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Public AI Profiles

Public AI Profiles (2026-02-26): Publish a public Honestify profile at honestify.me/u/{username}—SEO-indexed, recruiter-friendly, with configurable visibility toggles.

·3 min read·Honestify Engineering

Feature area: Public Profiles

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This release covers Public AI Profiles Version 1.7.0, shipped 2026-02-26. Status: shipped. No breaking changes.

Summary

Publish a public Honestify profile at honestify.me/u/—SEO-indexed, recruiter-friendly, with configurable visibility toggles.

Private profiles limited discoverability; engineers rebuilding personal sites duplicated Honestify content manually. Opt-in public profiles with username slugs, meta tags, structured data, and granular section visibility.

What Changed

Username slugs

New

Unique, validated handles for public URLs.

Visibility toggles

New

Hide sections (contact, full project detail) while staying public.

SEO package

Improved

Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Person schema markup.

  • Username slugs — Unique, validated handles for public URLs.
  • Visibility toggles — Hide sections (contact, full project detail) while staying public.
  • SEO package — Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Person schema markup.

Why We Built It

Private profiles limited discoverability; engineers rebuilding personal sites duplicated Honestify content manually.

We prioritized this work because onboarding drop-off and support volume pointed to a clear UX gap. The fix needed to be durable—not a patch—so we addressed root causes in Public Profiles rather than symptoms alone.

Engineers, recruiters, and hiring managers all benefit when Honestify behaves predictably in production. This release reflects that bar.

User Impact

Public profile adoption at 18% of active users; organic impressions on /u/* pages growing week-over-week.

AudienceHow you benefit
EngineersFaster profile setup, clearer AI answers, less manual rework
RecruitersMore complete profiles and reliable share links when candidates use Honestify
Founders / hiring managersBetter signal on candidate preparation and skills alignment
Platform engineersDocumented APIs and stable auth flows

Relevant skills: rag, react, typescript, nextjs. Target roles: frontend engineer, ai engineer, full stack engineer.

Technical Highlights

  • SSR public profile routes with edge caching
  • robots meta per profile privacy setting
  • Username reservation and squatting protections
  • Sitemap inclusion for opted-in profiles

Database migrations were backward-compatible; zero-downtime deploy completed successfully.

Before

Public AI Profiles: before vs after

Before

No public presence on Honestify; users maintained separate portfolio sites.

After

One canonical public URL with AI summary, skills, projects, and optional contact CTA.

Users moving from the previous experience should notice one canonical public URL with AI summary, skills, projects, and optional contact CTA.

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Future Improvements

What we are building next

  • Custom domains (CNAME)
  • Embeddable profile widget
  • Public profile analytics for owners

Known limitations

  • · Username changes limited to once per 30 days

Feedback welcome: Reply via in-app feedback or support—especially if you hit edge cases we did not cover in this release.

This update connects to other Honestify work:

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