Product Updates
28 engineering updates documenting what shipped, why it matters, and what is next.
Featured
Major milestones in the Honestify product history.
Launching Honestify
Launching Honestify (2025-12-01): Honestify is now live: an AI profile platform where engineers build interview-ready narratives from real project history—not generic resume templates.
Knowledge Base Launch
Knowledge Base Launch (2026-01-06): The Knowledge Base is live: a private, searchable corpus of your documents, crawled pages, and notes that grounds AI answers in your actual work.
Better AI Answer Quality
Better AI Answer Quality (2026-03-12): Answer quality improvements: stricter grounding, metric extraction from projects, and reduced hedging in interview-style responses.
Interview Question Library
Interview Question Library (2026-01-28): 500+ curated interview questions across behavioral, technical, system design, AI, leadership, and DevOps categories—each with context and Honestify practice hooks.
Public AI Profiles
Public AI Profiles (2026-02-26): Publish a public Honestify profile at honestify.me/u/{username}—SEO-indexed, recruiter-friendly, with configurable visibility toggles.
Search Improvements
Search Improvements (2026-03-27): Global search now covers guides, questions, skills, roles, research, and updates with typo tolerance and ranked relevance.
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Referral Improvements
Referral Improvements (2026-06-15): Referral program updates: clearer rewards, one-click share kits, and deep links that pre-fill invite context.
Invitation System
Invitation System (2026-06-07): Invite colleagues and candidates to Honestify—email invites with tracked acceptance and optional welcome message.
New Landing Page
New Landing Page (2026-05-31): Marketing homepage rebuilt: clearer value prop, social proof, product screenshots, and role-specific entry paths.
Analytics Dashboard
Analytics Dashboard (2026-05-24): Profile analytics for owners: share views, question practice stats, search appearances, and referral conversions—in one dashboard tab.
Dashboard Redesign
Dashboard Redesign (2026-05-16): Dashboard redesigned around three jobs: complete profile, practice interviews, and share with recruiters—less clutter, clearer next actions.
Infrastructure Improvements
Infrastructure Improvements (2026-05-09): Infrastructure upgrades: multi-AZ database, autoscaling API workers, and separated staging/production secrets with rotation policy.
Bug Fix Roundup
Bug Fix Roundup (2026-05-02): February stability release: 23 resolved issues across chat, upload, sharing, and mobile—including three P1 production bugs.
Authentication Improvements
Authentication Improvements (2026-04-25): Auth hardening: OAuth provider refresh, session rotation, MFA enrollment option, and clearer error states on login.
Dark Mode
Dark Mode (2026-04-17): System-aware dark mode across marketing site and dashboard—with persisted preference and accessible contrast ratios.
SEO Improvements
SEO Improvements (2026-04-10): Site-wide SEO pass: sitemap expansion, canonical URLs, structured data on entity pages, and Core Web Vitals alignment.
Responsive UI Improvements
Responsive UI Improvements (2026-04-03): Mobile and tablet layouts refactored across dashboard, chat, and entity pages—touch targets, collapsible nav, and readable typography.
Search Improvements
Search Improvements (2026-03-27): Global search now covers guides, questions, skills, roles, research, and updates with typo tolerance and ranked relevance.
Performance Improvements
Performance Improvements (2026-03-19): Core Web Vitals and API latency improvements: P95 page load down 38%, chat first-token latency down 25%.
Better AI Answer Quality
Better AI Answer Quality (2026-03-12): Answer quality improvements: stricter grounding, metric extraction from projects, and reduced hedging in interview-style responses.
Improved Prompt Engineering
Improved Prompt Engineering (2026-03-05): Internal prompt pipeline refactor: versioned templates, eval harness, and role-specific system prompts reduced off-topic and generic AI outputs.
Public AI Profiles
Public AI Profiles (2026-02-26): Publish a public Honestify profile at honestify.me/u/{username}—SEO-indexed, recruiter-friendly, with configurable visibility toggles.
Profile Sharing
Profile Sharing (2026-02-18): Share your Honestify profile via private links or expiring tokens—control who sees your AI narrative before it goes public.
Research Library Introduced
Research Library Introduced (2026-02-11): Research reports on hiring trends, skills demand, interview patterns, and Honestify platform insights—data-forward, not opinion pieces.
Career Guides Introduced
Career Guides Introduced (2026-02-04): 70+ career guides—roadmaps, interview prep, resume, leadership, and learning—published as actionable handbooks, not blog posts.
Interview Question Library
Interview Question Library (2026-01-28): 500+ curated interview questions across behavioral, technical, system design, AI, leadership, and DevOps categories—each with context and Honestify practice hooks.
Skills Library Introduced
Skills Library Introduced (2026-01-20): The Skills Library catalogs 100+ engineering skills with definitions, interview frequency, related roles, and Honestify learning paths.
Role Pages Introduced
Role Pages Introduced (2026-01-13): Dedicated role pages—for backend, frontend, DevOps, AI, staff, and engineering manager tracks—centralize skills, interview patterns, and Honestify resources per role.
Knowledge Base Launch
Knowledge Base Launch (2026-01-06): The Knowledge Base is live: a private, searchable corpus of your documents, crawled pages, and notes that grounds AI answers in your actual work.
Website Crawling
Website Crawling (2025-12-30): Honestify can ingest public content from your portfolio, blog, or GitHub Pages to enrich your knowledge base without manual copy-paste.
Resume Upload Support
Resume Upload Support (2025-12-22): Resume upload now accepts PDF and DOCX files up to 5 MB, with progress indicators and error messages that explain fixable issues.
AI Chat Improvements
AI Chat Improvements (2025-12-15): The profile AI chat now retains conversation context, cites source projects, and handles follow-up questions without repeating prior answers.
AI Resume Parsing
AI Resume Parsing (2025-12-08): Upload a resume PDF and Honestify extracts structured work history, skills, and project bullets—reducing manual data entry by roughly 70%.
Launching Honestify
Launching Honestify (2025-12-01): Honestify is now live: an AI profile platform where engineers build interview-ready narratives from real project history—not generic resume templates.