Ask HN: Devs who don't use GitHub, what do you use to share your portfolio?

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by abdelhai • 12 years ago

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Something like Dribbble or Behance for developers..

dalke• 12 years ago

When you say "Github" do you mean it as a synecdoche to include the other well-known site hosts like Bitbucket, Gitorius and the venerable Sourceforge?

Or, to reference an old magazine cover, is it more of a "View of the World from 9th Avenue" thing? FWIW, all of my code is on Bitbucket.

abdelhai3• 12 years ago

Yes, the title has a character limit.. VCS is a way to share projects but i think it is missing something to be the go-to web page for developers..

lukasm• 12 years ago

Well, there is https://geekli.st/ and https://coderwall.com/welcome not sure what would be the use case for something that github cannot do.

cat9• 12 years ago

The main fallacy here is assuming I need a portfolio at all. It's quite easy to get work without bothering with that. Or a resume. Or playing footsie with HR. You filter out some opportunities, yes. But have you SEEN the market for even decently competent programmers lately?

I put code on GitHub on the off chance someone else will find it useful or informative. Between the user base, platform usability, and the fact that I use git anyway, it's convenient for that. But "portfolio" isn't really a consideration.

If, for some reason, you want a portfolio anyway: my recommendation would be private website + GitHub. Preferably, in the form of writing an article demonstrating why a given project on GitHub is novel or interesting or useful. If you go that way, any off-the-shelf blogging tool should work (e.g. Jekyll / Octopress + GitHub Pages), and it will tend to be more useful to the community as large (which increases the odds of other devs explicitly being interested in working with you).

abdelhai3• 12 years ago

Yes it seems like the only way to do it right now is to build it yourself. I have found some WP themes which are suitable for a developer portfolio site. I don't live in the US, so the job finding/ hiring process looks a bit different.

throwwww• 12 years ago

It pains me to read a comment such as this. I've been programming for 15 years (python, js, c - based out of the US west coast) and have been out of work for most of 2014. The reason appears to be the 2 years I took off to stay at home with the kids when my wife became sick (she's fine now). I've kept up with tech changes and what not, but employers just can't see past it. So no, I can't say I've seen the market for decently competent programmers.

bbcbasic• 12 years ago

That is shitty. You may need to get 'creative' with your CV.

percept• 12 years ago

I think a strong portfolio would be more necessary in this case.

It appears you have a good skillset--I hope everything works out.

Ask HN: Devs who don't use GitHub, what do you use to share your portfolio?

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