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by robeastham 16y ago
Martin is right, but I did want some feedback on the first draft of my résumé too. I agree my skills list does look bad. Just listing a selection of gems and mentioning a few website does not a skill set make. I'll take a look today and try
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by robeastham 16y ago
Apologies for the link bait nature of the title. I'm a bit new to the business of self promotion. Perhaps I sometimes get carried away when dreaming up ways to get Mighty CV noticed. Agreed - skills list looks lame. Time to refactor.
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by robeastham 16y ago
If any of you guys actually go and sign up for a Mighty CV I must apologise if you encounter a fail whale when you try to view your résumé. This is most likely to happen if you use the LinkedIn importer to create your résumé. My number one
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Rate my résumé, I think it's quite good.(robeastham.mightycv.com)
22 points by robeastham 16y ago|21 comments
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by robeastham 16y ago
I sort of figured this when building Mighty CV. It's a résumé building app aimed at hackers that I've just launched. As Jason's point illustrates, I think what's most useful to potential employers is to be able to see a snapshot of activity
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by robeastham 16y ago
I agree the original poster doesn't really seem to get what LinkedIn is for. It sounds like he might be looking for something like the app I just launched about an hour ago after 2 months working on getting it to MVP stage. It does have a n
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by robeastham 16y ago
That's exactly what I'm banking on with the new app I'm developing http://www.mightycv.com . I needed a new résumé and didn't like the more generic builders I found out their. I wanted a résumé builder that worked for hackers and integrate
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Heroku's current network issues and Engine Yards tweets. Hmmmm...
1 points by robeastham 16y ago|1 comments
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by robeastham 16y ago
I suspect this guy heard 'You can't do that' quite a few times before doing this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12773427
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by robeastham 16y ago
I think the first 10k a month app will inevitably be the hardest, but like Justin says it'll be a lot easier than becoming the next Facebook or Google. Most people chase/fantasize about being the next Google because they think it will buy t
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by robeastham 16y ago
My new résumé app/service aimed at hackers has integration with github, hacker news and stackoverflow. You can see at a glance what people have been up to on these sites by looking in the sidebar of any Mighty CV powered résumé. Though inte
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by robeastham 16y ago
This is a little similar to my new app/startup: http://www.mightycv.com Mighty CV is a little more free form and geared towards producing a hacker centric traditional style résumé and so not quite the same as profile.io. Just signed up fo
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by robeastham 16y ago
The Pragmatic Bookshelf has a fantastic book that goes into some detail about how your brain might be working in these situations. Often sleeping on a problem and letting your subconscious do some of the work is the best policy. Check the b
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Mighty CV - refactor your résumé [50 invites available](blog.mightycv.com)
1 points by robeastham 16y ago|1 comments
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by robeastham 16y ago
A personal recommendation from Patrick or someone else as high profile here on HN must be like gold dust in the early stages. It's just the sort of recommendation and publicity that I'd love to get for my new startup when I launch the priva
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by robeastham 16y ago
I'm guessing the downvotes are because I've crossed the line I was worried about in this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287643 Apologies, I really didn't want to come across as being spammy.
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by robeastham 16y ago
I whole heartedly agree with this, it also really felt like the post author was describing a really specific situation. Perhaps one where he was that middle class guy and the other guy was someone who just got the raise he wanted. I don't k
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by robeastham 16y ago
This post is genius I'm off out to buy a pack of Maltesers right now - I hate M&Ms. It made me think of this picture too: http://londonleisureandpleasure.blogspot.com/2011/02/you-hav... A friend of mine sent it to me a while back but
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by robeastham 16y ago
Thanks! I've made a few changes now, hoping that they have improved things.
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by robeastham 16y ago
Thanks for all the great advice so far, I've removed the centred text as suggested which I think is an improvement. Instead of running a time limited offer of one year free service I've decided not to make the offer time limited and instead
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Ask HN: Advice on improving my sign-up page(blog.mightycv.com)
2 points by robeastham 16y ago|1 comments
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by robeastham 16y ago
Chile perhaps? Check out this government sponsored initiative: http://www.startupchile.org/ Seems like the Ministry of Economy is really serious about attracting founders from outside Chile. Each founder gets a $40,000 dollar grant for a
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by robeastham 16y ago
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek reference to this thread. It's not a calculation performed by Mighty CV. In the résumé builder that text equates to a free form text input called Professional Title. You can write whatever you like in there
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by robeastham 16y ago
You just gave me a eureka moment. I really like how simple and clear your homepage is. It instantly made me realise what I am doing wrong with the homepage of http://www.mightycv.com which is my first startup. So I just wanted to say than
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The quest for 1000 beta subscribers(blog.mightycv.com)
1 points by robeastham 16y ago|0 comments
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Friday night beta signup: 1 year free at MightyCV(mightycv.com)
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by robeastham 16y ago
P.S. This relates to my new app/startup Mighty CV. So if you'd like to refactor your résumé you might be interested in signing up at: http://www.mightycv.com/
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Ask HN: Best way to attract private beta users?
1 points by robeastham 16y ago|2 comments
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by robeastham 16y ago
Do you think I should perhaps switch the request box to the bottom of the page? This way the 'Benefits' would appear first? This would push the sign-up box below the fold but I guess this might be better if it appeared to you like I was beg
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by robeastham 16y ago
Thought I'd provide a link to an example of a comment I made yesterday that mentioned Mighty CV: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2286295 This comment was part of the discussion for the HN submission 'Everyone thinks they're hiring the

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