McLarenF1

Most of us write code every day, but our contributions are locked inside our employer’s repos. GitHub shows snippets of what we can do, but it wasn’t built to answer: “What’s in it for me as a developer?”

We’ve been building Buildbook, a platform where engineers can: 1. Get peer code reviews outside work, the #1 thing many devs say accelerates their growth. 2. Build a living portfolio, contributions, and skills update in real time as you ship side projects, not just when you update a static resume. 3. Collaborate with verified peers across companies, so you know the people you’re working with actually have the background they claim. 4. Experiment with stacks outside your day job- try Rust if you’re stuck in Java, or infra work if you’re usually in frontend.

To make this open and portable, we’re integrating Nostr: A. NIP-05 verified identities tied to your professional presence. B. NIP-33 portable resumes that live beyond any single platform. C. Signed contribution attestations so your proof-of-work is verifiable anywhere.

This isn’t “another GitHub.”

GitHub is great at hosting repositories, but Buildbook is focused on the developer’s growth and reputation, helping you receive feedback, expand your skills, and build a verifiable career narrative across organizations.

We launched in January and now have 25,000 users, including 3,000 students from 800 universities. We’re now opening up our professional portal.

Curious to hear from HN: Would you use something like this for peer reviews, skill-building, or building a proof-of-work portfolio outside your org?

buildbook.us

Back in January, we launched a small MVP with a few hundred users. Buildbook is a community network by technical people for technical people. We want to make it easy to find others to meet and build with, so you don't need to go through founder speed dating or communicate with dodgy people online. Everyone is verified and technical.

Today, we launched our latest version of Buildbook to over 23,000 people and 3,000 waitlist users across 850 universities! We're super excited about the growth and look forward to helping every student and professional contribute to their skillset through collaborative learning.

We're looking for people who know how to hack VDIs/VMs,questions will be answered later. I just want to know if you can do the job, know someone who can, etc.

Can YC's application question; "Please tell us about a time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." Include a growth hacking method that happened on a computer, but didn't include any code?

We found a unique way to hack growth for our product and it would help if we could mention it I think.