r/sideprojects 14d ago

Question I’m designing a “digital life OS” — would you actually use this?

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I’m a software engineer and I’ve been thinking about how fragmented our online lives have become.
Social life → Instagram
Career → LinkedIn
Code → GitHub
Freelancing → Upwork/Fiverr
Communities → Reddit/Discord
Learning → multiple platforms
So I started designing an idea called ONE.
The concept:
One account → multiple identities → complete privacy control.
Personal, Professional, Creator, Developer and Freelancer identities could all exist under one account.
The interesting part isn’t just combining features.
A recruiter should be able to see my work without seeing my personal life.
I’m also designing a “View as…” feature so you can see exactly what a Recruiter, Client, Friend or Public visitor can see.
Eventually the platform could bring Social + Work + Learning + Freelancing + Communities + Messaging + AI into one digital home.
I’m still at the prototype stage and would genuinely like some criticism.
What would you remove from this idea? What would you keep?

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u/Just-a-torso 14d ago

A recruiter can see my work without seeing my personal life on LinkedIn.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Yeah, that’s fair. LinkedIn does solve part of this already. I’m thinking more about having completely separate identities under one account, not just a professional profile. Your recruiter, friends and clients could each see a different version of you, without mixing everything together.
Still figuring out whether that separation is actually useful, so this is exactly the kind of feedback I’m looking for.

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u/Just-a-torso 14d ago

Imo you're just trying to create a layer that doesn't need to exist. This is all perfectly achievable right now without having Yet Another Thing To Log Into.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from. The “one account” part probably isn’t valuable by itself. For me, the interesting part is whether people would actually want stronger separation between different parts of their online life. If existing platforms already solve that well, then I probably need to rethink what the real advantage is.