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Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
Author : _andychung
Score : 290 points
Date : 2021-01-04 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (read.cv)
(TXT) w3m dump (read.cv)
| css wrote:
| I have been using represent.io for this purpose; nice to see some
| competition in this space.
| lordlarm wrote:
| This is awesome!
|
| As many others are sharing feedback, I thought I'd might add some
| myself: I would like to have better support for changing roles
| internally within the same company (ie promotions etc) and in
| this regard having the month available at least as an option
| would be great. LinkedIn uses the company as a higher level
| grouping, then the years/months spent in a certain position.
|
| For me to use this regularly I would have some reason to check
| in; and I guess either building up "company profiles" where I
| could see people who work in a certain company or indeed an
| interesting way to find companies and open positions would be
| great.
|
| I love the "features" section and the focus on adding people
| you've worked closely with.
|
| As you are - it seems - involved in Quip too, I'm cheeky enough
| to add some feedback in that product: fix notifications (!) -
| managing and keeping track of them is close to impossible, make
| it easier to actually discuss higher level on a particular
| document (not per line, and the comments in the sidebar
| disappears quickly) and lastly please add support for collapsing
| certain sections of a document :-)
| rotbart wrote:
| Overall would recommend leveraging the schema from JSONResume
| (https://jsonresume.org/schema/) that supports all of the above
| _andychung wrote:
| Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a
| company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make
| that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the
| beginning.
|
| As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the
| feedback on!
| krmmalik wrote:
| This seems very useful, but one question I have is how suitable
| is this for freelancers? Not everyone is looking for a full-time
| Job or wants to present a CV as such but still wants to showcase
| their work and what they've achieved but your site seems a little
| more Cv oriented?
|
| I hope it makes sense what I'm getting at?
| _andychung wrote:
| For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal
| weight to things like projects and side projects for this very
| reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm
| hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and
| sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even
| use as a personal website.
| krmmalik wrote:
| Yes. I'm interested in the personal website aspect.
| swyx wrote:
| signed up immediately. looks beautiful. i LOVE that you have dark
| mode right out of the gate.
|
| what are your plans for this? is this a fun side project or a
| proto-startup?
| _andychung wrote:
| Thank you! It started as a side project but I have a few ideas
| on how to turn this into something a bit more real.
| udfalkso wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| One thing I'd need to have if I continue to play with it is some
| toggle for public/draft. Right now it seems my profile is
| immediately public but I'm not sure I want to keep it yet, and
| it's still a WIP even if I do. Thanks!
| jgurewitz wrote:
| I really dig this. Well done.
|
| I like the collaborator feature.
|
| One piece of feedback, I almost missed the contact information at
| the bottom of the profile. Any chance of having a preferred
| contact at the top so it's harder to miss?
| _andychung wrote:
| You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab
| handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
| saos wrote:
| Clean and simple!
| alexjray wrote:
| Things I like.
|
| - projects and feature section.
|
| - Simple clean design, easy to edit
|
| - printable
|
| Things I don't like
|
| - Super buggy
|
| - no support for company lookup/reference (need to build company
| DB and connect the social graphs, this is why Linkedin is so
| valuable/has a moat i.e. your biggest challenge.)
|
| - No ability to add a custom section to my profile.
|
| - I would like to add things non-work related like music i'm
| listening to, books I'm reading etc...
|
| - The above makes things more personal, but I would go even
| further the more intimate the better IMO. Work is personal.
| _andychung wrote:
| Have definitely been thinking about how to make sections more
| customizable as I'll never be able to make the defaults cover
| every use case. What bugs are you encountering?
| swyx wrote:
| perhaps you could implement a simple feedback/bug report
| button so that people can send it in in context. i like
| encouraging using Loom too, since its free
| twobitshifter wrote:
| There are 27 photos at the bottom on mobile? Who are these
| people? If these are example profiles I would try to get a more
| diverse and inclusive grouping. There is not a woman in the 27
| and ideally it would be 50/50
| _andychung wrote:
| These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and
| unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
| camdenlock wrote:
| "Unfortunately".
