I wanted to make a simple Linkedin alternative for a long time, based on the primitive idea that the news feed is entirely based on CV updates. No posts, no reactions, no reposts, etc. Just a way to keep your work history and share it with others. Of course, it won't work unless a lot of people join in a short period of time. I don't know how to pull this off.

Well if you ever do build it and post it here I bet you’d get a lot of signups. Especially if you built in an easy referral system where people could send mass invites to their friends if they log in through Google for example.

But I actually wonder if you need the “social graph” at all at first. You could start by making it a place where people post jobs and apply for them. The network effects will come later. All you need is maybe a simple algorithm that matches users to postings they might qualify for.

You just have to build it and have it ready on the sidelines for when something big and egregious happens that a bunch of people are willing to switch at once. Kind of like how BlueSky got its influx.