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Showwcase 2.0 — Unbundling LinkedIn for developers, everywhere
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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It feels so like Twitter, built all for developers. Looks super awesome. Recommending it to my developer network. Congratulations on the launch 🚀
Hey Product Hunters 👋
I'm super excited to hunt this great product.
Showwcase is a professional network built for people who code.
Let us know what you think.
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.
@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 :)
Hello PH!
I'm Rong, a developer working on Showwcase - a professional network built for developers. Developers can showcase who they are, connect with a community of like-minded devs, and find new work opportunities.
As the world is increasingly filled with more and more developers, we thought we'd build one around developer workflows, tools, and features. Our initial frustration was how LinkedIn is still the de-facto place people search us up despite it not being representative of who we are, our connections have become relatively meaningless, and the user experience is not great for how we like to hang out and share ideas, knowledge, and grow. Further, because they focus on all professional categories, they don’t cater to the work opportunities that we as developers engage in - Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance, Team hires, Open Source, building startups together, content creation and much more.
In essence, our goal is to build a vertical network optimised around developers.
Some of the features we're proud of:
- Have conversations with the community using Threads (kind of like Tweets but not 280 chars and you can share code directly)
- Share your work with Shows (our way of sharing anything you’ve built, written, made, or collaborated on).
- Circle connections are people you’ve worked, collaborated, or those you can vouch for
- Customisable profiles: Your Tech Stack, Github repositories, and work history
- Custom domains for everyone!
- Resume 2.0 - a new resume for developers - check it out!
- Job preferences settings and matching
- Communities to hang out with other developers - Javascript, Web3, NFTs, Machine Learning, etc
We're still in the early stages and have a long way to go, we welcome all kinds of feedback and hope the platform brings any tech/coders/devs value. If you have any, please drop them in the comments below!
Thanks!
Rong, Faizan, and Roman
Congratulations Rong and team Showwcase!
I've been using the website for a long time as an early adopter and I can vouch for its effectiveness as a professional network for developers!
It's different from most of the other solutions out there because it brings the good parts from all of them in a single place :)
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!
@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.
@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!
SaaSBold