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My little genius friend & I are working on a side project currently but it is starting to look quite viable. In a nutshell it takes any word or PDF document, s
by Peroni 15y ago
My little genius friend & I are working on a side project currently but it is starting to look quite viable.
In a nutshell it takes any word or PDF document, strips all the formatting and repopulates a new word document with predefined fonts, layout etc. Sounds simple & basic? That's the point. We're near completion and once we launch it will be a simple service that can have a significant impact on the industry I currently work in.
- olavk 15y agoThat is a great idea.
- Peroni 15y agoThanks! We think so too. Always keen to hear other applications for the service though. I haven't had sufficient time to investigate how relevant it may be to other industries but I know there will be more significant applications other than our current focus.
- semanticist 15y agoThis is a common feature in CRM software for the recruitment industry, where they want to rewrite people's CVs into the agency's 'house standard' (and remove the candidate's contact details, too). If your version performs better than what some of the existing players are using, you might be able to OEM/white label it for them.
- Peroni 15y agoThe current CRM features available are terrible. The other issue is that they generally come bundled with a CRM that companies are paying in excess of 7 figures for. We have a stand alone product that is efficient and affordable. A lot of recruitment companies, at least here in the UK, pay significant annual salaries to an 'admin' person to sit and format CV's all day long. Why pay them £25k a year to execute a task that takes them about 20 minutes when you could pay us about 70-80% less (pricing point yet to be determined) for a product that executes the task instantly?
- semanticist 15y agoYour competitors in that market are people like Daxtra (my former employer) who do CV parsing and extraction. They also do CV reformatting, and because they've got structured data to work with can even entirely recreate a new CV based on the candidate's data. If you want to move into that market as a stand-alone reformatting product, you'd need to integrate with the range of CRMs in use (Adapt, EZAccess, Itris, etc - some of these have CV reformatting built in, too). This is a market where they want it all to 'just work', and you'll end up dealing with some really really demanding people. And you also risk an established player deciding to extract out their reformatting tool as a stand-alone product and leveraging their existing sales network to block you. Which is why I was suggesting OEMing it to CRM developers, which would let you side-step companies like Daxtra. If the recruitment agency isn't doing enough business to afford to get Adapt or whatever, then they're either just starting up (and will drop you for an integrated solution as they grow) or about to fail. Edit: just looked at your profile, and I'm pretty sure you'll know all about Daxtra. :o) If Volt aren't using it already, ask your account manage for a demo of reformatter, and keep in mind that Daxtra could turn that into a stand-alone SaaS offering pretty easily.
- joeconway 15y agoAs a Kindle owner, I find this product very enticing
- troels 15y agoSo, readability for pdfs?
- Peroni 15y agoSort of. PDF's, docs, etc.
- dstein 15y agoSounds cool, but how will you make money?
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