Showwcase

• WorkedWith connections
• Creating Shows with specialised components
• Connecting with Threads within the community
• Customisable profiles
• Status sharing

We're still in the early stages and have a long way to go, we welcome all kinds of feedback and hope the platform brings you value.

We're 3 weeks delayed but we finally were able to sufficiently test and clean up enough bugs to ship our latest app from beta to production!

There is a saying: "No plan survives first contact with the enemy", but we're confident in where we are right now to make it available publicly. Still continuing to talk to our users, get feedback from different communities to better the product going forward.

We recently revamped our landing page in preparation of our official launch of Showwcase. We're finally at the stage where we want to publicly share Showwcase in different communities and wanted to polish our site accordingly.

Also, now that we have a lot more to offer on the platform, we wanted the landing page the reflect that so people could learn more.

After 3 months of continuous hacking, iteration, endless feedback, and a lot of help, we released Showwcase 2.0 which is starting to slowly align with our vision of building a completely new way to represent who we are and build connection with our communities. We're not even close to where we need to be.

As tech workers, we're always building new web and mobile apps, working on new data pipelines, analysing new datasets, and tinkering on the latest machine learning algorithms. This is how we learn, what we love to do, and how we grow in our careers.

Most of the time, no one ever hears about it, it's either stored away in a repository, a personal website with low traffic, or slapped onto a resume, never to be seen again. But the things you've worked on are incredibly valuable, it allows you to share your knowledge, your process, and usually leads to more opportunities when others learn about what you're doing. It shows what you're passionate about and lets the community learn from what you're building.

Shows are a flexible way for you to share what you are working, or have worked on, with the rest of the tech community. A show can be a project, a online side-hustle, articles, products, research, and anything you've made.

With Showwcase, you can have everything you've worked on right in your profile, alongside your skills, work, network, and so much more. You can also share it in the community (optional) where users can discuss, learn, like, and test your Shows.

These can be small, or large, can be anything you've worked on personally, or with your WorkedWith teams. It never needs to be perfect, or even optimal, it just has to be something that you want to share! We've build a series of Components in the Show editor that helps you easily share what you're working on.

As a software engineer, it's been incredibly frustrating using networks where connections are meaningless. The incentives to connect have been misaligned, it deteriorates the user experience, and worse, it kills the value of your network.

We recently introduced WorkedWith on Showwcase: WorkedWith is a form of connection that you can make between you and other tech workers that you are workng, or have worked, with. It allows you to bring people into your network, but in a more nuanced and direct way.

As tech workers, we're always working on something new. Be it side projects, new products, diving into research, analysing new datasets or starting an online business. Sometimes we do it alone, and other times we're working on these with others.

WorkedWith allows you to add those valuable teams of yours into your network. Now the community can see who are truly in your network, the valuable people that you've had a real working relationship with!

Your network is valuable, protect it!

In July, we came up with the most basic MVP where I shared it with 40 or so friends. Built completely in Javascript, AWS, and React, you could only share what you were working on with what we now call Shows.

I got my friends to post a few projects, test the site, and give their feedback on what features they would like to see. There was basically no traffic but myself visiting the site. We called this beta and were fixing all the bugs and adding features for 2 months.

In 2017, I moved to San Francisco to learn to code. After a year of hardcore coding, building projects, and endless studying, my front page to join the tech industry was an A4 resume. There was no way I could share what I was passionate about, all the projects I've built, and was a terrible way to feature my skills (most people would just slap a list of technologies on it) - completely antiquated.

My alternatives were LinkedIn (Horizontal, boilerplate, with meaningless connections), build a personal website (time-consuming, no visibility, and poorly designed), or Github (which I love, but where I had hundreds of repositories, most idle, and was rigid to what I could showcase).

On top of this, every business was transitioning into a technology business. Tech workers are increasingly the most important asset to every business, company, and idea. The demand for tech workers was growing exponentially, and the resulting outcome was that millions of people were moving into the tech industry every year.

In sum, the number of tech workers in the world was increasing, yet no platform was specifically optimised for our representation, our content, and our workflows.

When the pandemic hit, everything was accelerated and I went all-in on Showwcase in May 2020. We're entering the Future of Work era for tech workers, defined by teams working from anywhere, flexible workforces, on-demand augmentation teams, gig work, independent creators, people businesses, and solopreneurs. We needed a new platform built for us.

At Showwcase, our goal is to build a completely new way to represent who we are, build connection with our communities, and gain access to these future-of-work opportunities.