|
| What a ridiculous culture we've built if this sentiment is
| widely accepted. Just bizarre.
| [deleted]
| xyzelement wrote:
| Does it make sense to speak about the composition of a group
| without understanding what the group membership represents?
|
| Eg: what if that's the list of people who gave him financial
| support building it? What if it's his buddies from the Navy
| SEALS? Perhaps it's a list of sexual predators in his area?
| Should it still be 50/50...
|
| Though I agree it's not clear what those pics on the bottom
| represent.
| h327 wrote:
| The design is really elegant! I could see myself using this if I
| could make my CV unlisted / un-indexed. I used to have a public
| resume, but then recruiters found it and relentlessly spammed me
| with irrelevant recruiting offers, and also spread my resume to
| more and more recruiting spam networks.
|
| I also wonder if you have a plan for monetization; I didn't see a
| FAQ about content rights / usage / pricing.
| _andychung wrote:
| Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter
| spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of
| comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how
| to better support this.
|
| In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect
| free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I
| could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs
| section or something.
| jariel wrote:
| You folks may want to reconsider having photos in CVs.
|
| Not only are people going to be very strongly biased by race,
| ethnicity etc., but also by the trivialities of presentation:
| dress, apparent attitude, choice of background. All of those
| things signal 'personal brand'.
|
| These things are becoming 'far too important' in terms of how we
| evaluate each other and this development is really lacking in
| self awareness for a generation of folks who are supposed to be
| against this kind of stuff.
|
| Secondarily, I'm wary that overall, this is just contributes to
| the 'life resume BS' competition of filling up your professional
| profile with rubbish to make you seem engaged - much like 'GitHub
| commits' as some kind of signal of validity.
|
| At least with LinkedIn it's considered to be 'professional' i.e.
| this is your 'work presentation' - the casual nature of these new
| CVs tries to blend some personal and aspiration aspects so as to
| make the individual seem more 'authentic'. This is a creeping
| cultural problem and might be the source of a lot of baseline
| social conflict in the office. It's a 'place of work' - your
| hobbies are nice, but not relevant.
| bmallerd wrote:
| Hello from Vancouver! Great work.
|
| One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import
| from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information
| has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over.
|
| Hit me up if you need some help.
| vaillant wrote:
| Very cool, and great use of the read.cv domain name.
| samirsd wrote:
| my only gripe is that it takes too many clicks to change your
| profile photo, otherwise looks amazing!
| ttamslam wrote:
| Apologies for being off topic, but the side project you link -
| https://andychung.me/self-portrait - is absolutely awesome. Runs
| like butter in the browser and I absolutely love the art style.
|
| Kudos to you!
| I_am_tiberius wrote:
| Yes it's great. But why does he wear slippers outside?
| bigdict wrote:
| Birkenstocks + white socks, classic.
| mav3rick wrote:
| Those aren't slippers. Those are birkenstocks!
| _andychung wrote:
| Haha yup
| cjjuice wrote:
| with socks?!
| mav3rick wrote:
| Yes, there's some controversy but it's definitely a thing
| to wear them with socks.
| _andychung wrote:
| Wow thank you! It was definitely a fun project.
| eitland wrote:
| Absolutely buttery smooth in my (non Chrome/Chromium) mobile
| browser.
|
| Brilliant!
|
| If anyone wonders: there has been so many somewhat interesting
| websites lately that only works in Chrome that it is well worth
| pointing out when something _just works_.
| adamredwoods wrote:
| Oddly didn't work so well on my Chrome (I have 100+ tabs
| open), but did great on Firefox.
| Animats wrote:
| I saw the world "mindful", and groaned.
| camdenlock wrote:
| Also saw the addition of the pronouns section and cringed. I
| hope such expressions of religious affiliation are optional.
| sebdufbeau wrote:
| They are optional, but I'm not sure what pronouns have to do
| with religion.
| swamy_g wrote:
| (unsolicited) Feedback: Why are there other people on my CV? Who
| are they to begin with? And when a recruiter is looking at my CV,
| I don't want them clicking on other people.
| spockz wrote:
| I actually really like the concept of naming collaborators.
