Private person record
Email and LinkedIn
Overflow uses these for review, contact, event participation, and matching. LinkedIn is rejected if it appears inside an uploaded project-fit profile.
How matching works
Evidence first. Introductions after.
Overflow's matching layer starts with a project-fit profile generated from work on your own machine, reviewed by you, and submitted with a standing-community application.
The flow
From local work history to a private matching record.
- Run the public prompt. Copy it into a capable coding agent. It reads supported local AI-coding session history and writes one HTML project-fit file.
- Review the result. Nothing submits itself. Edit or remove anything you do not want to share, then inspect the profile before upload.
- Submit the application. Overflow requires the reviewed HTML, email, and LinkedIn. LinkedIn stays on the private person record, outside the project-fit profile.
- Choose visibility. The profile is private to Overflow by default. Public publication is an explicit choice, and profile owners can change it later.
- Enter membership review. A completed application sets the membership record to applied. The organizer decides membership through the private admin.
- Keep matching evidence queryable. Overflow stores structured profile data and skill rows so the private bench can be searched and compared when fit matters.
What is separated
Contact identity and project-fit evidence do not have to travel together.
Project-fit record
Skills, tools, domains, and fit
The uploaded file and its structured data support the matching view. The current upload path also checks for common secrets and private keys.
Private by default
No public URL unless selected
Applicants choose between private-to-Overflow and public publication. Private is the default in the application interface.
Owner controlled
Publish, replace, or delete
A secure management link lets the profile owner preview, publish, unpublish, replace, update the private LinkedIn record, or delete the project-fit profile.
Separate on purpose
An event RSVP is not a membership application.
People can request an invite to the Austin event with a short RSVP. The project-fit assessment is not required for event attendance.
The assessment becomes required only when someone applies to the standing community and its private matching layer.
- Attend: request an event invite with name, email, and LinkedIn.
- Apply: submit the reviewed project-fit profile with the standing-community application.
- Manage: use the secure profile flow to change publication or replace the evidence.