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Show HN: wonderful.dev – social platform for programmers (wonderful.dev)
14 points by welder on Jan 12, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
Hey HN, I'm Alan Founder of wonderful.dev (https://wonderful.dev/)

We're building a community for programmers, with a goal to make it easier to network with other devs and connect with companies you’re interested in.

The inspiration for wonderful.dev came from my own experiences job searching in the tech industry. I wanted to create a platform where the focus was on mutual interest and meaningful connections instead of resumes, job applications, and coding challenges.

Here's how wonderful.dev works:

1. Profile creation: You link accounts like GitHub and WakaTime, and we pull in key metrics to create your profile.

2. Matching: Instead of applying to job postings, you explore companies and star the ones you like. If they star you back, you can chat with them.

3. Community timeline: Like Bluesky for devs, you share updates, interact with other devs, and build your network.

When posting to the timeline, we support a subset of Markdown, detect and tag posts with corresponding programming languages for easier discovery, and support integrations with dev tools when posting. Hover over a username to see the programming languages they use, detected from the integrations they connected. Finally, you control your timeline by filtering instead of an algorithm pushing content onto you.

More features: https://wonderful.dev/features

Video intro: https://youtu.be/4RLp4Nbmd_o

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas for what could make wonderful.dev even better.



Please forgive my laziness, but I might be a good example of your target audience, and I didn't bother to login.

There are no companies or developers to browse, and I don't see the added value over, say, LinkedIn or Hacker News.

The current landing page suggests that I have to put in work, and I don't see what I might get back in return.

I don't mean to be harsh here, I'm just supplying a data point :)


Here's an example profile (mine): https://wonderful.dev/alan

You can browse companies here: https://wonderful.dev/companies

Browse the timeline here: https://wonderful.dev/timeline

More info and features: https://wonderful.dev/features


Can you offer your own login? I’d rather not share access to GitHub.


The long term play might be to sell it to GitHub. I'm surprised github doesn't already offer something like this.


> I’d rather not share access to GitHub.

There is no access shared, not sure what u mean


Looks interesting! Wish you the best of luck with it. I think we're in need of a fresh take on dev platforms. Profiles are a good place to start.


what companies are currently on there?





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