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I Built a Developer Social Platform Where Your GitHub IS Your Identity — Here's Why
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I Built a Developer Social Platform Where Your GitHub IS Your Identity — Here's Why

via Dev.to WebdevTitan3h ago

Most developer social platforms get one thing fundamentally wrong. They ask you to build a profile from scratch. Pick a username. Write a bio. Upload an avatar. Fill in your skills. Add your projects manually. Essentially — describe yourself as a developer. But your GitHub already does that. Better than any form ever could. 892 commits in the last year. TypeScript, Go, Rust. Real repos. Real stars. Real contribution history. That's not a profile — that's proof. That's the idea behind Nexus . Why I Built This I'm Titan. I'm 15, based in Lagos, Nigeria, and I build things with whatever I have — no funding, no team, no co-founders. Just an HP OmniBook and a problem I couldn't stop thinking about. The problem: every "developer community" platform I'd tried felt like LinkedIn with a dark theme. You show up, fill in boxes, hope someone reads your bio. There's no signal. Anyone can claim anything. GitHub already solved identity for developers. Your commit graph doesn't lie. Your repos don't l

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