| Most great work is done in teams. Either through sparring or
| checking. The individualistic view on cvs does injustice to the
| complex dynamics of teams and performers.
| qorrect wrote:
| > Most great work is done in teams.
|
| But most teams don't produce great work - it's all dependent
| on the team makeup, bringing it back around to individuals.
|
| I wish I was on a great team again - they seem harder and
| harder to find.
| _andychung wrote:
| The idea is that you're able to (optionally) tag coworkers and
| collaborators in your work experience and projects. Although
| this doesn't track 1:1 with the traditional CV use case, it
| felt like a great way to celebrate the people you work with and
| create lightweight endorsements.
|
| If you choose to print or save your profile as a PDF these tags
| are hidden automatically, making it much more of a traditional
| CV, appropriate for job applications etc.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| It isn't any form of "endorsement" if you can add them
| without confirmation from the person you're tagging.
| tmhrtly wrote:
| I think you are lightweight endorsing them, not the other
| way around.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| Their image appearing on a CV feels (inaccurately) like
| an endorsement of that CV, given people's typical goals
| when looking at a CV.
| SavannahJS wrote:
| First off - cool project, nice work!
|
| Just riffing off some ideas for the 'coworkers and
| collaborators' section as well since I agree that I wouldn't
| find it useful as a sometimes-recruiter in its current state.
|
| I think the section could do with some more structure or
| information given. E.g. instead of just loose association
| with other folks who work at the same company, break
| associations into 'reports to', 'close teammates', 'manages'
| (or make that information visible on hover or something).
| There's probably a pretty cool hierarchical way to show this
| information but maybe people would find that too invasive. As
| someone who conducts interviews pretty often, understanding a
| person's team structure would definitely be useful, and would
| still serve the 'social proof' function you've described.
|
| The collaborator's title while they were involved with that
| specific project might also make it easier to parse what the
| working relationship was between the CV owner and the
| collaborator as well.
| maltris wrote:
| Like it, cool feature would be: Some kind of passphrase-
| protection or option to make the profile private.
| _andychung wrote:
| For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from
| people who would like to hide their profile from their current
| employer.
| molloy wrote:
| Very nice!
|
| So, in Safari on iOS 14, the view demo link brought me to a page
| that was mostly blank besides the name and picture. I turned on a
| screen recording to capture the bug, but then was unable to
| reproduce it (started the recording on this page and followed the
| link again.) I should have thought to screenshot the page before
| doing so, oh well! Maybe it was due to a failed XHR request for
| the profile data, if the pages are being rendered client-side.
| _andychung wrote:
| Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird
| connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
| ColinWright wrote:
| Some feedback from a random internet person, take it with a
| fistful of salt.
|
| Why are there non-functioning arrows next to the names of
| projects, companies, _etc._?
|
| Why does it keep randomly re-rendering while I'm trying to read
| something?
|
| The design is, no doubt to some people, gorgeous, but I'm finding
| the landing page example completely unusable. If it's intended to
| show off capability then it needs to be clear that that's the
| purpose. If it's intended to be usable then it needs to be re-
| thought.
|
| (Later)
|
| Ah, when I go to an actual example then the arrow isn't
| functional, but the text on which the arrow is placed, is a link.
|
| My reaction ... I don't want it to be discoverable, requiring
| exploration to work out the functionality. I want it to be
| immediately obvious, using existing internet norms. If I visit
| for the purpose of looking at a CV I don't want to have to learn
| how to use the site, I want to get the information I'm looking
| for.
| _andychung wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned the arrows indicate
| that the project is an outbound link (links are optional so
| having a visual indication that something is linked was
| necessary, though there are certainly other ways this could be
| achieved).
|
| Pages subscribe to updates in real time, so I think you just so
| happened to be viewing a profile as it was being edited. Seems
| like live updates should probably only be on for the editor.
|
| As for the landing page I'm hoping to redo this in general. As
| a quick first version I just embedded an actual profile so I
| wouldn't have to update image assets as the design changed, but
| I can see how this approach is confusing.
