Show HN: An elegant profile for a more civilized age | Hacker News Reader

Show HN: An elegant profile for a more civilized age

emblem.io

12 pointsahugon14 comments

Assuming you appreciate some constructive criticism - the sample 'business card' you provided doesn't match your promise of being elegant...

The flow of the text around the round image makes it hard to read. There's a mishmash of font sizes. 'Show all' displays so little new text, you might as well not hide it under the link. The summary is cut off mid-sentence and there's no way of expanding it. The picture is cropped too closely and there's a pixelated border.

The font that 'CIVILIZED AGE' is written in hardly looks elegant, and doesn't match the cursive font.

Just my opinion...

I agree with all of this feedback but I think it's the cursive font (Tangerine) that needs to change.

It's a combination of that and the overuse of drop shadows, which give it the "I just discovered Photoshop" look.

Aw, but I LOVE drop-shadow and cursive! :)

I appreciate the feedback, guys; this project was just a 48-hour diversion which I figured had stand-alone merit, but I'll be sure to take your comments to heart vis-a-vis my other work.

Thanks!

"Sign in with Twitter". Looks like I can't use this service... nice..

Me neither. I'm not going to register on Twitter just for the sake of checking this service out, especially given how scarce the sample is.

Totally fair. If you want to see a more full-fleshed ("real") sample, you can check out the page I generated for myself: http://www.emblem.io/alex

The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.

Can't cut and paste it easily. Audrey's entry in my list of potential recruits would end up as her name and a short, bad tempered note. Compare it to linkedin's profile where I can grab key information easily (fairly easily - I imagine spreadsheet types get upset).

Thanks for the feedback; you're absolutely right, and it's partly intentional. The profile that's displayed on the front page isn't actually 100% indicative of what it looks like if you sign up -- more a joke than anything else. The goal of this was to present an alternative to about.me more than anything else (and thus certainly not to cater to recruiters).

I'm not sure I fully understand - clearly this is a LinkedIn competitor, but is it pulling data from their API or is it a standalone service?

I'm flattered! -- though I prefer to think of it as being in the about.me space. This was just a 48 hour side-thing that I wanted to put out there. And for the record, it doesn't make any use of LinkedIn's API whatsoever!

I would highly recommend that instead of making this a web app, you turn it into a theme of some sort. Most people will not want ANOTHER profile on ANOTHER domain. But, many people do still want to have their own domain.

Make it easy for me to direct my dns at you, and then it makes more sense for me as a user.

That's a great point, thanks! Should people actually start using it, I'll definitely consider investing some more time in it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com