I build small tools. The latest one roasts LinkedIn profiles, and building it meant feeding it the worst profile copy I could find — starting with patterns from my own.
Here's the kind of thing it produces, aimed at the generic profile we've all seen (and, if we're honest, written):
"Your headline says 'Results-driven professional passionate about driving results.' So you drive results, and you're driven by them. That's not a headline, that's a traffic circle."
Brutal, but pointed at something real: words so vague they could belong to anyone, so they describe no one. Developers do this too — "passionate software engineer crafting scalable solutions" says exactly as much as the traffic circle does.
The tool is GrillMyProfile. The roast is free at grillmyprofile.com, and you get a score out of 100 with it. Mine came back at 32 the first time I ran it. It stung. It was also right, which is the entire design goal: a polite checklist never made anyone rewrite a headline they'd ignored for three years.
If your profile is due for an honest read, go get yours.
