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The premise is interesting, but there are some things that I dislike on the surface. 1. I don't want AI matching, I don't want AI anything. 2. Rep/skills base

The premise is interesting, but there are some things that I dislike on the surface. 1. I don't want AI matching, I don't want AI anything. 2. Rep/skills based on Github contents? Firstly isn't that a form of the gatekeeping you called out as a problem? Secondly, most of the code I have ever written lives in proprietary repositories. Because I was paid to write it. 3. How does this not become another mess where there are two camps. The people shouting advertisements into the void and the people shouting "I need a job" into the same void?

Hindol007 1y ago
Really appreciate this feedback: AI — totally optional, it’s just a GitHub-based recommendation system, not a black-box. You’re also totally right about private repos. We’re thinking of adding self-declared skill tags so devs who build behind the scenes aren’t excluded. And your last point? Super valid. We’re working on light friction + curation to prevent the “job-seeker spam” effect. Would love your take on what would make it actually useful for someone like you.
- MongooseStudios 1y ago
  Tricky question since nothing has really got it right so far. My initial question would be whether this is a new type of social media site, or if it's a social media adjacent thing trying to be a directory mixed with a job board. IE: something like Wellfound or any of the Y Combinator stuff outside of the news board. The things I would find most compelling: 1. A centralized place where I don't have to join a specific server to scope out the community (like you do with Discord servers) 2. Dev people instead of business people. I refuse to go back to LinkedIn 3. As a proactive user, I would value the ability to see a feed (that I can curate) of people posting stuff they are working on, and then be able to click on their profile and see more of what they are up to if I am interested 4. I really really really want strong filtering. I don't want to see people's political takes or world news stuff in a space like this. I also want to be able to filter out all of the AI company/startup stuff. The main problem I have with things like Bluesky feeds (which are overall pretty good) is that the software dev feeds are FULL of the AI glazing slop that has taken over a lot of those spaces. There's a fair amount of overlap with the stuff already mentioned on your home page, that's intentional. Those are the things that motivated me to comment.
Hindol007 1y ago
This is a little demo altho we are still left to execute one more but you can get the idea of it do check! https://campfire-ihog.onrender.com/ https://campfire-ihog.onrender.com/

Hindol007 1y ago

Really appreciate this feedback: AI — totally optional, it’s just a GitHub-based recommendation system, not a black-box. You’re also totally right about private repos. We’re thinking of adding self-declared skill tags so devs who build behind the scenes aren’t excluded. And your last point? Super valid. We’re working on light friction + curation to prevent the “job-seeker spam” effect. Would love your take on what would make it actually useful for someone like you.

MongooseStudios 1y ago
Tricky question since nothing has really got it right so far. My initial question would be whether this is a new type of social media site, or if it's a social media adjacent thing trying to be a directory mixed with a job board. IE: something like Wellfound or any of the Y Combinator stuff outside of the news board. The things I would find most compelling: 1. A centralized place where I don't have to join a specific server to scope out the community (like you do with Discord servers) 2. Dev people instead of business people. I refuse to go back to LinkedIn 3. As a proactive user, I would value the ability to see a feed (that I can curate) of people posting stuff they are working on, and then be able to click on their profile and see more of what they are up to if I am interested 4. I really really really want strong filtering. I don't want to see people's political takes or world news stuff in a space like this. I also want to be able to filter out all of the AI company/startup stuff. The main problem I have with things like Bluesky feeds (which are overall pretty good) is that the software dev feeds are FULL of the AI glazing slop that has taken over a lot of those spaces. There's a fair amount of overlap with the stuff already mentioned on your home page, that's intentional. Those are the things that motivated me to comment.

Hindol007 1y ago

This is a little demo altho we are still left to execute one more but you can get the idea of it do check! https://campfire-ihog.onrender.com/ https://campfire-ihog.onrender.com/