INTRODUCTION
One of the most prominent things that matter if you belong to the tech industry is sharing your learnings in public and showcasing your skills. For this, you need a community where people, irrespective of their experience, background, and followers count can be a part of and showcase their work to the world.
Linkedin is one such platform that is known as the social networking platform for professionals and has been the go-to location where people promote their work and connect with other folks, but as change is a constant in the tech industry, the traditional norm of a profile has changed significantly and people in tech are not just focusing on writing code.
In the present times, Developers are encouraged to learn in public and share their learnings with the community. They are not following the old norms of building bland resumes and are now getting more diverse by creating content alongside building amazing projects, contributing to open source projects, writing blogs, and creating tutorial videos.
Developers are multitasking with many things, and thus require a profile where they can showcase all of their work, but Linkedin is incompetent in providing this feature to us.
Many go on to create their own personal Portfolio but then they have to regularly update it which is not a feasible option for some.
Enter Peerlist
Peerlist is a Year old startup. It is a community-led professional networking platform for people in tech. Founded by Yogini Bende and Akash Bhadange.
Peerlist provides individuals a platform where they showcase their skills on a single page, it removes the hassle of creating and maintaining a personal portfolio.
It helps you to streamline all your work and automatically updates your profile when you create, delete, or update something on other integrated platforms.
Peerlist Profile
what makes peerlist stand out from other social networks is that it solves the major issue of showcasing all these skills on a single page.
Your peerlist profile can contain your
- GitHub contributions
- GitHub repository
- Your projects
- Your design work : Dribbble
- Blogs published : Hashnode, medium, dev.to, RSS, Substack)
- Videos : Youtube
- Your Products : Product Hunt, Gumroad
You can find me on Peerlist here.
But It's is not just a profile builder, it's a community
Peerlist Scroll
Peerlist's scroll is a feature to share your work with the peerlist community Peerlist helps to showcase your work and lets you connect with like-minded people, as the posts are context-based rather than content-based which helps you to save time. This saves your time from irrelevant content which people posts for increasing engagement
Peerlist scroll at first glance looks like an ordinary feed section but what makes it stand out from others is the way the posts are published, here the context of the post matters more than the content which helps to reduce the clutter in your feed and helps you to save yourself from those engagement hungry posts usually found on every social networking sites.
As you can look in the scroll guidelines
Peerlist’s core mission is “Credibility over Popularity”
Here you'll find many like-minded people to connect with within the community. When a person follows you back in Peerlist, you become Peers 🤝, and here your posts get kudos 👍 rather than likes
Find Jobs
Searching for a job on peerlist is very straightforward, you can filter out your preference and can look for that one desired role.
Peerlist helps you find exciting job opportunities, from fast-growing early-stage startups to the unicorns you know & love.
For recruiters
Peerlist is a great place for recruiters to find young talents. It is an easier way for a recruiter to find the credibility of the applicant with proof-of-work in a single page
You can also look at their work experience as it integrates with LinkedIn to import the required information
There are many more features on the way which will help in making recruiting great talent a piece of cake
Professional Networking in an ideal world
To increase one's profile views, people are accustomed to publishing irrelevant posts and writing cold comments on others' posts, which reduces the human touch on a platform and thus conveys fewer emotions. People should focus less on traffic and more on the feelings conveyed through a post.
Peerlist has a word limit of 280 which means it won't take long for a person to read through the whole post in a minute and also as mentioned in the guidelines
Your activity or engagement on Scroll will have no effect on your profile ranking in Peerlist search results.
Which encourages a person to engage with a post only if they found it interesting and thus people can leave meaningful comments and have real engagement with their peers
My Thoughts
Peerist is a great platform with many amazing features to help an individual grow and learn with others. It feels modern to use, as compared to Linkedin's bland UI. It's been a year since it was released and since then it has introduced so many amazing features. It's still in its beta version but soon will be production ready, and I hope they introduce the dark mode as soon as possible. It's amazing to see a side project turning into a successful startup. What makes peerlist stand out from other Linkedin alternatives is that it's not trying to be something completely new, but trying to solve a real problem and provide the features needed by us.
Conclusion
Peerlist has still a long way to go and still is a pretty small community but with amazing community support and a super engineering team, it can become the go-to destination for developers and can take shake the monopoly in the tech industry. If you created your account after reading this article don't forget to follow me on peerlist.
I hope you enjoyed reading this blog as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you haven't created an account on Peerlist you are missing many things, go and create it. Share this article with someone who should be interested in it. If you liked the article leave a heart or a thumbs up or better, both. Suggestions for any betterment of this article are highly welcome. Do let me know your reviews about this blog in the comments.