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Re:Show HN: I Built a Tool to Find Devs Based on Code, Not L... by DeathArrow on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:36AM (#43622305)
>Just to clarify, GitMatcher is primarily designed for the sourcing stage of recruitment — helping recruiters and hiring managers discover devs based on actual contributions rather than résumés or LinkedIn profiles.

Why would Github commits more significant when discovering people than LinkedIn CVS?

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Re:Show HN: I Built a Tool to Find Devs Based on Code, Not L... by inanutshellus on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:47AM (#43622419)
One contributes to GH is more-often tech or projects you're interest in, whilst a resume is going to be the alphabet soup of all tech you know.

HN is doing a good job of complaining about all the edge cases where this won't work because most of us don't contribute high-quality, novel work to GH. For example, for me, my recent GH contributions are for an ancient video game in a niche language I've never used elsewhere and my location isn't even exposed. So I won't show up. Boo hoo.

It's still a neat idea.

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