I’ve been working on a side project called GitCard, and I’m finally at the point where I’d like other developers to try it.
The original idea was pretty simple:
Developers have GitHub, LinkedIn, resumes, and personal websites, but it can still be difficult to quickly show someone what you’ve actually built.
Designers have platforms like Behance where the work itself is front and center, so I started wondering what a more visual project showcase could look like for developers.
That idea turned into GitCard.
Right now, GitCard lets developers connect their GitHub account and build a profile around their projects.
You can showcase repositories, add project screenshots and descriptions, highlight the technologies you used, and create a profile you can share with other developers, recruiters, or people you meet.
I also experimented with something a little different: a wallet-sized physical card with a QR code that links back to your GitCard profile.
The thought was that at a meetup, hackathon, conference, career fair, or even just a random conversation, someone could scan your card and immediately see the projects you’ve worked on.
I’m still figuring out whether that part is genuinely useful or just something I personally think is cool.
Longer term, I’m interested in exploring whether GitCard could become more community-driven — somewhere developers can discover interesting projects, find other people working with similar technologies, collaborate, and learn from what others are building.
But I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself.
Right now, I mostly want to find out whether the basic product is useful.
If anyone here is willing to try it, I’d really appreciate feedback on a few things:
- Does the profile make a developer’s work easier to understand than just looking through GitHub?
- Which parts of the profile feel useful, and which feel unnecessary?
- Would you actually share a GitCard profile with someone?
- Does the physical QR card idea make sense to you?
- What would make you want to return after creating your profile?
- Is there something you expected the product to do that it currently doesn’t?
The site is:
There are still bugs and rough edges, so criticism is completely welcome. I’d rather find out what developers actually want than keep adding features based only on my own assumptions.
I’m also happy to answer questions about how I built it or why I made certain product decisions.
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