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Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website?

1•usercvapp•3h ago
Hey everyone!

Many people are looking for jobs and typically apply via a CV or a resume PDF file.

Do you guys think? Something that can put their CV/resume as a website with /blog, /now, a website builder would help them and would be in Demand?

I just built one at UserCV.com and thought this would just go wild, but it looks like no one even noticed it.

Now, before I go and add more features, themes, I would like to have an opinion, if something like that would ever be in Demand or should I just trash it and move on!

Comments

collinvandyck76•3h ago
It sounds kind of anachronistic, although I think there might be some markets for that outside of this bubble. If you're looking for critique, I think your landing page is extremely noisy for such a simple idea. You'd probably get better traction with a more focused design.
usercvapp•3h ago
That is very helpful feedback. I will optimise that in a couple of hours.

> It sounds kind of anachronistic,

Hmmmm interesting. I thought this was the perfect time for this, but you may be right based on the attention I have received for the product or maybe it's because of my noisy landing page.

collinvandyck76•3h ago
TBH I mostly use LinkedIn for this kind of thing. I do have a resume for the odd occasion I need it but LI mostly suffices. It's hard for me to know whether it would gain traction outside of my demographic, and so I can only speak narrowly.
usercvapp•3h ago
Agreed, all my network participants said the same thing: they prefer LinkedIn.

Their only reason for supporting something like this was that they bought a domain they liked, and now to have something on those domains without the stress of managing hosting and coding, they would use that, since their domain are sitting idle in their registrar.

byoung2•3h ago
You should talk to users...in this case users are not just the people who put their CV/resume on your site, but also the recruiters, hiring managers, and interview committees who will be looking at the CV/resume. Their applicant tracking systems expect a file to be uploaded, pasted, or entered manually so that they can run it through a scanner to match keywords or whatever. As an interviewer, I get the resume attached to calendar invites, so it needs to be uploaded for that to work.

So go talk to the users and ask them what they need to make their jobs easier. For applicants, maybe they need a way to submit a basic resume, and then for each job, they can paste a link to the job description, and you can have generative AI revise the resume to match the job being applied for, and then they can download the PDF and use it to apply to that job.

usercvapp•3h ago
yes, I did follow the above pattern, but due to a small network and few known people, they were excited, and a few of them signed up as well today, and others are going to sign up too, but it looks like that Validation failed right on my face.

You know, sometimes close small network validation fails too.

deverman•2h ago
I like the idea of the /now page but I wouldn't assume all your customers know Derek Sivers or want the extra work.

For the resume I'm not looking to publish publicly my resume, I just want to publish enough that it gets someone to contact me for my full resume.

I have noticed this open format for resumes which I quite like and maybe there is something you can do with it:

https://jsonresume.org

Good luck!

usercvapp•1h ago
very interesting, I will be looking into it and adding it.
msgodel•2h ago
I actually write my resume in html and just use Firefox to make a PDF out of it so I just scp to /var/www/html since that's practically free.

It's easy to just jump in and another <ul> tag when I learn something or switch companies. I don't like spending a ton of time on it since no one else seems to read it anyway.

usercvapp•1h ago
I would disagree here, people would still stalk other colleagues' blog posts or resumes or their CVs.

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