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JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder
- abossy 17y agoDane and Andrew: Congrats on launching!
- JimEngland 17y agoI've been waiting for a real competitor to VisualCV to show up, and shown up it has. Congrats on the launch!
- leif 17y agoass-kickingly delicious way to go fellas we should celebrate over beers when you're done dealing with all the traffic
- conorgil145 17y agoI just checked out the site and it truly impressive. Everything looks sharp and I like the clean design. Everything is easy to use and I can go in and change the CSS later if I want to. I started filling out some information to get a feel and I really liked it! I tried to sign up, but there is no way to register! Did I miss something there?
- leif 17y agoyou register when you're ready to save your résumé
- leif 17y ago(this means click the floppy disk)
- zackattack 17y agoYou may want to make it more obvious that you registering/saving is actually creating an account. Also, please introduce an auto-save feature.. it would have been very annoying if it didn't save properly! In fact, I was thinking, while using the product, "I am going to be so annoyed if it doesn't save properly!" - That makes for bad customer experience :)
- conorgil145 17y agoI tried to save last night and it simply said that I had a wrong username/password combo. The only action available was printing to pdf form. I just tried again and it did allow me to register though. Was something changed or maybe I missed something late last night.... I have been meaning to update my resume for a while now and this is the perfect tool to launch me into action.
- babyshake 17y agoIs there a Posterous or something? The twitter account is private...how are we supposed to learn about updates?
- mattmaroon 17y agoThis seems pretty cool. I actually had an idea for almost exactly this. The revenue model writes itself too. Thousands of people pay resume professionals for editing help every day. JobSpice could have a third party network of resume pros ready to help, and take a cut of the payments. So it's free to write your awesome looking resume, and for a reasonable fee it's trivial to have a resume doctor look it over.
- markm 17y agoThe consumer business model that you described is a small part of JobSpice's potential. The goldmine comes from getting companies to use JobSpice to recruit new hires. All individuals want to create beautiful resumes but once the resume is created there's no telling where the individual goes with said resume. JobSpice has the resume meta-data at its finger tips. The logical next step would be to get companies to offer jobs to JobSpice's users.
- adityakothadiya 17y agoThis idea is not new, but their implementation is new. Now I believe that some web ideas can differentiate truly based on "usability". Same market, many competitors, but if you have killer usability, then you've a chance to win.
- Ras_ 17y agoNot much different from our last LaunchBox Digital -funded venture Razume.com. We had nice "review layers" as our unique feature. In effect, community reviewed resumes. This space is really hard. Revenue model certainly does not write itself, when there's dozens of similar free services around. We tried by pushing to SaaS to B2B (Career Centers), but ultimately didn't get the funding which we would've needed to bring support & sales to acceptable level for big players such as universities. If you're interested in our venture's post mortem, watch this interview: http://www.junloayza.com/interviews/how-to-transition-form-the-corporate-world-to-the-startup-life-ryan-geist-interview/ http://www.junloayza.com/interviews/how-to-transition-form-t...
- TrevorJ 17y agoWell done. I like this a lot.
- modoc 17y agoI think a Word export would be key here. Many large firms and recruiting agencies require you to provide Word format resumes and have large internal systems and processes based on Word documents.
- amccollum 17y agoYeah, we'd obviously love to have this, but the Word formatting engine is horrendous... just try taking any html document and importing it into Word and see what it looks like. Hopefully, we can eventually replace those large internal systems that process Word documents with real tools that can search and categorize the structured data.
- zck 17y agoYou could have some sort of "degraded" resume version in .rtf. It seems like .rtf is decent, but doesn't have as much customization as a word document. Of course, I could be wrong. It's not the best solution, but it is something that can be passed around from person to person, edited, and even re-imported with much less fuss than trying to use a Word document. However, any time someone does that, that's a part of the process that isn't taking place on JobSpice.
- jimbokun 17y ago"However, any time someone does that, that's a part of the process that isn't taking place on JobSpice." This is the real reason not to offer Word export. They can try to convince HR departments to use JobSpice for their resume filtering and searching needs, instead of just a place to download resumes into their internal systems and never returning to use other services.
- modoc 17y agoA noble goal, but it seems very unlikely. Shifting Fortune 1000 companies or large recruiting firms to use a whole new system would be an amazingly unlikely and long-time framed change. Best of luck if that's your goal though, it would be an improvement. Until then though, lack of Word export is a liability for people who build their resumes on your site.
