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Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

78 points by tjosten 14y ago

jiggy2011 14y ago
It would be nice to see a link to a sample site on the frontpage.
- tjosten 14y ago
  Fixed that, thanks!
  - doktrin 14y ago
    Very nice. How does the blog integration work? Is it limited to certain platforms?
    - tjosten 14y ago
      For now, there is a markdown blog editor included after login where you can save drafts and publish them later on.
akos 14y ago
Looks good! What icon set are you using?
- tjosten 14y ago
  http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ - it's actually a font face.
muellerwolfram 14y ago
I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io
- tjosten 14y ago
  Yep, you're right. I was curious about your project but as it hasn't launched yet and I wanted to make something on this weekend, that's what happened. I don't see a problem here to be honest. ;)
  - sashagim 14y ago
    "that's what happened" It didn't just happen - seems like you have intentionally copied someone else's idea, down to naming and design. You're obviously entitled to do so, but it's not something I would run bragging about on hn, especially without giving any credit the original work. And saying "I don't see a problem here" after the original creator has pointed (quite gently) to the fact, is not very empathetic of you.
    - tjosten 14y ago
      Well, I never indented to offend him or anyone else. I'm waiting for his app to launch and when it's great I'm gonna use it, that's it. But for the meantime, I build my own thing and as I mostly do, I set it free to others.
      - onli 14y ago
        May very well be, but you sure could've choosen at least a different name. And a design of your own wouldn't have hurt.
        MatthewPhillips 14y ago
        It's a different misspelling of Portfolio, a dictionary word descriptive of what it is. I see no issues here.
        zakx 14y ago
        I think using Bootstrap pretty much fits to the "i built this in a weekend" idea. He could always come up with a better design later.
Off 14y ago
Can't sign up/in: "Failed while signing up. This username may already be taken."
- tjosten 14y ago
  If you want me to look into this, write me an email with your GitHub username, please.
bbx 14y ago
I'm not a developer but a designer. What do developers showcase in their portfolio? How do you describe the projects you've worked on? What is a recruiter looking for when visiting your website?
- tomschlick 14y ago
  A developers profile these days is mostly just github. Works very well for those of us that contribute back to open source but not too sure how someone who doesn't contribute to os stuff would show a portfolio...
  - jaredsohn 14y ago
    >not too sure how someone who doesn't contribute to os stuff would show a portfolio A portfolio can also consist of project writeups/screenshots and/or links to live sites.
- cvursache 14y ago
  Sorry to point this out, but you sound more like a recruiter than a designer. I'm sure people would answer your questions if you would ask them a little bit less bluntly. My answers to your questions are: 1. I showcase the projects I've been working on 2. I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves (README, code comments, etc.) 3. Someone very skilled to make them good money with little hassle
  - bdunn 14y ago
    I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves... Can't disagree more. If I'm hiring a freelance developer, I want to be assured of their "here's my problem, help me come up with a solution" abilities. Simply linking to an app they build for a client or a Github project doesn't necessarily tell me everything I want to know. Why does this exist, and what problem was it trying to solve? And did it end up solving said problem, if so — how?
    - 14y ago
bdotdub 14y ago
A bunch of UX feedback/issues: - after signing in/up, there is no link on any page that actually links you to your portfolio. - The welcome page is a waste of space right now. It only has a link to give you feedback, while providing the user no useful information. - If you're making me sign in with github, the projects section shouldn't be empty. It should pull from my github - Under Theme, I understand it's probably more work than it's worth right now to preview the themes for a weekend project - but the link out to bootswatch should at least go to the preview so I know what I'm choosing: http://bootswatch.com/#gallery http://bootswatch.com/#gallery
- tjosten 14y ago
  Thanks for your feedback! - That has been added - Yep, indeed. I'll think about what's best in this place. - That's what I initially planned and that's going to come for sure :-D - Great idea, thanks!
jdkram 14y ago
Great work, thanks for sharing this. Feedback - - I'm a fool and was looking around for somewhere to click to go through to my site - what about a small link somewhere around http://d.jdkram.net/W7nY http://d.jdkram.net/W7nY? Or maybe a second button the "Welcome" tab. - Hovering over all of the entry titles in 'Account' (Facebook, Google+ etc.) switches the cursor to a hand. Apologies if this is intentional. - It would be nice to have a little explanation regarding what you're asking for in the box: something like http://d.jdkram.net/4GEL http://d.jdkram.net/4GEL would help keep the look clean and let you explain where to get the info you're asking for. Alternatively continue with your current norm and use greyed out text within the boxes saying "e.g. 107633175658115732197".
- tjosten 14y ago
  Thanks for your feedback! - This has just been added. - The text was ment to be a label for the input box. I'll fix that. - Yeah, there's a lot of explaination and help texts missing. I'll add this when I got more time this week.
  - jdkram 14y ago
    Thanks for taking it on board :). Two more: - The slider for draft/live seems counter-intuitive to me, clicking on draft makes it live and vice versa. - I was about to suggest the ability to add font awesome icons but I see it's already there! How about advertising this feature on the editor page somewhere? Or adding a menu for placing icons tags like <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> in quickly? Saying that, the design works so well because it is so simple and fast.
photorized 14y ago
Free, no ads... what's the business model here, if you don't mind sharing?
- tjosten 14y ago
  There's no business model, as I never wanted to make money with this. It's a fun project and it's hosted on existing infrastructure.
braveheart1723 14y ago
nicely responsive !
- trumbitta2 14y ago
  Nicely Bootstrap
night_fury 14y ago
reduce header font size for mobile, the site scrolls sideways
dsowers 14y ago
A few weeks back I launched something similar: http://www.mycelial.com http://www.mycelial.com
- tjosten 14y ago
  That looks beautiful!
  - dsowers 14y ago
    Thanks. I put a lot of work into polishing it.
fady 14y ago
i feel its better to build you own, if its your personal website, and you're a developer. this seems like the easy, lazy way out and shows that you don't have time to make a custom site for yourself to show off your talents. i can see this idea being used for other professions, but if you're a dev, then i feel your website is a free pass to show off your true skills, creativity.. either way, great job.. keep developing
durbin 14y ago
Partner with a designer.
zapt02 14y ago
One small flaw: the columns have huge gutters at high resolutions. Example: http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png The image example is for effect, but it does look goofy at 1980px viewport width too.
waynepierson 14y ago
I like it, a lot. I never had much or was proud of my personal website, so for fun I pointed my A records over to my brand new shiny website at prtfl.io. It's waynepierson.com ( http://wpierson.prtflio.eu/ http://wpierson.prtflio.eu/ if the changes haven't propagated yet to your neck of the woods, but CloudFlare is pretty good about that) I also got a little carried away, wrote out my about page, and even wrote three blog posts. Yes three. I'm a fan.
harshadura 14y ago
awesome project, wanna use this, thanks for ur hard work!
picsoung 14y ago
Like it ! :) I decided to give it a try. It's now up and running on http://nicolasgrenie.com http://nicolasgrenie.com I could be awesome to get automatically the projects from Github. And also being able to re-arrange the order of projects. I personally want to arrange them chronologically and also edit them. Hope you will continue to dev it. The good thing to know : there is a need for this kind of solution :)

