Show HN: We created custom domains for read.cv with Vercel edge functions

Awhile back we shared a new professional platform we'd created called Read.cv — a super minimalist profile with your work history, projects, and case studies. A lot of people had been asking for custom domains to turn their profile into a personal homepage. Well today we are happy to launch personal domains, complete with custom typography and themes!

We used Vercel's new Edge Functions to make the routing work seamlessly in our web app, while under the hood it's actually using Cloudflare Workers to do middleware processing and routing at the edge layer. Because all this routing happens at the edge layer before requests even make it to our web app, we get features like bundle splitting, authentication and caching at the per domain level, and all for free. The end result is that we can build a web app without worrying about all the hairy details: we can re-use components from our main site in custom domains, static resources correctly load from custom domains rather than our main site, and all the routing logic is cached at the edge layer for fast handling.

Let us know if you try out custom domains, and happy to answer any questions about the feature!

A lot of people like to think of us as a complete LinkedIn replacement, which is a bit far fetched given our 2 person team. I like to think of LinkedIn as a way to be found and indexed by a massive search engine, and Read.cv as your friendly profile you would want to share with recruiters or as the link in your bio. Custom domains make your profile even more professional to share too!

We also have a great tight knit community of creatives who aren't into the LinkedIn influencer posts — so you might find some chill new people to connect with as well!