Peerlist 1.0 — The professional network for people in tech

Today is a big day for everyone here at Peerlist! We are finally getting out-of-beta after working on Peerlist for more than 2 years. You must be wondering why we’re building a Professional Network while there is already a big player in the market since decades. Well here are few things: 1. We want to redefine Professional Networking This used to sound absurd initially when we just started. But now we are much more confident that we can do it. We’re focused on this ultimate goal! “It’s just as hard to build a mediocre company as a transformative one. Both will take 100% of your time. So you might as well work on a bigger idea.” - James Currier The way we network has changed significantly in recent times. Credibility and proof-of-work are the most critical recruitment factors and became even more significant since remote work become a norm. Companies don’t hire just by your past work experience or academics. We enable you to showcase your work more effectively and expose you to new opportunities. 2. We are building something people want! We started receiving overwhelming responses just after launching the invite-only beta. Our early adopters started adding their Peerlist profile to their Twitter bio, in their resumes, sharing it with recruiters, and recommending it to their friends. We grew to 40,000+ users just by word-of-mouth! Peerlist is growing significantly month-on-month, and all our new users are joining us by word-of-mouth. We haven’t spent a single penny on marketing till today. All the growth is organic. We are taking this as a signal that we are solving the right problem. 3. We are enjoying it! We launched our public beta on 24th May 2022 here on Product Hunt. What a day it was and what a response we got! We still can’t forget that day. We were nervous like hell. The adrenaline rush of shipping your side project is something else. The response we received from our community was just excellent. @heyyogini and I embarked on this incredible journey after considerable contemplation. Though the days come with ups and downs, we enjoy this journey. And now we are an incredible team of 6. We are confident we will keep growing from here - getting better at what we are doing, helping more and more people, and solving more and more problems. Our journey has just started, and we are grateful for the continued support of Product Hunt community! 💚 Please do share your feedback, questions or anything you would love to know about Peerlist.

Super stoked to see Peerlist come out of beta 🚀 It's incredible to see you grow from an idea to a full-fledged startup with hustle and intention. Peerlist design and execution are so good I think it will give a tough fight for LinkedIn in 2024 🔥 Congrats on today’s launch 👏🏼

Congratulations on the launch! Looks cool and always looking for an alternative to LinkedIn. Weird technical issue. I am unable to publish my profile and it's at 70% complete. Does it have to be 71% complete?

This is super cool: https://peerlist.io/github-recap (is it possible to add the user-name in the url? would be awesome to share to other people etc)

Big fan big fan big fan, this is creating a new era of how professional network should look like at this age and time, lesss gooooo 🚀🚀 peerlist team 🙌

Interesting! How do you see the value of what you are building when compared to LinkedIn for example?

Congrats on the launch and what a clean and easy to use platform - I thought the onboarding process was super smooth and loved how you had to have a 70% complete profile to be able to be seen. I am so tired of the amount of spam I get on LinkedIn via messages and on my feed, so I am really looking forward to seeing how Peerlist evolves and grows! Congrats on the launch team 🚀

Finally, it's time! Peerlist is now out of beta!! A two-person side project became a Product built by a team of 6 people and loved by thousands!!! Never did I think, that building a side project would be this rewarding! Going out of words! 💚

Congrats! I enjoyed this product since I discovered it. I wish the best of good luck for the founding team! 💫

Congratulations @heyyogini @designerdada and the Peerlist team! I enjoyed this product and community since I discovered it. it's truly inspiring to witness their incredible growth and dedication to building the best professional network platform. Super pumped for what's coming up!

Proud to see Peerlist coming out of beta. They have got exceptional standout features and created a right balance between a portfolio and professional networking.

Congrats on the launch, this looks amazing! Where is it pulling my country/city from during registration? I've linked my Linkedin and GitHub profiles and in both I have it set to UK but it still somehow got it wrong. No biggie, just wondering what I forgot to update! Congrats again and good luck!

Pretty interesting, it’s always nice to find communities of common minded people! It’s probably asking a bit too many questions at the beginning, and the case sensitive confirmation code was a bit annoying 😂 That said, site looks great and I was happy to secure my user

Witnessing your trajectory from the very start has been an inspiring experience for me. 📈💪 Cheers to many more milestones and making building in public big!! 🚀 Congratulation @heyyogini , @designerdada & the entire Peerlist team. 💚

Really awesome product. Keen to see where you guys take it! The design is incredible as well - nice work Akash 👌

I’ve been an early adopter of Peerlist and have seen the team work hard through thick and thin over the couple of years. I’ve been so in awe of the product from the start that I didn’t realise they were not out of Beta yet! Congratulations on the milestone which is one in a thousand others to come soon! 🙌🍾

Best wishes to @designerdada, @heyyogini and the entire Peerlist team, been following them since day 1 and they deserve all the success and more!

Congratulations on the launch team! Have been a happy user of the platform, looking forward to all exciting updates 🚀

Can really see potential with this, just hope it doesn’t turn into a spam fest like LinkedIn. Would be cool to keep it more social and job/project related without the unnecessary posts.

Congratulations on the official launch of Peerlist 1.0, Akash! It's incredible to see your passion and the dedication over the past two years come to fruition. Redefining professional networking is no small feat, and it sounds like you're on the right track with such organic growth and a community that believes in your vision. It's the enthusiasm and enjoyment that you and @heyyogini bring to the table that truly makes a difference. Wishing you continued success and looking forward to seeing how Peerlist transforms the tech networking space! Keep up the fantastic work.