Comment by mattmanser | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mattmanser | Hacker News Reader

Fantastic idea and looks like it might be nice implementation, just not enough detail on the product for me to sign up and have a play.

No ToS, no privacy statement, nothing. Who are you?

Also:

1. Can I mark my account as hidden until I want people to see it?

2. What will you do with my data? Note, with LinkedIn it's pretty clear what they're going to do from the get-go just because of the nature of the service, with this there's nothing. Are you going to sell my details to recruiters? If so can I opt out? Do I have to pay rent if I do? Note some people won't care (perhaps a lot), this community is a bit of an outlier when it comes to privacy concerns.

3. What domain will I have, can I use my own?

4. Can I change the default style (as the example isn't really to my tastes)

Edit: One last thing, a full size example would be good too. You must have your own?

I'm working on adding relevant policy pages now. Building the site sounded more fun :)

Resumes are hidden until shared with people by giving them the URL. Everyone has a business card, which is public. I'm planning on making it so you can choose to have a resume replace your business card.

Here are mine:

- http://resume.io/jacob - http://resume.io/jacob/glistoisog

Planning on adding custom domains soon! Only the default style for now, but adding more to choose from is certainly something on the roadmap.

I signed up just to poke around. Here's a full page example:

http://resume.io/dangrossman/xisuxools3

There seems to be no style options and no domain/URL options. You just fill in boxes and it generates a random URL after your username as the resume. You can have more than one resume with different random URLs.

There's a LinkedIn import button to grab your list of employers and dates of employment, but it somehow gave me the wrong dates.

I guess I've recently gotten signup fatigue as previously I'd have made a throwaway for it, thanks for the example!

I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman, but then if someone is familiar with the service they could circumvent the tracking URLs.

On the other hand, having a human friendly URL might be nice in the long run for easily finding people. Definitely a tradeoff.

I think resume.io/user/public would do fine, wouldn't it?

Agreed, its a little over-simplistic. Add a button with a FAQ or something and the content can be kept simple on the main page.

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