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Show HN: Create a beautiful website, portfolio and resume

19 points by gobienan 6y ago

gobienan 6y ago
Hey HackerNews, it's been a while! Resoume is a platform where you can create a beautiful website, portfolio and resume for your next job interview. It is also the biggest project I worked on as a solo frontend developer with joy, love, sweat and tears I have been working on for a bit over a year now. You may know the last post from me (or not). It started as a resume builder but the bigger picture I had in mind was a platform to build your online presence for the job search. Here are some of the new features: - 14 New Beautifully Designed Templates - A Personal Website Builder - Analytics For Your Online Applications And Website - Job Board - CNAME and A Record Support - White-Label Solution For Companies I love to work on Resoume and I think you can tell by just looking at it. Recently I was thinking if it might make sense to offer an API where other people/businesses could use Resoume to create resumes. Would love to hear your thoughts :)
subpixel 6y ago
If this product is really good the ‘advertising’ should be the founder’s profile, or a gallery of several interesting profiles (fully functioning, not resume screenshots). Nothing else. Your current marketing site gives me zero experience of your product. Which is a marketing site!
- friendofafriend 6y ago
  Doesn't the Templates page do just that? https://www.resoume.com/templates https://www.resoume.com/templates
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- gobienan 6y ago
  I am also a bit confused and might need a bit more details. What do you mean by founders profile?
- gdubs 6y ago
  Came to say something very similar. While having a prominent call to action button makes sense, the call to action is basically ALL I see when I land on an iPhone. There’s 0 chance I will click a button without some enticement as to what the service is about. And given that it’s a site aimed at helping you sell yourself or your work to people, then the first thing we would want to see is a very compelling sales pitch. E.g., make the site a resume for itself. “See how beautifully this site is being sold to you? Imagine doing that for yourself / your stuff!”
  - gobienan 6y ago
    That's a good point, I guess no one just jumps to sign up. Maybe a good CTA would be -> check out the templates.
emptysongglass 6y ago
I just send employers to my GitHub profile which I've written as a CV.
- gobienan 6y ago
  That also does the trick! However, not everyone knows how to create a GitHub profile. And if you are not a developer, it might be a bit weird to send a GitHub profile :D
CherishSantoshi 5y ago
This is great. Are you also giving hosting?

19 points by gobienan 6y ago

Hey HackerNews, it's been a while! Resoume is a platform where you can create a beautiful website, portfolio and resume for your next job interview. It is also the biggest project I worked on as a solo frontend developer with joy, love, sweat and tears I have been working on for a bit over a year now. You may know the last post from me (or not). It started as a resume builder but the bigger picture I had in mind was a platform to build your online presence for the job search. Here are some of the new features: - 14 New Beautifully Designed Templates - A Personal Website Builder - Analytics For Your Online Applications And Website - Job Board - CNAME and A Record Support - White-Label Solution For Companies I love to work on Resoume and I think you can tell by just looking at it. Recently I was thinking if it might make sense to offer an API where other people/businesses could use Resoume to create resumes. Would love to hear your thoughts :)

subpixel 6y ago

If this product is really good the ‘advertising’ should be the founder’s profile, or a gallery of several interesting profiles (fully functioning, not resume screenshots). Nothing else. Your current marketing site gives me zero experience of your product. Which is a marketing site!

friendofafriend 6y ago
Doesn't the Templates page do just that? https://www.resoume.com/templates https://www.resoume.com/templates
- deleted 6y ago
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gobienan 6y ago
I am also a bit confused and might need a bit more details. What do you mean by founders profile?
gdubs 6y ago
Came to say something very similar. While having a prominent call to action button makes sense, the call to action is basically ALL I see when I land on an iPhone. There’s 0 chance I will click a button without some enticement as to what the service is about. And given that it’s a site aimed at helping you sell yourself or your work to people, then the first thing we would want to see is a very compelling sales pitch. E.g., make the site a resume for itself. “See how beautifully this site is being sold to you? Imagine doing that for yourself / your stuff!”
- gobienan 6y ago
  That's a good point, I guess no one just jumps to sign up. Maybe a good CTA would be -> check out the templates.

emptysongglass 6y ago

I just send employers to my GitHub profile which I've written as a CV.

gobienan 6y ago
That also does the trick! However, not everyone knows how to create a GitHub profile. And if you are not a developer, it might be a bit weird to send a GitHub profile :D

CherishSantoshi 5y ago

This is great. Are you also giving hosting?