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Show HN: A.I. Resume builder for normal people

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I like the idea. At this stage, it appears to just make a few grammatical suggestions. Have you found much research into how much resumes differ on an industry-by-industry basis, profession-by-profession basis and at differing levels of seniority? You could ask users what job title or career path they're aiming for, and offer suggestions to help users tailor their resume accordingly. With a repository of resumes, you could start to offer suggestions such as:

- "90% of people who have held a Project Manager position use 'Managing' to describe at least one of their skills"

- "It is rare for people whose job title includes 'Senior' to use 'Supported' to describe their previous experience"

A few observations on the landing page:

- No visual cue indicated that I needed to scroll down the landing page to see "How it works".

- If this product is "Never pay anything", why do I need to sign in? My preference as a user would be the way https://draw.io works with using Offline Storage, and optional sign-in or "cloud storage" options.

- It isn't clear whether you receive and/or store any data that users enter, and what you do with it.

This is great feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time to write it.

1. RE: position specific help. This is definitely a goal. I want to use the job posting you are applying for and leverage that to guide you throughout the process. And really I want to make the "A.I." much more intelligent over time.

2. RE: Visual cue on landing page. Easy fix. Will push that out later today.

3. RE: why sign up if free. An earlier prototype actually didn't have any sort of signup but proved too limited or difficult when in came to sharing, revising your resumes, or owning multiple resumes. It is all for the users benefit. You should be creating multiple resumes. You should be improving your resumes over time. Resumes are living breathing documents that evolve as you do. A nice bonus of having accounts now is resumes can be shared via URL to be viewed.

3.b RE: free. I feel it is unethical to charge people money to help them get out of unemployment or underemployment. This is a project for me to give back to society since so much of my paid work is automating jobs away. Helping people break the cycle of underemployment is important to me. It is, in some ways, more devastating than unemployment.

4. RE: storage and usage. The data is stored in a PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will try to make this more clear. I use the data to make the service better (better AI, better design, better guides, etc). Seeing how people write their resume using the tool helps me write better guiding AI so the user gets a better resume at the end.

Again, thank you so much for writing your feedback. The more feedback I can get the better I can help people get the resume they need to break the cycle.

-Nick

Building this as a way to help unemployed and underemployed folks find better jobs. I welcome any feedback or ideas to make the goal more achievable.

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