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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by chrisseaton »

gdsdfe wrote: post #161
vbtemp wrote: post #110

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 disturbed 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 there are any number of ways…

It's actually the norm in some parts of the world to have pictures on resumes

What do they use the picture for when they get them?

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by warnemuende »

Love the idea and the design as well. No clue if my points are mentioned in the comments already.

# Scale down face images

If you decide keeping the face images please scale them down to a thumbnail size. You make my browser load a 400x400 pixel image for than displaying it as 24x24 pixel. You can safe quite some bandwidth on your (and my) side.

Another option would to completely remove the images in favor of https://blurha.sh/ as the images are so small, that detail are not seen anyways.

# Server side rendering for SEO

Please render the site on the server, so it can be used without javascript, can be crawled by google and is a lot faster as well.

You could leverage a service like: https://www.seo4ajax.com/ so you don't have to actually build a server side rendering pipeline.

# Check for web accessibility

I would enjoy having my CV being accessible to a wide array of humans. Some of the contrast and the font size seems to not be optimal for that (and also some screenreaders have problems with the javascript stuff => see server side rendering)

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://read.cv/andy

# Email + password login

I am privacy aware and delete my cookies quite often. The process of waiting for the email and than opening the link (which is broke btw if it is not opened in the same context as the login window) is annoying. Please let me use a username+password to login. (Which can be auto filled by my browser)

# Export as PDF

Here in Germany quite some companies still want printed out CVs or at least PDFs. Would be greate to be able to send them a link to an autogenerated PDF e.g. https://read.cv/andy/pdf

Keep up the work.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by tuananh »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #270
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

> + Super readability I disagree; it uses a fraction of the available screen size (optimized for mobile?), the font is small, and worse, it's grey-on-white; the contrast is too low. I also did a bamboozle; turns out the profile on the linked page here is not actually the demo, but just an image / screenshot on a landing page. Didn't really clock that it was a landing page; maybe link directly to the example and updat…

> I disagree; it uses a fraction of the available screen size (optimized for mobile?), the font is small, and worse, it's grey-on-white; the contrast is too low.

Agree. it's very hard to read. contrast is too low,. font is too small.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by fedd »

dylan604 wrote: post #173
fedd wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but what if my face is quite pretty and I want to share its outlook in some circle?

Might I suggest something more appropriate where other users are looking for it like Insta/FB/etc. Maybe if you're so special, try looking for an agent and get on a billboard on the side of the highway so that I can show you my improvemnts with a can of spray paint

I'm translating this as "don't you dare to joke with me"

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by zimpenfish »

systemvoltage wrote: post #204
dimgl wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are fantastic criticisms. Almost exactly what I was thinking verbatim.

Back in 1960's, my dad worked as a draftsman. His work was impeccable. But once in a while, he got told, pretty harshly that this is a piece of shit. And he had to work 15 hours to fix a mistake. No, I am not talking about a typo which can be marked with a white marker. Hard-to-objectively-evaluate things like "Dimensions are just not as readable as they can be. You could arrange them this way, look. It's better." He…

> Find out why they're passionately criticizing it.

Sometimes this is just "because they're an arsehole" and the criticism is garbage.

> people who are really good at stuff are drowned in the noise

Or people who could be really good at stuff get disheartened by the harsh criticism and we as a society lose out.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by 1337shadow »

Great! I've been wondering for a while if I should do my own but I've been living fine with my StackOverflow CV. Nonetheless I have created a CV there on read.cv/jpic and tried all the features and have a couple of ideas:

- I tried "Print to file" to export a PDF because a lot of times sites ask you to upload a PDF, it turned out only the first page got out, this might be a bug, another thing is that we don't see the picture and there's not much colors

- It would be great to be able to create several CVs, when I apply to a corpo dev job I show a corpo dev CV and when I apply for a freelancer job I show a freelancer CV and when I apply to a corpo management job I show another and so on

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by darekkay »

Some constructive tips on making the design more accessible/inclusive:

- "gray-3" on white has a really low contrast ratio (confirmed by others in this thread)

- remove "maximum-scale=1" from your viewport meta tag

- use semantic HTML / landmarks (e.g. "aside" instead of "div id='sidebar'")

- add a label to your "sidebar-toggle" button

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