Let people browse without an account. If your site exists to call out the worst practices of sites like linkedin then you ought to avoid adopting the very same practices such as growth hacking.
Let people browse without an account.
If your site exists to call out the worst practices of sites like linkedin then you ought to avoid adopting the very same practices such as growth hacking.
Charlie, co-creator here. I totally agree, and we’re planning on adding this soon. I sorta messed up here by engineering it so that the home page requires a profile to load the correct data onto...
Charlie, co-creator here. I totally agree, and we’re planning on adding this soon. I sorta messed up here by engineering it so that the home page requires a profile to load the correct data onto the page, and it’s been trickier than I thought to refactor that out. The other thing I’d like to mention is that ALL the code for this project is open source, and can be found here: https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked. Thanks for the feedback!!
So, my friend and I are pretty grossed out by LinkedIn (and broader social media), and as we entered the workforce we started this side project. Essentially, you create whatever character you...
So, my friend and I are pretty grossed out by LinkedIn (and broader social media), and as we entered the workforce we started this side project. Essentially, you create whatever character you want, and post LinkedIn satire in the form of posts, fake news headlines, fake ads, etc... It just launched, and we've had more organic growth than expected, so we're trying to build it out to be something better for users, and more 'ethical' than most social media sites. I'd love to hear your thoughts on ways to keep a Social Media site more user-friendly (e.g., not collecting/selling user data) as we scale up, and potentially on what features you think would help build this!
I'm on board! I love it! One key factor I'm missing with ShlinkedIn is the absence of cold-call recruiters that have this AmAzInG jOb OfFeR that's on the other side of the country, with a skillset...
I'm on board! I love it!
One key factor I'm missing with ShlinkedIn is the absence of cold-call recruiters that have this AmAzInG jOb OfFeR that's on the other side of the country, with a skillset that's almost a match for what you actually do.
But aside from that, this is fantastic, and I love being whoever I want to be.
Yes!!! Glad to have you. We have been toying with the idea of a few bots that sporadically message random things (maybe like, NPCs in a video game giving quests), and with more job-posting /...
Yes!!! Glad to have you. We have been toying with the idea of a few bots that sporadically message random things (maybe like, NPCs in a video game giving quests), and with more job-posting / recruitment things. If you have any thoughts on what you'd like from those, we crave feedback all the time!
Honestly, the ads are a great template. I'd love to create and send job offers to qualified individuals. The opt-in toggle implemented on ads is a great touch you could carry over too... Cold-call...
Honestly, the ads are a great template. I'd love to create and spam send job offers to qualified individuals.
The opt-in toggle implemented on ads is a great touch you could carry over too... Cold-call job offers could be way too real for some users, depending on headhunting season, haha.
Ahaha yeah, straddling that line of funny satire and making it annoying is tricky business. The opt-in bit could be the solution (Are you open to receiving "recruitment" messages?)
Ahaha yeah, straddling that line of funny satire and making it annoying is tricky business. The opt-in bit could be the solution (Are you open to receiving "recruitment" messages?)
Not sure if I'm just missing something but I made the mistake of not using a 10 minute mail and I cant find a way to stop the emails for every single interaction.
Not sure if I'm just missing something but I made the mistake of not using a 10 minute mail and I cant find a way to stop the emails for every single interaction.
Yikes sorry—we have a setting called 'Seckler mode' that disables all emails, and you can activate it by hitting 'Edit Profile' on your profile (it's down by all the profile forms). We're trying...
Yikes sorry—we have a setting called 'Seckler mode' that disables all emails, and you can activate it by hitting 'Edit Profile' on your profile (it's down by all the profile forms). We're trying to do a better job of managing how many emails go out, since we scaled up in activity way quicker than expected. We just this minute added a message/link to every email that takes you to Seckler mode to quiet notifications.
One very small piece of UI feedback. I went to draft a post, and the little bottom-right-corner thingy that allows me to make a text box larger would only let me drag it down instead of both down...
One very small piece of UI feedback. I went to draft a post, and the little bottom-right-corner thingy that allows me to make a text box larger would only let me drag it down instead of both down and to the right.
Adding it to our to-fix list! We're a super super super small team so may take a bit but thank you for noting this—honestly feedback (of any size) has been the most valuable thing to us.
Adding it to our to-fix list! We're a super super super small team so may take a bit but thank you for noting this—honestly feedback (of any size) has been the most valuable thing to us.
I've been signed up for like 5 minutes and I already love it. It seems that people got what you were going for pretty quickly. I look forward to browsing around and having some laughs with my...
I've been signed up for like 5 minutes and I already love it. It seems that people got what you were going for pretty quickly. I look forward to browsing around and having some laughs with my coworkers tomorrow!
Ah thank you! We were pretty stoked on how much people got it—turns out tons of people are pretty sick of that corporate culture of phony altruism, self-promotion etc... We also want to keep...
