The Indorse profile creation page is now open for public beta testing.

My profile on Indorse

https://indorse.io (please use firefox or chrome broswsers)

At Indorse, we don’t believe in building products over huge time-frames, spending months creating a product that people may not want… Instead, we build and launch incrementally. Testing usage and getting feedback from users as to the features and functionality that they want- looking for proper product/market fit.

With this in mind- we are opening up the beta profile creation platform- allowing you to create a basic profile. To speed up the process, we’ve built a Linkedin profile import tool (requested by our community). We are using a PDF import to avoid any API shutdown issues.

With the import of your Linked profile, you’ll see a skills visualizer- showing you the advancement of your experience, from white belt to black.

Visually, and interactively, the beta MVP is very basic- but there is a lot going on behind the scenes. For details of how we are building the platform, check out Gaurang’s Dev Updates.

Although we were earlier planning to have Ethereum transactions and token utility integrated for this release, that’s not the case. We have been following Lean Methodology and decided to release this version, built on a decentralized stack including Airbitz and BigchainDB. Please note that we will not be doing any mainnet transactions in this release.

Our goal is to create a decentralized platform- however, decentralized platforms are vulnerable to whats known as Sybil attacks- where a user can create multiple profiles to game the platform.

In order to be assured that a profile is authentic, we will soon be testing the use of multiple social media sign-ins, to create a % of likelihood of uniqueness. So if you connect your Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media channels, the system will assign you a %, and once you hit a certain threshold, its highly likely that the profile belongs to a unique individual. I need to thank my friend Toby from TenX for this idea, which he had mentioned to me last year when working on a possible KYC solution for their Crypto-Credit Card. I don’t believe it is usable for financial products due to regulatory issues, but for a social network, it’s viable :) A very senior data scientist is one of our advisers, is helping us with this. (He is not listed on the website to protect his current position)

Since we do not want to hold private keys of users for security reasons, we‘ll also be integrating the Edge Security mobile application (formerly called Airbitz). This is an awesome decentralized mobile wallet, which will make it easier for members to sign transactions.

The profile page is the first step to several other applications we plan on developing for the platform such as importing our partners validated skills, and ultimately crowd verified skills.

Please join us over at the our rocket chat community, and let us know what you think of the MVP, possible feature requests, bug reports and anything else you’d like to discuss about the platform. https://community.indorse.io/