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Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

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Post by arunoda »

iamdave wrote: post #43
arunoda wrote: post #37

Nice App. But adding a Buddhist monk is very bad. You can't do that. It's shame. You may not be an Buddhist. But for us this is like jesus as my mascot. This is shameless marketing you are trying to do with insulting a religion. I don't like to discuss here something like this. But this is bad.

But for us this is like jesus as my mascot. ....what? Excuse me for coming off as blunt here, but are you actually Buddhist?

Yes. I'm a buddhist and yesterday was our Vesak Festival where it is our holy festival. I feel so bad by looking this.

You all might seems this is not a bad thing. Because what I was talking here is not your culture. If the author of this product is a real buddhist he would understand this.

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

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Post by harshadura »

Most people may know yesterday was "Wesak day". Its the day Lord.Buddha was born. Buddhists are celebrating that day sacredly as Christians celebrate Christmas day, Seems like this is an Intentional doing by the creator, The little monk also got several features which let us biased to think this is an insult for Buddhism? Ripen, There are so many other suitable names available to call for the App. But why this much unfamiliarity for a Brand Name?

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#54

Post by damncabbage »

bharani_m wrote: post #38
SeoxyS wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You should allow creation of the resume in smaller chunks and save as you go. I get very nervous when I have to type more than a few sentences in an unsaved document. This. I avoid web editors like the plague, unless I know with certainty that they have no-reload auto-save.

The form data is being auto-saved to Local Storage using the Sisyphus jQuery plugin. So if you are using a modern browser, you don't have to worry about losing any unsaved data.

You need to tell the user that, though, even if it's just a calming progress indicator or "Saved." label that appears a little after making changes, or a dummy "Save" button they can click.

People have spent years developing habits to defend themselves from crappy web forms. They're not going to let go of those habits without a long adjustment period.

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

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Post by Orf_ »

This looks really interesting and something I have been wanting to find for a while. However, I broke it - if you don't fill in education or employment details generating the resume gives a 500 error.

Stuff like that makes me a bit nervous in giving my details to your site, what other errors and issues are there that might leak them to a 3rd party?

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#56

Post by chris_wot »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #35
chris_wot wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't applied for many jobs lately, huh?

Not in a while :) If I'm honest I do pay attention to the design/formatting of my résumé, I still would hope that a good employer would be more concerned about the information on the page. It can't always be counted on though.

The employer will, but the recruiter may not :-)

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#57

Post by gnaritas »

arunoda wrote: post #51
iamdave wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But for us this is like jesus as my mascot. ....what? Excuse me for coming off as blunt here, but are you actually Buddhist?

Yes. I'm a buddhist and yesterday was our Vesak Festival where it is our holy festival. I feel so bad by looking this. You all might seems this is not a bad thing. Because what I was talking here is not your culture. If the author of this product is a real buddhist he would understand this.

You don't sound like a Buddhist, and you certainly aren't acting like one. You're acting like what a Christian would think a Buddhist would act like. Holy festival... that is not the language of a Buddhist. Nor would a real Buddhist blame someone else for how they feel, nor would they treat Buddha as if he were Jesus; Buddha is not a god to be worshiped.

If this upsets you, and you're really a Buddhist, then go meditate on why you're allowing your mind to make you feel this way and leave this guy alone. Trying acting less like what you think a Buddhist is and more like Buddha would. Buddha would not feel insulted by a cartoon of a Buddha, Buddha would probably laugh.

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#58

Post by damir »

Here's what I like: 1. Simple to use. 2. Easy on the eyes. 3. Actually useful app & it solves real problem. 4. Like go-pro page copy and how you place it under my resumes so it's always visible.

Do-better's IMO: 1. No way to contact you. 2. I'd make the "go-pro" button the same as "your resumes" & "sign out" but different bgcolor to stand out. 3. Filling just personal details & saving gives 500 error when viewing resume. 4. $9.99 is one-time or recurring? 5. No way to share my resume (no social/web2.0 buttons)

Keep pushing, don't give up!

EDIT: Just saw social buttons on the left... Wide monitor & it was out of my sight...

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#59

Post by demigod »

gnaritas wrote: post #57
arunoda wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I'm a buddhist and yesterday was our Vesak Festival where it is our holy festival. I feel so bad by looking this. You all might seems this is not a bad thing. Because what I was talking here is not your culture. If the author of this product is a real buddhist he would understand this.

You don't sound like a Buddhist, and you certainly aren't acting like one. You're acting like what a Christian would think a Buddhist would act like. Holy festival... that is not the language of a Buddhist. Nor would a real Buddhist blame someone else for how they feel, nor would they treat Buddha as if he were Jesus; Buddha is not a god to be worshiped. If this upsets you, and you're really a Buddhist, then go medit…

Forget his language, he may not be a native English speaker and the difference in the way he acts, that based on our perception of how a Buddhist should be.

I may not be a Buddhist but as some one who love Buddhist philosophy, I find no reason to get offended at the picture, Actually I myself love seeing pictures of Buddha at more and more places (as long as its not used in profane ways) It actually cheers me up.

Re: Show HN: My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

#60

Post by memset »

Super cool! A few thoughts, in addition to everyone else's:

1. When I try to preview the HTML, I get a 500 error! ("We're sorry, but something went wrong")

2. Possibly do a better job telling us which fields are required. For example, I had to click the "save" button before finding out that my address was a required field.

3. The URLs are generally pretty and intuitive - thanks for that. http://www.resumonk.com/users/9999-username/ shows me a list of my resumes. Nitpick: http://www.resumonk.com/users/9999-username/resumes gives me a 404, maybe make that a listing page, or something? http://www.resumonk.com/users/9999-username/resumes/123.html is fine, though "123.html" is not a "pretty" url. Room for improvement there?

At any rate, this is really very well designed. Cool!

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