I don't remember how I heard about UpSpot. I think, I got an email invite to try it either through LinkedIn or AngelList. But having received the email, I decided to check it out. The website seems to focus on highly skilled technology professionals, allowing a social media platform for technology consultants/freelancers. So UpShot certainly fulfils a niche as Freelancer is too general and full of odd development jobs. So I was intrigued with UpSpot and decided to make a profile.

I started it but stopped, and forgot about it. But the founders of the site are very proactive as the site grows, so one called me up and encouraged me to complete my profile. I started doing that but quickly realised how out of date everything was. Including my profile picture. Indeed, I didn't have a good recent head shot! Trying to decide on profile pictures lead to discovering PhotoFeeler, which is a website that rates profiles photos in the category of business, social and dating. You can pay for votes or vote yourself to earn karma. I got about five photos rated just using karma. None of my pictures scored very highly. The picture with this post was the best of the lot. I think it is good enough for now. I'll have to take some better head shots later. As for UpSpot, I haven't gotten any jobs through there yet. But I am cautiously optimistic.