app.

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