Re:Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one
by fliellerjulian on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:46AM
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Totally fair point — and one we’ve thought a lot about.
The goal with OpenSpot isn’t to force everyone to do more unpaid work or replace resumes entirely — it’s to give people who want to stand out an easy, high-signal way to do so, especially if they’re not getting traction through traditional means.
For recruiters, the platform is curated and searchable, so they’re not sifting through hundreds of TikTok-style intros — they’re seeing real signals of quality, with depth if they want it.
We're not trying to increase the noise — we're trying to cut through it.
Obviously, because if you make a whole platform like that, nobody stands out any more, but everyone if forced to do more (unpaid) work than they did before. For the recruiters/hiring managers it is impossible to process video and audio at scale either.