78 points by tjosten 14y ago

jiggy2011 14y ago

It would be nice to see a link to a sample site on the frontpage.

tjosten 14y ago
Fixed that, thanks!
- doktrin 14y ago
  Very nice. How does the blog integration work? Is it limited to certain platforms?
  - tjosten 14y ago
    For now, there is a markdown blog editor included after login where you can save drafts and publish them later on.

akos 14y ago

Looks good! What icon set are you using?

tjosten 14y ago
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ - it's actually a font face.

muellerwolfram 14y ago

I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io

tjosten 14y ago
Yep, you're right. I was curious about your project but as it hasn't launched yet and I wanted to make something on this weekend, that's what happened. I don't see a problem here to be honest. ;)
- sashagim 14y ago
  "that's what happened" It didn't just happen - seems like you have intentionally copied someone else's idea, down to naming and design. You're obviously entitled to do so, but it's not something I would run bragging about on hn, especially without giving any credit the original work. And saying "I don't see a problem here" after the original creator has pointed (quite gently) to the fact, is not very empathetic of you.
  - tjosten 14y ago
    Well, I never indented to offend him or anyone else. I'm waiting for his app to launch and when it's great I'm gonna use it, that's it. But for the meantime, I build my own thing and as I mostly do, I set it free to others.
    - onli 14y ago
      May very well be, but you sure could've choosen at least a different name. And a design of your own wouldn't have hurt.
      - MatthewPhillips 14y ago
        It's a different misspelling of Portfolio, a dictionary word descriptive of what it is. I see no issues here.
      - zakx 14y ago
        I think using Bootstrap pretty much fits to the "i built this in a weekend" idea. He could always come up with a better design later.