| Exuma wrote:
| text way too small and hard to read, by like an order of
| magnitude
| eplanit wrote:
| I stumbled at "Mindful", and then stopped fully at "He/him".
| [deleted]
| maltris wrote:
| Like it. A nice feature would be: Some kind of password-
| protection or private mode.
| asimjalis wrote:
| Nice work. Quick feedback. Instead of (or in addition to) using
| Google to authenticate could you use LinkedIn? That way the site
| could pull my information from LinkedIn instead of making me
| enter it again.
| _andychung wrote:
| Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be
| awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| This is visually very attractive. Have you considered supporting
| uploading structured resume formats like FRESH?
|
| Edit: also I want to emphasize the fact that this looks great _on
| mobile_ , which isn't something I always expect in this space.
| That said I'd consider bumping up the text size a bit (or
| allowing users to do so for their own profile).
| mxuribe wrote:
| > ...structured resume formats like FRESH...
|
| I've never heard of this (FRESH), and am intrigued and
| interested. Would you kindly share some more info on this?
| indymike wrote:
| There's also HR Open Standards Candidate as well.
| vaillant wrote:
| I was wondering about the existence of structured resume
| formats, so thank you for this random piece of knowledge in a
| place I did not expect to find it.
| DavidAdams wrote:
| This is a good suggestion. If I've already gone to the trouble
| to make a machine-readable resume, it would be nice to at least
| seed my CV with the data from that file.
| olegp wrote:
| Would you be able to provide a link to the FRESH format you
| mention? What other structured resume formats are there in
| widespread use?
| photonios wrote:
| In Europe, EUROPASS is not uncommon:
| https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
| _andychung wrote:
| I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into
| it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make
| it easier for people would be great.
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| It might also help you refine your data model to use other
| structured standards as a reference. It's helped me think
| about building my own personal site presentation.
| edoceo wrote:
| I can't swipe or otherwise close the left menu once it's open
| (Android/pixel3/chrome)
|
| Remember resume.json spec that was on here a few years ago? Any
| plans to support that?
| _andychung wrote:
| I haven't implemented gestures to open the sidebar yet
| unfortunately - currently to close the sidebar on mobile either
| tap the right edge of the screen (the sliver of the detail), or
| tap a navigation item in the sidebar.
| jshmrsn wrote:
| User feedback: I don't know if read.cv will be around forever
| since it's a new thing. I feel compelled to give it a shot since
| I'm attracted to the cleaner low-noise profiles compared to
| LinkedIn. I was scanning the marketing material to see if there
| was an option to export a CV as static HTML in case I wanted to
| self-host the CV. The closest thing was the bullet about
| printability, which I assume means I can at least save as a PDF.
| Even so, an static HTML export option would have made it even
| more compelling to setup a profile.
| _andychung wrote:
| This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your
| data.
| _andychung wrote:
| I started read.cv when transitioning from full time to freelance
| design in July. I wanted an easy to update 'about me' page to
| link from my website and bio - something simpler than LinkedIn
| and more dynamic than a PDF.
|
| Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give
| projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and
| work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in
| your experiences, status updates, and print optimized profiles.
|
| It took me around three months (Sept to November) to get it out
| the door, and I've been working on making improvements since.
| Open to any questions or feedback!
| potiuper wrote:
| How was the experience with setting up a Cape Verde entity for
| the domain? Any issues or regrets?
| _andychung wrote:
| I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I
| didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried
| again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration
| process and I haven't had any issues so far.
| adambyrtek wrote:
| I guess you simply purchase the domain. Just like bit.ly
| which, as far as I know, doesn't have an entity in Libya.
| rodolphoarruda wrote:
| Hey Andy, good job! The app looks really clean and nice to
| navigate through.
|
| I just wanted to share a couple of "views" that I created to
| express my career in a different way. I'm sharing just for your
| inspiration. (content in Portuguese, but I bet you can auto
| translate it)
|
| Experience view; years of experience per theme/subject.
| https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/experiencia/
|
| Projects & cultural context in chronological order (notice the
| flags) https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/eu/lista-de-projetos/
|
| I decided to make those views available because I stopped
| believing the standard CV/LinkedIn format for presenting myself
| and my career.