Ah thank you! We were pretty stoked on how much people got it—turns out tons of people are pretty sick of that corporate culture of phony altruism, self-promotion etc...
We also want to keep tweaking and building based on what the users want, so if you have any feedback at all we'd love to hear it!
Yah, one of our biggest fears was that folks wouldn't be 'funny enough' in this weird space, but a lot of our users have put that to rest. We are working on some cool further uses for ads (tied to...
Yah, one of our biggest fears was that folks wouldn't be 'funny enough' in this weird space, but a lot of our users have put that to rest. We are working on some cool further uses for ads (tied to our upcoming Marketplace to spend ShlinkPoints). Like, personal ad galleries so you can bid on and actually buy the ad/product. Still workshopping ideas if you have any!
I don't like being cynical but I kinda agree that if this gets anywhere, you'll be having trademark threats on your hands; have a backup strategy for that. IMO something like "linkedout" is...
I don't like being cynical but I kinda agree that if this gets anywhere, you'll be having trademark threats on your hands; have a backup strategy for that. IMO something like "linkedout" is already less likely to infringe on trademark than "shlinkedin".
We love cynicism! But yeah—it's definitely something we've been prepping for. Spoke with some legal-savvy folks in preparation and feel pretty good about where we're at (and have some...
We love cynicism! But yeah—it's definitely something we've been prepping for. Spoke with some legal-savvy folks in preparation and feel pretty good about where we're at (and have some contingencies if we need to move away from their brand at all). But, we have some solid avenues regarding parody law, and suspect the PR of them trying to crush some small project made lovingly by a really small team wouldn't be ideal for them. Fingers crossed.
Oh yah—one of our first KPIs was "how many cease and desists can we get." For now, parody law seems like a decent enough armor for us, but it's definitely something we're expecting to run into.
Oh yah—one of our first KPIs was "how many cease and desists can we get." For now, parody law seems like a decent enough armor for us, but it's definitely something we're expecting to run into.
This was my favorite: "Social media is a waste of time. We're no different." I'd like to be able to view the rest of the site w/o needing to create a profile though.
This was my favorite: "Social media is a waste of time. We're no different."
I'd like to be able to view the rest of the site w/o needing to create a profile though.
Yeah—that's definitely something we've been hearing in feedback. We are working on changing it so that you can go explore the site without a profile, just taking a little bit of elbow grease—we...
Yeah—that's definitely something we've been hearing in feedback. We are working on changing it so that you can go explore the site without a profile, just taking a little bit of elbow grease—we initially built the site up so that the newsfeed requires a profile to load the correct posts which is making it tricky. But it should be coming soon!
I had issues then I remembered I use a DNS that blocks "non-family friendly" sites. For some reason this got caught in it's filter, so you may check into that
I had issues then I remembered I use a DNS that blocks "non-family friendly" sites. For some reason this got caught in it's filter, so you may check into that
https://tildes.net/~tech/xd0/built_a_satirical_social_network_shlinkedin_would_love_to_pick_yalls_brains_about_social_media_and#comment-6l0d Yep! Thanks for the reminder I'm back on a more...
Let people browse without an account.
If your site exists to call out the worst practices of sites like linkedin then you ought to avoid adopting the very same practices such as growth hacking.
Charlie, co-creator here. I totally agree, and we’re planning on adding this soon. I sorta messed up here by engineering it so that the home page requires a profile to load the correct data onto the page, and it’s been trickier than I thought to refactor that out. The other thing I’d like to mention is that ALL the code for this project is open source, and can be found here: https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked. Thanks for the feedback!!
PS I’m still not great at elixir, but you can see when the home page loads here: https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked/blob/main/lib/shlinkedin_web/live/home_live/index.ex, there’s a lot of data structures coming in based on the profile. But I have a couple avenues to fix this soon!
So, my friend and I are pretty grossed out by LinkedIn (and broader social media), and as we entered the workforce we started this side project. Essentially, you create whatever character you want, and post LinkedIn satire in the form of posts, fake news headlines, fake ads, etc... It just launched, and we've had more organic growth than expected, so we're trying to build it out to be something better for users, and more 'ethical' than most social media sites. I'd love to hear your thoughts on ways to keep a Social Media site more user-friendly (e.g., not collecting/selling user data) as we scale up, and potentially on what features you think would help build this!
Congrats on the launch. Your content generator is hilarious, i think you could spend quite some time adding content to that.
Thank you! We'll def keep adding in options for that (and for the similar "AI-generated" comment thing on the site).
I'm on board! I love it!
One key factor I'm missing with ShlinkedIn is the absence of cold-call recruiters that have this AmAzInG jOb OfFeR that's on the other side of the country, with a skillset that's almost a match for what you actually do.
