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Hey just a free idea if anyone want to build it, I think a web app that generated stylish resumes automatically from your LinkedIn profile would be great. It could make watermarked ones for free preview and then charge you a few bucks if you wanted to download a real one.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Well, my resume's a bit out of date, but here's my linkedin.."

Also, if you are LinkedIn, you could do this.

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This exists.

from linked in: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/

There is another service (3rd party) that does this, but I can't recall the URL...

Looks like they may have just ripped off other designs:

http://sampleresumetemplate.net/

The resume image, but not the template.

I had this exact same idea few months ago but LinkedIn already has a nice resume generator:

http://resume.linkedinlabs.com

If I had a quarter for every time I had an idea that was already done...

You, me, and everyone else on HN would be a millionaire.

Just because someone has an idea before you doesn't mean your idea is not worth pursuing. Execution is sometimes more important than being big or first.

http://zerply.com/ does something very close to this.

>Also, if you are LinkedIn, you could do this.

I think they already do?

Not stylish ones. You can generate a PDF resume off of your linked in profile, but really it's not very good.

http://vizualize.me/ and http://re.vu/ both do this.

I was a TechStars finalist last year and there was another finalist at our Vegas interviews who did exactly that. Can't recall the name, sorry.

I am actually working on this exact idea, except I plan on making the entire thing free.

I as well did this last year, at http://resumatic.net/

Unfortunately, I don't have the same talent for design.

You can already do this at kinzaa.com.

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