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Thanks for the feedback! We are hoping to make it easier for people to be able to show their personality and passions and to tailor their job applications to each opportunity by making it quick and easy to create a narrative as to why they'd be great for the job, backed up with actual evidence that you can flick through, rather than just a resume-as-a-service. We see it more as cover-letter replacement than a resume replacement to that effect (the idea is you'd attach your resume to this).

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> with actual evidence that you can flick through

"flick" makes me think you're seeing this in a mobile context.

I'd be curious to hear more on the market research you did that suggested pursuing a causal, mobile model for consumption of job applicants' materials.

We haven't decided to specifically focus on mobile, although one neat use case we had in mind was that an Accredible narrative might be a great thing to take into an in-person interview with you on a mobile or tablet and then using that to illustrate the points that you'd like to make once they ask you to elaborate on your skills, projects, experience and interest. Our primary intended use case however is more on desktop-focused job applications.

The UX refinement sessions for that tablet use case would be crazy fun. The experience would have to be silk if I were going to hinge my new-hire interview on putting it in front of an employer, with no experience on the app, and let them self-direct the exploration. I'd look forward to see how that turned out.

And my latent tech writer OCD-ness compels me to suggest dropping "flick" from your vocabulary in favor of

  [...] with actual evidence that you can interact with.

Kudos for the cover letter replacement. Maybe you could state it clearer on the website?

Thanks - we are still trying to figure out the best way to describe this. We'll work on updating the copy to better reflect that :)

Agreed, it definitely makes more sense to me if you think of it as a cover letter replacement.

I still think, however, that as a potential employer I would have a hard time getting over the bias of thinking "oh, he just used a tool to generate this." Not sure how you could escape that outside of allowing users to heavily customize the appearance and experience, as well as self-host the end product and remove any links or references back to Accredible.

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