- cwilson 17y agoGotta give you some Hacker News love as well. Congrats on launching dudes, well done.
- nopassrecover 17y agoIs there any way to preview how stuff looks without having to manually enter data first? Just so I can get a feel with some test data?
- amccollum 17y agoYou can look browse the available styles in the Styles tab.
- nopassrecover 17y agoYeah when I tried that it was blank unless I had already entered my personal data.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoI Love It! Maybe its not as infinitely customizeable as microsoft word, but I did in 10 minutes what took over an hour of painful moving crap around in word. Ugh HTML/CSS is just so much easier to style. Maybe I should just learn latex and get my problems over with.
- smokinn 17y agoI guess this doesn't work for the majority of the population but I have a simple nice looking LaTeX template for my CV. Anytime I need to update it it's usually a question of a few minutes tops. It might've taken a bit longer for the initial setup but over time I'm sure I've saved way more time compared to fighting Word every time I want to update it. I highly recommend it.
- prpon 17y agoI started thinking how hard can it be to build a web resume? But your implementation bowled me over. Kudos guys. Great job. I would suggest to make it obvious that users have a URL that they can share. Give suggestions during signup for their preferred web address. eg: http://jobspice.com/firstname http://jobspice.com/firstname Goodluck to you.
- herf 17y agoGreat idea, and the editor looks nice! Really want them to hire a designer to do some good templates...you could rock PDF output a lot.
- zck 17y agoI took some time and put my .doc resume into LaTeX, figuring that with judicious use of functions, I could easily change styles and formatting. I used pdfLaTeX to output to pdf. Of course now, very few job boards take a .pdf, and of course, no recruiters do. It's a very frustrating process, made worse by the knowledge that changing my format to something more useful for me now requires me to keep two resumes, both the .pdf and the .doc versions.
- makmanalp 17y agoGood job, looks like something linkedin should have had ages ago.
- happymonkey00 17y agoI liked the design. But i wonder how this is any different from emurse.com?
- noaharc 17y agoI think execution (i.e. quality of design, ease of use, pricing -- if any, etc.) is what matters on this one, so we'll see how they compare as JobSpice matures. Emurse is really handy, though. I've used it before!
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- zackattack 17y agoCongratulations on launching. I filled out my resume, and it only took about ten minutes, which is awesome. I was actually about to hire a designer from Craigslist to spice up my resume (no joke, I've been emailing people today) so this is a nice synchronicity. Unfortunately, some small formatting bugs make this completely unusable. My username is "zack" if you want to check it out. Otherwise, an excellent product. I would like to have been able to add details to the Achievements section. What's the deal with the /static/{js|css}/combined.{hash} stuff? Is that part of a home-brewed deployment solution?
- dshah 17y agoCongrats on the launch! Love the app, and like how you just "jump right in". However, you might want to have some minimal information about the company/team (even if it's just a link from the bottom right corner). That way, if some fancy VC wants to give you a big check, they know where to reach you.
- jessor 17y agonice idea. awesome implementation, straight forward yet good looking. best of luck!
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- zaph0d 17y agoIs JobSpice written in Python? If yes, are you using any framework?
- sh1mmer 17y agoLack of "register" totally threw me. Especially when I clicked save and there was only one password field, and no confirm. That's never a good idea.
- c00p3r 17y agoVery smart way to create (and then resale) a big HR database. It also should be integrated with HN, like standard button/link in user's profile.
- I_got_fifty 17y agomaaan, I just started doing research into doing something like that... crap.
- conorgil145 17y agoI think next to the button that says "Login/Logout" it might be nice to have a simple welcome message that says "Welcome, <username>" just to reassure users that they are in fact logged in. I didn't realize I was still logged in until I noticed the button said "Logout".
- brown9-2 17y agoI'm really digging this, nice work! Just one question/issue: when browsing styles in Chrome, one of the styles seems to be cut off by the column divider, and only shows as "Impossible I...".
- mshafrir 17y agoLooks great. Is there a way to make the Experience section details project-based in addition to company-based?
- imdane 17y agoYou can use the "custom" section to add subheadings -- which could be projects
- conorgil145 17y agoIs there a link on the site or an email account where we can leave customer comments/suggestions?