Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

It's beyond me how two ex-Google engineers and graduates of top CS programs with 2 years on their hands end up creating a resume generator that a CS freshman could have written in their free time! Not putting you down or anything, sometimes unexpected random things jam your workflow (like unfamiliarity with front end design), etc.

When would i use your website?

The reason is simple: I need a resume.

Now what irritates me a lot is simple: Why would you offer a subscription?

I think you offer a subscription because you would like to have a self sustainable business. You were looking for something small to build and want to make money. Subscription means easy money.

But thats just wrong. I'm finding your webpage in the moment i need a resume. I need it now, i need one pdf to send to companies and thats it. I don't need it monthly and you spend resources in building something which doesn't fit my need

So how to make it better?

Think who would like to use you: a) a student -> money is tight, never wrote a resume b) someone who worked before and probably has enough money

This person needs to see in a glance how much it costs to get that resume, how easy it is and how it looks.

Your funnel needs to do this.

You need to tell someone 'you will create a super simple and smart resume and you will be able to download it at the end by paying 5$'. You can extend it after that person has created the cv with 'look if you pay now 20$, you can update your resume for the next 8 month and we also have 3 additonal features you can use'.

Then make it savable so that if that person, really should not have forgotten you when searching for a new job again, they are able to go to your website and continue where they left of.

I happen to be writing a book about writing a good developer resume - from the viewpoint of Google, Facebook, Netflix Uber and other tech company hiring managers and technical recruiters as coauthors and reviewers [1]. The book is in beta and I've not advertised it beyond one or two posts, and it's made over $2,500 in a month. So there is definitely some demand here, though I cannot tell how much.

The resume templates you have on site is pretty much the same, somewhat generic ones that profitable resume building sites like resume.io, EnhanCV or VisualCV have. They are not the best templates for hiring managers in tech - even though some candidates will be happy to pay for them, as they think it looks professional. Don't get me wrong: they will work okay, but there are far better ones, purely for optimizing for hiring managers.

Congrats on the sale, but if you are serious about the "resume for data scientists" direction, you might want to think about the market size, and if this what you want to do. All the resume services I know of cater for a much larger audience to make a profit - and, admittedly, this is one of their weakens.

On your site, right now, there seems to be little evidence why these resumes would have an advantage over e.g. the default Google Docs Serif or Swiss resume templates (which, the Minimalist looks very similar to). Selling one-off resumes might not be a fantastic business, or at least it would be a very one-sided marketplace. As someone else was suggesting, taking it a step further, and venture into you also connecting vetted data scientists with companies.

[1] https://thetechresume.com/

The really useful lesson that I'd like to highlight here is:

In 2020, even if you're a smart hardworking person and enterprising and so on, it's surprisingly hard to make a buck, much less a living.

Now, if you've worked at GCP for 10 years as an enterprise architect and your books is like "insights into using GCP" - that may not be very hard. You could make real money fast. But it took 10 years to get there, to accrue those credentials - essentially, to build your business.

10 years in, you might be able to make over 100k, on your business. But it took 10 years to lay the groundwork.

Now, of course, anytime anyone has an idea, it could be good, or bad. As a business, it could be a good business, or a bad business.

But seeing the forest for the trees here is recognizing that you're going to have to cycle through a surprisingly large number of ideas, and fight off a lot of other people who are trying just as hard as you are, in 2020.

At Standard Resume, we worked with hiring managers from several top tech companies and professional designers to make our templates that have been used by over 100,000 people. There are many factors that go into designing resumes, but the most important is always readability. If it's isn't easy to scan and read the resume, nothing else matters. The good news is that there is plenty of research behind text readability that can be applied to resumes. Having proper line spacing and adequate vertical white space are two of the most important.

I'm curious what you think of our tea plates, based on your personal research. https://standardresume.co/