|
| Cheers and keep up the great work!
| russomi wrote:
| Well done. I'm going to use it.
| neom wrote:
| Hey Andy, I never received the verification email. je at
| h4x.club
| MattGaiser wrote:
| Check your junk. That is where mine ended up.
| neom wrote:
| Ha, thanks. Went past spam and straight to trash for some
| reason. First time I've seen that from a signup.
| _andychung wrote:
| Welp, sorry about that. Wonder if the .cv tld makes has
| anything to do with this...
| MattGaiser wrote:
| What are you using for your email backend?
| _andychung wrote:
| The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
| fuddle wrote:
| This looks cool, really nice design. It would be good to list a
| few more example profiles, it's hard to get an idea of what a
| profile would look like by only seeing yours.
| _andychung wrote:
| For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the
| homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| Maybe try some screenshots that imply the target use cases?
|
| IE:
|
| Why would I use this when I have a profile on LinkedIn?
|
| Why would I use this when I could just put a resume up on my
| website?
| 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
| Vs. LinkedIn: I started using it in 2009, but it's become
| virtually unusable for me. The only reason I haven't deleted my
| account is it has up to date contact information for my 1,300
| LinkedIn connections.
| vbtemp wrote:
| Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and
| clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch.
|
| I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except
| this: I am really annoyed by the common meme of faces-inside-
| circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the
| content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues
| together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and wish there
| was a way to do it that does not involve people's pictures.
| nchelluri wrote:
| I agree with what you've said. I like the site and I think it's
| very nice, but I dislike headshots.
| https://twostepsforward.co/2015/10/on-web-authorship-trends/
| etrautmann wrote:
| This is really tough - humans are hardwired to form connections
| and remember people by recognizing faces. This, of course, is
| also exactly the problem, in that it allows for bias or
| prejudice of many different types to influence our judgements.
|
| I think I agree with you that the downsides and inherent
| unfairness of the genetic attractiveness lottery outweigh the
| upsides of attaching a name to a face. It's an empirical
| question then whether this works for users.
| pranade wrote:
| Love the design -- pretty cool work!
| JamesAdir wrote:
| Looks great! Could you share details about your stack? Would live
| to learn more about it.
| waynesonfire wrote:
| beautiful design.
| marcinzm wrote:
| My feedback is that the collaborators aren't very useful to me.
| As in, I get 10+ tiny unrecognizable face icons and a name if I
| hover over them. There's no way to a see a list of collaborators
| and their one sentence blurbs for a specific project. Not even
| sure if shared collaborators are highlighted if you're logged in
| yourself or not.
| _andychung wrote:
| I'm thinking of simply truncating collaborators after a certain
| number and offering the ability to open the full list in a
| modal or something.
| danaliv wrote:
| This is awesome! I'd recommend adding a section for
| certifications. I have a bunch of FAA certs that are career-
| relevant but they don't fit naturally into any of the existing
| profile sections.
|
| I'd also suggest making some of the fields wider. 24 characters
| for location isn't going to be long enough, for example.
| _andychung wrote:
| Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested
| are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding
| these soon.
| alanchen wrote:
| Would be wonderful if the status can be synced with my Twitter
| account!
|
| Also would definitely pay for it I can use a custom domain.
| aabbcc1241 wrote:
| Looks not bad on mobile phone but the font size can be made
| bigger.
| _andychung wrote:
| For sure, have heard this a few times now.
| 6510 wrote:
| the Side Projects links here don't work https://read.cv/about
| andygcook wrote:
| Congrats on the launch. Overall it's really clean and I like the
| design.
|
| Some quick feedback, which you can take with a grain of salt: * I
| was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected it to
| be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View Demo
| button. * I love the collaborators feature. IMO this is one the
| biggest missing factors of LinkedIn (e.g. who did you actually
| work with on a small team) * It would be nice to be able to
| customize the invite message when inviting a collaborator. * The
| Create a Profile button on the homepage doesn't user cursor:
| pointer, which made me miss that it was the sign up button at
| first glance. * It looks like most of the links don't have
| cursor: pointer, which feels off to me * Once I saved my profile,
| it took me a minute to find the edit button in the bottom left
|
| Overall, nice working and I'm looking forward to following the
| updates. Also, great first name you have there.
