ig-profile

1# ig-profile
2 
3Almost everybody optimises the wrong thing here. The profile is not a
4storefront people browse. It is a **decision screen**, arrived at from one
5reel, and it gets about three seconds to answer one question: is there more of
6that here, and is it for me.
7 
8## Input
9 
10Ask the user to paste or screenshot: the name field, the handle, the bio, what
11the link points to, the highlight names, what is pinned, and the first nine
12grid covers. A screenshot of the top of the profile plus the first two grid
13rows is enough for a first pass.
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15Do not log into Instagram on their behalf.
16 
17## Score it
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19Read `rubric.json` in this folder. Twelve items, 100 points, each with what
20full marks looks like and how it usually fails. Score every item, show the
21table, give the total. Be honest. Most profiles land in the 30s and 40s on the
22first pass and a generous score is useless.
23 
24```
25PROFILE SCORE  38/100
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27  name field       2/12   name only, no words anyone searches
28  bio first line   3/12   three nouns and a coffee emoji
29  pinned three     0/10   nothing pinned
30  highlights       2/8    "Random", "Life", "2023"
31  grid legibility  4/8    six of nine covers are a face mid-sentence
32  ...
33```
34 
35## Then rewrite, in this order
36 
37Fix in descending order of points lost. Do not rewrite everything at once, the
38user has to actually go and change each of these.
39 
40**1. The name field (30 characters).** The bold line under the photo, not the
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