Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by mos1 » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:09 PM UTC

marketer wrote: post #9

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #2

I'm still looking through the site, but right off the bat, I'd say I'm not sure about the name. What does it mean? It's pronounced "Pro", but it reminds me of "faux", which is probably not what you want. Just wondering where the name came from and if I'm missing something clever.

Yeah, the moment I saw "Prauxmote yourself", i closed the window. I don't know if it's supposed to be cute or clever, but it made me feel uneasy.

I didn't close my window... but the only reason I didn't was that I was intending to provide a review for an HN'er, as a service.

I vomited a little in my mouth though, as I despise invented marketspeak words.

Also, I'm not on a particularly fast connection at the moment, but your graphical widget (I assume it was flash) took a few seconds to show up for me. I had probably 2-3 seconds where I was being told to Prauxmote myself, by PC... and that was it.

I definitely would've hit the back button in any other circumstance.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by mikeyg » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:11 PM UTC

Thank you very much for all of your feedback so far! Very thoughtful and appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by robotron » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:12 PM UTC

Interesting service and I agree with most of what's been said here. I have to reiterate the naming choice - it really does make me think of "faux", which would in turn cause me to hesitate passing out the URL to show my resume.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by robotron » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:14 PM UTC

erikwiffin wrote: post #10

Tawheed wrote: post #5

Don't waste time with slideshows, just put up a video and explain what it is your product does and why I care!

I'm at work, with no sound. Don't really want to watch videos anyways. In short, I loved the slideshows, and want to see more of them.

Agreed, I think it looks nice and catchy. It might need some design work I'm not qualified to comment on.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by aw3c2 » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:15 PM UTC

Your site is almost blank if the visitor has Javascript disabled. There is a huge blank space even if it is enabled, I guess a Flash thing? Just add some noscript elements and alt/text stuff. That would be good for crawler bots too I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by drewdrewdrew » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:16 PM UTC

+1 on the name...I say lose the stats and have either screenshots or an intuitive demo.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by tyrelb » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:16 PM UTC

robotron wrote: post #13

Interesting service and I agree with most of what's been said here. I have to reiterate the naming choice - it really does make me think of "faux", which would in turn cause me to hesitate passing out the URL to show my resume.

agreed. took me a while to figure out how to pronounce it, then figure out what it meant...

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by savrajsingh » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:16 PM UTC

check out hitbio.com

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by nysauhem » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:17 PM UTC

I'm playing around with the resume editing, which is pretty clean so far. I am wondering what the difference is between "project descriptions", "course or training information", and "job and project experience". It seems like you could combine the three and make the interface simpler.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write

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Post by tyrelb » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 9:18 PM UTC

privacy issue - i wouldn't want anyone knowing all my personal details. especially to the public.

maybe a hide / block feature. but then this would just become another .docx/.pdf resume site.

i like the idea of being able to share/critique. sometimes people are lost for words in their own resume and need help. eg: using action words when describing their role.

good work! keep it up!