But aside from that, this is fantastic, and I love being whoever I want to be.
Yes!!! Glad to have you. We have been toying with the idea of a few bots that sporadically message random things (maybe like, NPCs in a video game giving quests), and with more job-posting / recruitment things. If you have any thoughts on what you'd like from those, we crave feedback all the time!
You should feed some real recruiting messages into GPT3 and get it to produce a bunch to be sent out! It would be a perfect bot for that
Oooooh this would be a lot of fun. Adding it to our lil to-do list!
Honestly, the ads are a great template. I'd love to create and
spamsend job offers to qualified individuals.The opt-in toggle implemented on ads is a great touch you could carry over too... Cold-call job offers could be way too real for some users, depending on headhunting season, haha.
Ahaha yeah, straddling that line of funny satire and making it annoying is tricky business. The opt-in bit could be the solution (Are you open to receiving "recruitment" messages?)
Not sure if I'm just missing something but I made the mistake of not using a 10 minute mail and I cant find a way to stop the emails for every single interaction.
Yikes sorry—we have a setting called 'Seckler mode' that disables all emails, and you can activate it by hitting 'Edit Profile' on your profile (it's down by all the profile forms). We're trying to do a better job of managing how many emails go out, since we scaled up in activity way quicker than expected. We just this minute added a message/link to every email that takes you to Seckler mode to quiet notifications.
One very small piece of UI feedback. I went to draft a post, and the little bottom-right-corner thingy that allows me to make a text box larger would only let me drag it down instead of both down and to the right.
Adding it to our to-fix list! We're a super super super small team so may take a bit but thank you for noting this—honestly feedback (of any size) has been the most valuable thing to us.
I've been signed up for like 5 minutes and I already love it. It seems that people got what you were going for pretty quickly. I look forward to browsing around and having some laughs with my coworkers tomorrow!
Ah thank you! We were pretty stoked on how much people got it—turns out tons of people are pretty sick of that corporate culture of phony altruism, self-promotion etc...
We also want to keep tweaking and building based on what the users want, so if you have any feedback at all we'd love to hear it!
So far the fake ads are my favorite part. I love that users get to create them. I've seen some pretty well done and funny ones
Yah, one of our biggest fears was that folks wouldn't be 'funny enough' in this weird space, but a lot of our users have put that to rest. We are working on some cool further uses for ads (tied to our upcoming Marketplace to spend ShlinkPoints). Like, personal ad galleries so you can bid on and actually buy the ad/product. Still workshopping ideas if you have any!
You're probably going to be hearing from LinkedIn's lawyers.
I don't like being cynical but I kinda agree that if this gets anywhere, you'll be having trademark threats on your hands; have a backup strategy for that. IMO something like "linkedout" is already less likely to infringe on trademark than "shlinkedin".
We love cynicism! But yeah—it's definitely something we've been prepping for. Spoke with some legal-savvy folks in preparation and feel pretty good about where we're at (and have some contingencies if we need to move away from their brand at all). But, we have some solid avenues regarding parody law, and suspect the PR of them trying to crush some small project made lovingly by a really small team wouldn't be ideal for them. Fingers crossed.
Oh yah—one of our first KPIs was "how many cease and desists can we get." For now, parody law seems like a decent enough armor for us, but it's definitely something we're expecting to run into.
Is your name Nathan Fielder?
i WISH
This was my favorite: "Social media is a waste of time. We're no different."
I'd like to be able to view the rest of the site w/o needing to create a profile though.
Yeah—that's definitely something we've been hearing in feedback. We are working on changing it so that you can go explore the site without a profile, just taking a little bit of elbow grease—we initially built the site up so that the newsfeed requires a profile to load the correct posts which is making it tricky. But it should be coming soon!
Also, if you're curious at all, you can see the code for how the home page loads here (we're open source!): https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked/blob/main/lib/shlinkedin_web/live/home_live/index.ex
I'm not an engineer/coder myself, so I don't think me looking at it would do any good except to confuse myself! Looking forward to the update!
Is it getting hugged to death? :(
Seems to be working on our end, though it has happened before—you still having problems getting in?
Ahh, seems like our filters caught it. Probably some pattern matching of the URL to avoid phishing attempts?
Yeah, we've encountered that a couple times. Need to fix it (the perils of having a small, unfunded engineering team!), but it is on the list!
I had issues then I remembered I use a DNS that blocks "non-family friendly" sites. For some reason this got caught in it's filter, so you may check into that
https://tildes.net/~tech/xd0/built_a_satirical_social_network_shlinkedin_would_love_to_pick_yalls_brains_about_social_media_and#comment-6l0d
Yep! Thanks for the reminder I'm back on a more "protected" network haha
ShlinkedIn is a lot of things. "family friendly" maybe not hahah. Maybe we'll make ShlinkedIn for Kids down the line...