It looks beautiful, but please increase the contrast. Some texts are #aaa on #fff, which is almost illegible. This is an accessibility issue not just for people with impaired vision, also for people checking a page on a mobile phone on a sunny day.
Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
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#122Love the clean look, certainly a break from LinkedIn.
Some minor feedback, it's strange that all the external links in your CV have an arrow next to them apart from the one at the very top of the page under your name [0] where you link to your website.
[0] - https://read.cv/andy
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#123I started read.cv when transitioning from full time to freelance design in July. I wanted an easy to update 'about me' page to link from my website and bio – something simpler than LinkedIn and more dynamic than a PDF. Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences,…
Hey Andy, good job! The app looks really clean and nice to navigate through. I just wanted to share a couple of "views" that I created to express my career in a different way. I'm sharing just for your inspiration. (content in Portuguese, but I bet you can auto translate it) Experience view; years of experience per theme/subject. https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/experiencia/ Projects & cultural context in chronological…
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
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#124Congrats on the launch. Overall it's really clean and I like the design. Some quick feedback, which you can take with a grain of salt: * I was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected it to be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View Demo button. * I love the collaborators feature. IMO this is one the biggest missing factors of LinkedIn (e.g. who did you actually work with on a small team) * I…
+1 about cursor: pointer. I also noticed that the text inside at least the top button can be highlighted when clicking. You can disable that with user-select: none;
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#125I like how clean and minimalistic the design is.
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#126Looks really nice. Wondering if it would make sense to have sections for a list of skills and/or projects (rather than just work experience)?
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#127Alright, I get it, but I’m not the target audience. Could you build a product that’ll help me disappear without a trace? An opposite, if you will, of what you’ve built.
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#128This is awesome! I’d recommend adding a section for certifications. I have a bunch of FAA certs that are career-relevant but they don’t fit naturally into any of the existing profile sections. I’d also suggest making some of the fields wider. 24 characters for location isn’t going to be long enough, for example.
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
Agreed. And I can't fit my professional title within the character limit either. But that's probably more of a sign of a personal/professional problem than a bug... :)
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#129I think this looks beautiful, definitely kudos for taking the time to finesse it so aesthetically.
If i had 5 CVs of this format to review i think i’d appreciate a few usability tweaks. The information density is too low for me. I think my ideal situation when consuming CVs is an uber dense firehose consisting of only relevant info.
I’d happily sacrifice the whitespace to have deeper detail about what was done in each role. I’d love if there was some consistency or key or colouring to help me figure out what each section contains.
E.g. if i read the first job listing and achievements/differentiators were in one colour box, responsibilities in a different colour and data like tenure/industry etc were in another colour box - then i could rapidly scan the other historical entries to compare and contrast, e.g. to help me get a flavour for how this person has chosen to develop their career over time for example.
Another thing i’d love is plenty of links to supporting info where available - git repos or published work etc.
This is going to sound ridiculous but i find the read aloud feature of the edge browser’s reader view and the two finger swipe audio reader of ios to be super useful. I have the speed cranked way up and i’m freed to efficiently write notes. If the format lent itself to speed read-aloud, i’d be a massive fan.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
“Unfortunately”. What a ridiculous culture we’ve built if this sentiment is widely accepted. Just bizarre.
Nothing bizarre about it; Diverse viewpoints tend to strengthen a community, so considering it unfortunate that HN doesn't benefit from a broader demographic distribution is pretty defensible.