Show HN: Createresu.me – Client-Side PDF Resume Maker

(createresu.me)

6 points | by chandi 1544 days ago

3 comments

  • the_resistence 1542 days ago
    Kudos for an all-around outstanding effort. Really beautiful. One thing to think about, from a professional perspective, is the million dollar problem for all these resume editors--providing an MS Word version. I prefer to do my reports generation in rmarkdown/latex but am forced to use MS Word for my resume clients. There are word templates you can use with rmarkdown and markdown (pandoc) but they take time to setup.

    As a noob on Gatsby, I really look forward to studying this code!

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  • chandi 1544 days ago
    Hi author here,

    I made this project because although there are a lot of resume makers online, they generally require giving your data to somebody.

    This project runs completely client side so no personal data is collected (also no ads or tracking). Resumes can also be re uploaded to continue editing.

    Code is here: https://github.com/sschandi/create-resume/

    • udayrddy 1543 days ago
      Hi Chandi,

      The design is slick, I like it. I run https://notyce.me which I believe might complement your app or vice-versa. If you feel the collaboration can make things better, can you drop me an email mentioned on my profile. Thanks

  • bbody 1543 days ago
    Wow this design is amazing!

    Have you thought about allowed uploading of JSON Resume (https://jsonresume.org/) format?

    • chandi 1541 days ago
      Thanks, it would be possible to allow uploading a JSON resume, but unfortunately it wouldn't be easy to allow downloading back to JSON Resume format, because I structured the project as more generic (users can have any number of skills, lists, text, ect.) vs JSON Resume scheme being very concrete.

      Will look into adding the uploader part though.