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Re:Toby – Your Website Agent on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:50AM (#49842722)
talk to your website. upload photos and mange your newsletter with TOBY on your mobile phone.
I built Skillgrade (https://www.skillgrade.ai/) to try and solve a problem I keep seeing on professional networks: everyone is suddenly an "AI Expert," but there’s no real baseline for what that actually means.

Being an AI power user looks completely different for a lawyer using Harvey AI for document analysis versus a marketer using Midjourney, or an engineer using OpenClaw.

I wanted to create a standardized, quick way to assess and showcase these practical skills.

How it works: Contextual: It first asks for your industry and role (e.g., Legal, Executive, Engineering).

Tool & Usage Based: It assesses which specific tools you use (ChatGPT, Claude, specialized industry tools) and how you apply them (e.g., basic email drafting vs. core workflow integration).

The Output: It calculates a grade based on your inputs and generates a specific tier (like "Level 3: Orchestrator") and a certificate optimized for sharing on LinkedIn.

The Tech / Challenges: Right now, the assessment relies heavily on self-reporting. One of the biggest challenges I’m thinking through is how to make the validation more rigorous without turning a 3-minute quick test into a 30-minute exam.

I’d love the community's feedback on a few things: The Grading Logic: Does the tiering system feel accurate for your specific profession?

Missing Tools/Use Cases: Are there major AI tools or specific workflows in your industry that the questionnaire completely misses?

Future Validation: Any ideas on how to seamlessly integrate actual proof of work or skill testing without killing the conversion rate?

Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear your thoughts!

I might have to go that route.
Enrolling, much rather than submitting an app in the developer program is the issue at hand. I’m in the EU.

Ask HN: Apple Developer Account Blocked without reason – can somebody help?

Does anybody else have the same problem? I have been working on an App for months now but now I wanted to submit it to the App store, but I cannot create Apple Developer Account (Enrollment) because my Account is somehow blocked. My Issue at Apple (Case Number: 101043480563) has been open since March 11th, but no progress has been made. I was inquiring almost weekly, but the very friendly...

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Re:Ask HN: Coworking Space London (31/7, 1/8) on Monday July 28, 2014 @07:40AM (#8096141)
You can find a list of coworking spaces in London with reviews on Good Coworking. https://goodcoworking.com/cities/london It also shows you who works from these coworking spaces so you can find spaces with a community that is of interest to you.
I corrected the blog post with a correct sample size. Thanks for the feedback!
thanks, I'll fix that right away!
Re:Get your HTML5socks today on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @12:15PM (#2489978)
finally!
Re:Munich Hacker News Meetup - 'the sequel' on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:53AM (#2258417)
Damn, we should really meet! I'd love to hear what you're up to.
Re:Munich Hacker News Meetup - 'the sequel' on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:37AM (#2258338)
Awesome!
Re:Munich Hacker News Meetup - 'the sequel' on Thursday February 24, 2011 @09:46AM (#2258100)
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Munich Hacker News Meetup - 'the sequel'

It's time to finally host the second Munich Hacker News meetup. The last meetup went really well and it was nice to meet everyone.Once again, we plan on drinking a beer or two, talking about what we are working on and sharing interesting ideas about the future that could be...If you would like to attend drop a comment below.Venue: Cafe Ringlnatz (http://goo.gl/maps/xr3l) Haimhauserstr. 8...

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Re:AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:59PM (#2026106)
And already account deletion is broken
Re:Realtime encoding - over 150x faster on Monday December 20, 2010 @02:27PM (#2025427)
The biggest challenge to me seems to be spinning up instances once you get a spike of realtime jobs in parallel. Keeping the 'realtime' promise is often hard once your systems go into production.
Re:Super.js - lightweight JavaScript RIA framework on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:34AM (#1979524)
That's super impressive ;)

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