Off 14y ago

Can't sign up/in: "Failed while signing up. This username may already be taken."

tjosten 14y ago
If you want me to look into this, write me an email with your GitHub username, please.

bbx 14y ago

I'm not a developer but a designer. What do developers showcase in their portfolio? How do you describe the projects you've worked on? What is a recruiter looking for when visiting your website?

tomschlick 14y ago
A developers profile these days is mostly just github. Works very well for those of us that contribute back to open source but not too sure how someone who doesn't contribute to os stuff would show a portfolio...
- jaredsohn 14y ago
  >not too sure how someone who doesn't contribute to os stuff would show a portfolio A portfolio can also consist of project writeups/screenshots and/or links to live sites.
cvursache 14y ago
Sorry to point this out, but you sound more like a recruiter than a designer. I'm sure people would answer your questions if you would ask them a little bit less bluntly. My answers to your questions are: 1. I showcase the projects I've been working on 2. I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves (README, code comments, etc.) 3. Someone very skilled to make them good money with little hassle
- bdunn 14y ago
  I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves... Can't disagree more. If I'm hiring a freelance developer, I want to be assured of their "here's my problem, help me come up with a solution" abilities. Simply linking to an app they build for a client or a Github project doesn't necessarily tell me everything I want to know. Why does this exist, and what problem was it trying to solve? And did it end up solving said problem, if so — how?
  - 14y ago

bdotdub 14y ago

A bunch of UX feedback/issues: - after signing in/up, there is no link on any page that actually links you to your portfolio. - The welcome page is a waste of space right now. It only has a link to give you feedback, while providing the user no useful information. - If you're making me sign in with github, the projects section shouldn't be empty. It should pull from my github - Under Theme, I understand it's probably more work than it's worth right now to preview the themes for a weekend project - but the link out to bootswatch should at least go to the preview so I know what I'm choosing: http://bootswatch.com/#gallery http://bootswatch.com/#gallery

tjosten 14y ago
Thanks for your feedback! - That has been added - Yep, indeed. I'll think about what's best in this place. - That's what I initially planned and that's going to come for sure :-D - Great idea, thanks!

jdkram 14y ago

Great work, thanks for sharing this. Feedback - - I'm a fool and was looking around for somewhere to click to go through to my site - what about a small link somewhere around http://d.jdkram.net/W7nY http://d.jdkram.net/W7nY? Or maybe a second button the "Welcome" tab. - Hovering over all of the entry titles in 'Account' (Facebook, Google+ etc.) switches the cursor to a hand. Apologies if this is intentional. - It would be nice to have a little explanation regarding what you're asking for in the box: something like http://d.jdkram.net/4GEL http://d.jdkram.net/4GEL would help keep the look clean and let you explain where to get the info you're asking for. Alternatively continue with your current norm and use greyed out text within the boxes saying "e.g. 107633175658115732197".

tjosten 14y ago
Thanks for your feedback! - This has just been added. - The text was ment to be a label for the input box. I'll fix that. - Yeah, there's a lot of explaination and help texts missing. I'll add this when I got more time this week.
- jdkram 14y ago
  Thanks for taking it on board :). Two more: - The slider for draft/live seems counter-intuitive to me, clicking on draft makes it live and vice versa. - I was about to suggest the ability to add font awesome icons but I see it's already there! How about advertising this feature on the editor page somewhere? Or adding a menu for placing icons tags like <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> in quickly? Saying that, the design works so well because it is so simple and fast.

photorized 14y ago

Free, no ads... what's the business model here, if you don't mind sharing?

tjosten 14y ago
There's no business model, as I never wanted to make money with this. It's a fun project and it's hosted on existing infrastructure.

braveheart1723 14y ago

nicely responsive !

trumbitta2 14y ago
Nicely Bootstrap

night_fury 14y ago

reduce header font size for mobile, the site scrolls sideways

dsowers 14y ago

A few weeks back I launched something similar: http://www.mycelial.com http://www.mycelial.com

tjosten 14y ago
That looks beautiful!
- dsowers 14y ago
  Thanks. I put a lot of work into polishing it.

fady 14y ago

i feel its better to build you own, if its your personal website, and you're a developer. this seems like the easy, lazy way out and shows that you don't have time to make a custom site for yourself to show off your talents. i can see this idea being used for other professions, but if you're a dev, then i feel your website is a free pass to show off your true skills, creativity.. either way, great job.. keep developing

durbin 14y ago

Partner with a designer.

zapt02 14y ago

One small flaw: the columns have huge gutters at high resolutions. Example: http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png The image example is for effect, but it does look goofy at 1980px viewport width too.

waynepierson 14y ago

I like it, a lot. I never had much or was proud of my personal website, so for fun I pointed my A records over to my brand new shiny website at prtfl.io. It's waynepierson.com ( http://wpierson.prtflio.eu/ http://wpierson.prtflio.eu/ if the changes haven't propagated yet to your neck of the woods, but CloudFlare is pretty good about that) I also got a little carried away, wrote out my about page, and even wrote three blog posts. Yes three. I'm a fan.

harshadura 14y ago

awesome project, wanna use this, thanks for ur hard work!

picsoung 14y ago

Like it ! :) I decided to give it a try. It's now up and running on http://nicolasgrenie.com http://nicolasgrenie.com I could be awesome to get automatically the projects from Github. And also being able to re-arrange the order of projects. I personally want to arrange them chronologically and also edit them. Hope you will continue to dev it. The good thing to know : there is a need for this kind of solution :)