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Love the idea.

Suggestions:

1) add a way to filter by skill without logging on (if I don't see something I can help with, where's my incentive to open an account?)

2) add a hardware tag e.g., "embedded," "hardware," "Arduino," "mechanical" Most of my useful skills are in embedded programming and hardware design and I really like doing short projects.



Add the tag yourself! My profile [1] features EMBEDDED C, PCB-DESIGN, and DSP tags. EMBEDDED C existed, I created the other two. EMBEDDED and EMBEDDED SW were also extant when I got here, but there's currently no search feature to see who else uses these tags or what projects used them.

I think HARDWARE is too ambiguous; this could apply to anything from implementing a task on a breadboard to architecting a server rack.

That said, Thomas said that they were working on improved tag features as fas [sic, he's working fast!] as they could. [2].

I've suggested this on the UserVoice tracker [3].

[1]: http://www.weekendhacker.net/hackers/Kevin%20Vermeer

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3238678

[3]: http://weekendhacker.uservoice.com/forums/138659-general/sug...




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