LinkedIn for trades: does it exist?

Who already tried this

Who already tried this
Product	Status	Since	How it differs	Source
Trade Houndstradehounds.com	Live	Unknown	A social plus commerce app for tradespeople. Homepages says half a million skilled trades, and 500K+ on the signup line.	Trade Hounds home3
TradesLinkgettradeslink.com	Live	Unknown	A professional network that connects employers and skilled tradespeople.	TradesLink - The Professional Network for Tradespeople4
WorkHandsworkhands.com	Live	Unknown	Apprenticeship tracking software in 2026, not a public professional graph. Adjacent, not counted as a match.	WorkHands home5

Product: Trade Houndstradehounds.com
Status: Live
Since: Unknown
How it differs: A social plus commerce app for tradespeople. Homepages says half a million skilled trades, and 500K+ on the signup line.
Source: Trade Hounds home3

Product: TradesLinkgettradeslink.com
Status: Live
Since: Unknown
How it differs: A professional network that connects employers and skilled tradespeople.
Source: TradesLink - The Professional Network for Tradespeople4

Product: WorkHandsworkhands.com
Status: Live
Since: Unknown
How it differs: Apprenticeship tracking software in 2026, not a public professional graph. Adjacent, not counted as a match.
Source: WorkHands home5

What LinkedIn does well

LinkedIn has more than 1 billion 6 members in more than 200 6 countries. Its pressroom lists more than 17,000 7 full-time employees and 36 7 languages.

A profile, a feed, and connections built for desk careers 6.

What changes for trades

Electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, welders, carpenters, and contractors. Trade Hounds calls itself America's largest skilled trades community and asks people to join over 500 thousand 3 tradespeople.

They need a place to show finished work, not only a resume. Trade Hounds is built around jobsite photos, estimates, and material quotes 3.

What's the crossover

From LinkedInFrom LinkedIn: profiles, a feed, and a way to get hired 6.

From tradesFrom the market: photos of finished work, plus estimates and invoices 3.

A trades graph already exists. A new app would need a narrower job, such as a trade or a city Trade Hounds does not serve 3.

Demand check

Publish a signup page for a trade in a metro and share it at a union hall or supply house you can reach. Count signups against visits.

Build plan

Start: let licensed electricians in a city post jobsite photos and follow each other.
Next: add a simple profile with a license number and a photo grid.
Then: add a job post from a contractor in that city.
After that: invite the signup list and watch whether people post another job.

Copy the build prompt

Build a small web app for skilled tradespeople. Each member gets a profile with a license field and a photo grid of finished work. Members follow each other and see a feed of new photos. A contractor can post a job. Store members, photos, follows and jobs in a database. Use plain, accessible HTML.

Risks and unknowns

Trade Hounds already claims over 500 thousand 3 tradespeople.
TradesLink already sells a professional network for tradespeople 4.
A public jobsite photo can leak a customer's address. That privacy risk is unreviewed.

Questions

Is there a LinkedIn for trades?

Yes. Trade Hounds 3 and TradesLink 4 both market a professional network for tradespeople. Autocomplete for linkedin for trades includes is there a linkedin for trades 2.

How large is Trade Hounds?

Its home page calls itself America's largest skilled trades community and says join over 500 thousand 3 tradespeople. It also says half 3 a million 3 skilled trades show up on the platform.

Sources

1. The score runs to 100. Evidence is 3 for each fetched fact, capped at 25. Mechanism fit is 5 for each counted mechanism, capped at 20. Demand is 4 for each counted signal, capped at 20. Openness starts at 20 and loses 5 for each verified direct match, and it stops at 0. Build ease starts at 15 and loses 5 for each sourced hard requirement, and it stops at 0, and only when that review is recorded. A page under 50, and any thin page, is left out of the index. Weights are this site's rule, recorded in the project specification on 19 Oct 2026. A judgment step has to agree when the two parents are checked in both orders.
2. Google autocomplete for "linkedin for trades". Fetched Oct 19, 2026. Eight suggestions, including linkedin for tradespeople and is there a linkedin for trades. Recorded 2026-10-19.
3. Trade Hounds home. Live. America's largest skilled trades community. Half a million skilled trades. Join 500K+ tradespeople, free on iPhone and Android. Social plus estimates, invoices, and material quotes. Curl returned an empty shell; the same URL was fetched as rendered text. Recorded 2026-10-19.
4. TradesLink - The Professional Network for Tradespeople. Live. Connects employers and skilled tradespeople. Social platform built only for trades. Recorded 2026-10-19.
5. WorkHands home. Live in 2026 as apprenticeship tracking software, not a public LinkedIn-style graph. Adjacent, not counted as a match. Recorded 2026-10-19.
6. About LinkedIn. More than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories. Recorded 2026-10-19.
7. LinkedIn Pressroom: About Us. More than 17,000 full-time employees. Available in 36 languages. Offices in more than 36 cities. Community of +1.3B members. Recorded 2026-10-19.
8. Google autocomplete for "linkedin for tradespeople". Fetched Oct 19, 2026. Three suggestions, including linkedin for tradespeople. Recorded 2026-10-19.
9. The 5 in the Thursday list is the issue length, not a count of pages on this site. Recorded in the project brief on 18 Oct 2026.

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