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From prakis

I feel most of the text conent can be improved, some content is a bit hard to understand. It took me sometime to understand that there is a separate tool called Stackmuncher which runs on my code. This is very important feature, I think you should highlight it and let the dev understand it clearly. For example you can say something on the top like "Run Stackmuncher and get a report on your code". Show a sample of how the report looks etc.

I felt there is a lot more text. Some of the headings also can be made smaller

example - "Find software developers with the right skills and expertise"

can be changed to

"Find devs with the right skills and expertise".

Some places text like Code privacy can be made to a link when user mouse over it can popup or a dialog.

You can use icons in many places example github.

Almost all the text on the UI is of two different font sizes. I think you can use more font sizes, especially for some less important stuff you can reduce the font size.

Panels looks like boxes, you can make them bit curvy and headings may look better if they are centered.

Again I am not an UX expert. I suggest you get some feedback from Victor twitter @vponamariov . His suggestions and twitter comments on UX are excellent. I learned alot just by following his twitter posts.

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From mzrnsh

Regarding Stack Muncher:

Run StackMuncher profile builder over your current and past projects

Directly mention what kind of projects. Git projects? Projects listed on my portfolio website? This is one of the first things I read, make it count.

StackMuncher profile builder is an open-source code analysis app.

This might be misinterpreted that you help developers who contribute to open source. Will scare away people like me, who have almost non-existent open source activity.

Stack size: 22

What does this mean?

"Anonymous profiles, Public profiles, Member privacy, Code privacy, No member ranking" - maybe use some icons in this section? Looks too boring

As a freelancer, I wouldn't sign up for a platform that doesn't already have clients they can send my way. I understand you gotta start somewhere. Are you a freelancer yourself? Then you must have a handful of clients you can convince to get listed on your platform.

From Obi on Reddit

my question is, Do they have client looking for devs?
Haven't heard about them.

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From orliesaurus on IH

Does the H1 title make it clear what the site does?

Yes but you should have the H2 above the bulletpoints

Do you get a clear idea how it works from the 1-2-3 bullet points at the top?

You don't explain wtf stackmuncher is so it coudl be better.

What questions / objections do you have after looking at the page?

What does a profile look like after stackmuncher analyzed it? Got any examples?

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From danp

I don't think is addressed clearly is: "what is this profile builder actually going to do? what permissions will I need to give it?". I don't want to click an extra link to find that out.

From a design point of view, I would say there is an overuse of gray boxes moving down the page. It creates no hierachy and makes it very difficult for me to scan. It also makes them all seem like different types of the same entity.

For me, its not so much about security but rather the CTA to use the profile builder represents a lot of mental load to me. I don't know if that's going to be a simple experience or a bit finnicky, and so I am hesitant to find out.

I think something simple to layout what exactly happens as part of that flow would alleviate that mental load.

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From deependrax

Nice idea i would say, as you have mentioned you are running some kind of analysis program which can be run locally... i'm assuming in this case you will grow your index incrementally... one thing you could do is analyse all public repos on github (if not doing already) to give a initial push to the number of profiles (tagged as open source contributor or something... also think about how appreciated someones opensource work is already on github by stars and forks)...

• one think i was looking for but didnt found was location based search... it would be good to have a location filter (starting with country then may be city too)

• the search i would say would be great UX if it works without the submit hit... i should just write and react based update the result without reloading...

• you can improve what world is working on... as a tag cloud... somehow you will need to find some attribute of usage, developers working on etc... and make it a tag cloud with most relevant technologies bolder, higher font, on top etc... (currently its not that usable as i see lot of stuff in this and all equal font)