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It reminded me of Cory from Strangeparts, he had a concussion and seems to be handling it quite well, even recovering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y. Hope it can help you somehow.
Hope you best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue.
It has been pretty fascinating for me in comparison to al the digital product stuff I'm used to.
Once I decided I was going to kill the project, I removed the option to become a paying customer to not get more, waited for the last of my paying customers period to finish (it was a yearly subscription). And released an update that made the app work strictly locally, user data does not reach my server (edit: there is no server anymore) and stays in the user's browser (it works like that now).
Kept the data for a couple of weeks in case anyone wanted to recover it to help them use it with in the new "local" version, but enventually no one did, so finally I deleted my db. So right now I have no access whatsoever to that data.
I learned so many things and was such a fruitful ride that for me it is far from a failure. But on the business side, definetly a complete failure!
Even wrote a little post mortem at the time: https://vilva.io/blog/1-year-of-building-reflections.
Lesson learned: Talk to your users. Don't neglect the business/marketing side, specially if you are a techie who loves to code. Talk to your users. It is a marathon run, forget about the overnight millionare launchs, the launch is the "easy" part, growing steady from there is the real challenge. Talk to your users!!
https://www.xataka.com/otros/soy-ciego-nacimiento-asi-mi-tra...
He often talks at conferences about his situation and setup, so if you understand spanish you might be able to find quite a lot on this. Also it might be worth a shot contacting him for more info.
Best of luck with your new adventure.
Only explicitily asks for storage access to set a flag when the extension is enabled and to save the hourly rate.
It does have access to execute the code on amazon too, which basically is reading info from html and inject another html node.
Right now it only supports Amazon since it is the site I use the most, but it is pretty trivial to add more shops.
BTW, I just searched for myself on the Chrome Store and found a surprisingly identical extension O_o. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-is-money/oopp... it seems it's more mature than mine, so here you have another option!
Surely not as easy to parse as something done explicitly for that, but hopefully good enough.
Such good insights in your post! thanks for sharing your past experience.
Actually your same experience is what took me to make this, the pain of having to open Illustrator to edit the resume once again. Atleast for the next time I got this. And thanks for the kind words :)
Did you find out why? layout, text style? they need a specific template?
Open source represents open source contributions (aka repos).
Well that looks cool and apparently its spot on!
Actually at first it was very evident $30/year, but I removed it in the last minute because it seemed like a suscription (which is not). Definetly going to make that thing stand out more.
I designed the templates taking inspiration on what friends showed me, what found online as well as my previous resumes.
To be completely honest its the first time I see that website! But I can see how the black sidebar one looks similar, but they all use pretty common heavily used design patterns.
On the second argument, I assume recruiters are seeing tons of resumes presented in the same package daily. I don't think this will affect negatively to the applicants. Hopefully this starts becoming a problem and I get to work and design 100 more templates for variety :)
No, I'm not concerned at all with that! There is a full sample preview of each template once you login. I guess I need to put it in the landing to?
Did you try the tool? inside you can see a sample of all designs, or do you mean you would like to see them in the landing? something to keep in mind to update it.
Yeah, I'm with you on the bias with the pictures. I want to work on a way to customize a little bit (like removing picture, icons or changing the color accent) of designs before generating, but I have to think it out before building. That's why in the meantime I included a couple of designs without picture for people to use :D
Other users (like me) tend to look for a more polished design than that of what MS word/Google Docs etc... offer, but it is perfectly normal, this use case might not be relevant for you.