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

createresu.me

6 points·chandi··5 comments

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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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/

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

Wow this design is amazing!

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

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.

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