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32 pointspreetsojitra10mo ago13 comments

Hi HN,

I saw joke online about wanting a version of Linkedin for failures. I thought it was a great idea, so I decided to build a simple version of it.

Sinkedin is a place to post (anonymously) stories about job rejections, interview screw-ups and other carrer failures.

Website: https://www.sinkedin.app/ Github: https://github.com/Preet-Sojitra/sinkedin

I am not a designer, so the UI is very minimalistic. If it triggers your OCD, PRs are very welcome.

The entire stack is running on free tiers, so please expect some latency if it gets any traffic. I wanted to ship it fast and see if the idea has legs before spending money.

Happy to answer any questions.

13 comments

SoominH10mo ago

I was excited to try “Explore the Chaos” and wanted to share something — just a quick, anonymous post — but I saw I had to log in.

It felt like a bit of a barrier.

Would love an option to leave a one-time message without signing in, almost like dipping a toe into the chaos before diving in fully.

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

Hi thanks for the feedback. I am planning to make login fully optional. Will be implemented in next update.

karmakaze10mo ago

The site doesn't seem to understand what anonymously means: "Continue with Google"?

What's the point of having a barrier of creating a throwaway email to post a story?

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

You are right. I apologize for the confusing experience. My only reason to sign-up was to prevent spam. Based on this feedback, I will make it optional.

Thank you for the feedback.

karmakaze10mo ago

Thanks. I wondered if that might be the reason, but then thought if anyone has loads of ready-to-go-throwaway-emails it would be the spammers. Maybe using AI to fight spammy posts can work for a while if it needs automation.

felix08910mo ago

fun concept, but why require sign up at all? anon posting seems central to the idea and spam could be managed through creative system design, at least in the early stages

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

Hi thanks for the feedback. I will make signup optional and will figure out way to handle spam. It would be great if you can throw some ideas of handling spam by creative system design. I am not experienced developer and trying to learn as much as I can.

hypercube3310mo ago

Actually before even visiting - I'd sign up. I make plenty of mistakes in my personal career learning but how you learn from screwing up is what I'd want to learn about from others so I'd be. inclined to post about my own. To err is to human and all that

djfobbz10mo ago

I'm still using shlinkedin.com pretty heavily!

chdavid10mo ago

Think this is funny. How did you make the website? Asking out of of curiosity, it looks like one I made with Windsurf a while back

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

haha, it will look similar because I coded it with claude and gemini 2.5 pro. During brainstorming I just asked claude to make static html mocks and this is the best version that I was able to achieve. I feel like improving color scheme but AI peaked at this color theme as is unable to give better results

McDyver10mo ago

Is this "the future"?

Someone whips up and deploys something with an LLM, but is unable to change a colour scheme because "computer says no".

At the same time you need to register and provide an email. How confident are you about what to do when there's a leak?

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13 comments

SoominH10mo ago

I was excited to try “Explore the Chaos” and wanted to share something — just a quick, anonymous post — but I saw I had to log in.

It felt like a bit of a barrier.

Would love an option to leave a one-time message without signing in, almost like dipping a toe into the chaos before diving in fully.

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

Hi thanks for the feedback. I am planning to make login fully optional. Will be implemented in next update.

karmakaze10mo ago

The site doesn't seem to understand what anonymously means: "Continue with Google"?

What's the point of having a barrier of creating a throwaway email to post a story?

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

You are right. I apologize for the confusing experience. My only reason to sign-up was to prevent spam. Based on this feedback, I will make it optional.

Thank you for the feedback.

karmakaze10mo ago

felix08910mo ago

fun concept, but why require sign up at all? anon posting seems central to the idea and spam could be managed through creative system design, at least in the early stages

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

hypercube3310mo ago

djfobbz10mo ago

I'm still using shlinkedin.com pretty heavily!

chdavid10mo ago

Think this is funny. How did you make the website? Asking out of of curiosity, it looks like one I made with Windsurf a while back

preetsojitraOP10mo ago

McDyver10mo ago

Is this "the future"?

Someone whips up and deploys something with an LLM, but is unable to change a colour scheme because "computer says no".

At the same time you need to register and provide an email. How confident are you about what to do when there's a leak?

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