Openspot

Maker

📌

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I’m Julian, one of the co-founders of Openspot and we’re building a platform born from the frustrations we've all felt with traditional, static resumes and outdated networking platforms.

Let’s be honest:

📉 LinkedIn feels more like Facebook than a hiring / networking platform.

📎 Resumes are just decorated bullet points and aren't built for a competitive job market. How do you get to know someone or stand out through bullet points?

🤝 Networking? Awkward and superficial.

We built Openspot because we were tired of feeling invisible in a sea of sameness.

What makes it hit:

📹 Add a short video or voice intro

🪩 Beautiful profiles that feel human

🎯 Built for standing out, not feeding the content machine

🔍 Recruiters can search you via natural language (yes, really)

🧑‍🎤 Prompts that help people understand the person behind the profile.

We started this with a simple hack: building personal sites and video resumes that actually worked. Now we’ve turned it into something anyone can use in minutes.

🚀 We hit #1 on Hacker News last week with 450+ comments and wild feedback.

🛠️ We're raw, bootstrapped, and building this for people like us.

If you’ve ever felt overlooked or boxed in by traditional platforms: try Openspot.

We’d love your feedback, your ideas, and yeah… even your roasts.

Let’s make job searching and networking actually human.

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2mo ago

Gabe Moronta

Visla

@fliellerjulian interesting others have tried, Peerlist, Polywork to name a few..it’s so hard to execute. But i do believe it’s time for another contender, good luck, hope you pull it off. Maybe worth going after a few strategic business partners to signup make it more viable.

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2mo ago

Julian Flieller

Openspot

Maker

@mogabr Thanks so much! really appreciate that!

Yeah, totally agree execution is tough. From our perspective, Peerlist and Polywork are still pretty close to LinkedIn in terms of structure: basic profiles, followers, feed, etc. Just with a slightly more modern coat of paint.

We're trying to go a different route: no social feed, no likes, no “personal brand” pressure, just scrollable, expressive profiles that help you stand out when it matters (especially with optional video/audio).

And yep, we’re already talking to a few early hiring partners to make the network more valuable on both sides 🙌

Would love to hear who you’d go after first if you were us!

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2mo ago

Tom Bowman

@mogabr @fliellerjulian Best of luck sir

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2mo ago

Stain Lu

Grimo

@fliellerjulian finally something different! i've had enough of all the BS on linkedin lately, seriously. it's just noise most days ( T_T). openspot looks like a breath of fresh air, maybe a place where you can actually show who you are? not just buzzwords. looks really clean. nice job and congrats on the launch team!!

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2mo ago