| vulcan01 wrote:
| > I was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected
| it to be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View
| Demo button.
|
| Another option is to have the "view example" button visible
| even before the user scrolls.
| _andychung wrote:
| Thank you fellow Andy -- Hear you about the homepage, hoping to
| completely redo it soon and create more abstracted visuals. In
| terms of the pointer, my current logic is to use cursor:
| pointer on anything that visually looks like a link (e.g.
| unstyled text), and to leave it as default for components that
| have a visual affordance that they are clickable (e.g. buttons
| or tabs). I realize this might not be the most web-like
| convention though - might be worth it to just move all
| clickable components to the pointer cursor.
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| Yes please; personally, I've had couple of decades of
| training and habits that a change in cursor indicates
| clickability; without my cursor changing, it feels like a
| static image, not interactive page.
|
| Otherwise, awesome sauce :)
| bagels wrote:
| No cursor on mobile, so it's not enough.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| > my current logic is to use cursor: pointer on anything that
| visually looks like a link (e.g. unstyled text), and to leave
| it as default for components that have a visual affordance
| that they are clickable (e.g. buttons or tabs). I realize
| this might not be the most web-like convention though - might
| be worth it to just move all clickable components to the
| pointer cursor.
|
| The cursor isn't the only problem. The way you present the
| screenshot fundamentally _looks_ like a functional profile.
| It isn 't just that the links look like links but aren't
| clickable. Text also isn't selectable. In general, it's in
| the uncanny valley that feels really uncomfortable. Consider
| making it look very obviously like a sample screenshot:
| caption it at the top, move it to the side beside (rather
| than above) the explanation of the site, layer a couple of
| profiles atop each other so they look like "sheets", or
| similar. Those would help trip people's "ah, it's a sample
| screenshot" pattern recognition.
| _andychung wrote:
| Totally, on my to do list to redo the homepage with more
| abstracted product visuals!
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| This is pretty awesome, I ended up just creating my full
| profile and swapping my personal details from here to there.
|
| The only thing I'm missing is the Publications and
| Certifications section (had to create an award for the certs)
| paulgrahamsack wrote:
| #nit - an affordance is something that can be done, a
| signifier is a visual clue that you can do something
|
| https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94265/whats-the-
| diffe....
| throwaway212135 wrote:
| Why did you add your personal pronouns? I don't understand why we
| are stating the obvious here.
| whiddershins wrote:
| I would like it if the collaborators were in a cluster on the
| right of the Company name, rather than inline. It would make it
| more clear that this is a related concept.
|
| As you eyes go down the left side of the page you would read
| contiguous CV info, supporting information would be a little more
| segregated to the right.
| orky56 wrote:
| Great idea and execution! I personally find the white space
| excessive and it's made more obvious on print. Unless someone is
| name dropping companies, I would expect a resume to have a lot
| more information in a higher density view. A cool idea would be
| to replace the facepile with various icons with numbers next to
| it to show quantified metrics that were accomplishments of
| various positions/projects ($X rev/# commits/# users/etc.)
| ajkjk wrote:
| oh god please don't make an engineer (at least) prove their
| worth in a bunch of silly metrics
| erikig wrote:
| This made me chuckle. Having been an outsourced technical
| partner for a number of marketing agencies, I completely feel
| your pain.
| throwaway212135 wrote:
| Why did you add in your personal pronouns? Are you saying that
| there are more than 2 sexes? Can you just change your sex with
| the flip of a switch? Let's end this trend of adding our pronouns
| to every social profile.
| 42droids wrote:
| It's pretty awesome. Great job.
|
| I have been working on a similar project aimed at content
| creators - they also need their LinkedIn. The idea is that you
| can build your Authentic Profile by connecting your social APIs.
| It's called Authentic https://authenticstats.com and it's growing
| fast. :)
|
| Good luck with your project.
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