Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000 • Hacker News Board

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

#81

Post by dcaldwell » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:54 AM UTC

jnbiche wrote: post #80

dcaldwell wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We actually don't print the resumes. We do the visual design.

Why is this getting downvoted? He's only describing what they do: the visual design. Presumably, the customer prints the résumé. Is that correct, dcaldwell?

That's correct. Some people think we do the printing but we actually provide the visual design service. We're considering adding a printing service down the road. Even in doing our photo shoots for the site, we learned a lot about what makes resumes look great in the printed format.

Right now, we send out 2 hi-resolution PDF files - 1 is for full bleed and 1 is for normal printouts on an office or home printer. That way the customer has the option of how they wan to print out the resume.

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by tricolon » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:59 AM UTC

dcaldwell wrote: post #59

joshmlewis wrote: post #51

I'll comment with another note, I love that this is coming out of Greenville. I live here and have traveled to Boston, SF, Seattle, DC and others but Greenville is up and coming. It's not too big but not too small. It's still small enough to have a piece of the intimate south, but big enough to feel a great part of the vibrant city. It's also dirt cheap to live here compared to somewhere else. A 2-3 bedroom apartment…

Another great site to learn about Greenville is: http://lifeingreenville.com/

Wow. That is a very well done website for a town I hadn't heard of before. I almost want to move there!

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

#83

Post by ktizo » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:04 AM UTC

Surely a resume should just consist of a screed of roughly formatted plaintext.

Or is that just not enough for Catbert in the current economic climate?

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by refurb » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:06 AM UTC

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #38

The resumes are very attractive. However, in my experience looking at resumes I put 0-1% of the weight on attractiveness. Maybe it's more useful for other fields, however.

I could see such a resume getting a positive response in design related professions, but in my field (biotech), it would get a negative response. The immediate thought would be "why??"

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:14 AM UTC

ktizo wrote: post #83

Surely a resume should just consist of a screed of roughly formatted plaintext. Or is that just not enough for Catbert in the current economic climate?

This tendency will keep growing and eventually an average resume will include a 20 minute video with music and interviews with all your previous bosses and co-workers; ending with fireworks that create the company logo and a bunch of cheer leaders screaming your name.... and eventually companies will get tired of it and just ask everyone to send _only_ a plain text version.

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

#86

Post by larrys » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:27 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #78

adambard wrote: post #73

Whenever I see a story like this, I have my hopes dashed when it turns out that the guy with the side project is just extremely talented. Well done.

The psychology at work here is not unfamiliar to me. I once came up with lots and lots of reasons why I could not ship things. Then I stopped and shipped things. I suggest you ship things. Life has brought me into contact with many folks who have side projects, for many values of "side project" and many levels of success. "Raw talent" explains very little of their difference from other people.

"for many values of "side project" and many levels of success. "Raw talent" explains very little"

Agree. Same reason why many pretty girls (or handsome men) aren't married but others with less obvious attributes are (and happily).

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by larrys » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:31 AM UTC

adgar wrote: post #71

joshmlewis wrote: post #51

I'll comment with another note, I love that this is coming out of Greenville. I live here and have traveled to Boston, SF, Seattle, DC and others but Greenville is up and coming. It's not too big but not too small. It's still small enough to have a piece of the intimate south, but big enough to feel a great part of the vibrant city. It's also dirt cheap to live here compared to somewhere else. A 2-3 bedroom apartment…

> It's also dirt cheap to live here compared to somewhere else. A 2-3 bedroom apartment for downtown in the heart of everything will run less than 2k if you find a good spot. As an NYC resident who lives in Chelsea, I wept when I read this.

I have nothing against Greenville but the opportunity in NYC is well worth the increase in rent and/or loss of space.

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by minikomi » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:32 AM UTC

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #85

ktizo wrote: post #83

Surely a resume should just consist of a screed of roughly formatted plaintext. Or is that just not enough for Catbert in the current economic climate?

This tendency will keep growing and eventually an average resume will include a 20 minute video with music and interviews with all your previous bosses and co-workers; ending with fireworks that create the company logo and a bunch of cheer leaders screaming your name.... and eventually companies will get tired of it and just ask everyone to send _only_ a plain text version.

Suddenly I see where LG is going with this technology: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/124229-lg-begins-mass...

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by jcc80 » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:39 AM UTC

dcaldwell wrote: post #81

jnbiche wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this getting downvoted? He's only describing what they do: the visual design. Presumably, the customer prints the résumé. Is that correct, dcaldwell?

That's correct. Some people think we do the printing but we actually provide the visual design service. We're considering adding a printing service down the road. Even in doing our photo shoots for the site, we learned a lot about what makes resumes look great in the printed format. Right now, we send out 2 hi-resolution PDF files - 1 is for full bleed and 1 is for normal printouts on an office or home printer. That…

I'm curious if you found a local pro photographer or diy because the photos look outstanding. They definitely provide a huge level of credibility from my perspective.

Re: Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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Post by phzbOx » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 3:41 AM UTC

Few questions:

1. How did you manage to get all these awesome resume templates?! That's fairly impressive for a one month project.. I could have had only one of them and I would be proud!

2. There's no talk about the 10,000$ in the blog.. where does it come from? Is it 100 sales? Is it less but with more urgent need (For instance, clicking "1 day" or "custom color").

3. About the process of converting the html template to a pdf.. how does it work and how good is it? For instance, is it a simple html->pdf which could give ugly conversion or end-of-page text to be displayed wrongly on the next page?

And as a suggestion, it'd be interesting to give a demo of the cv. For instance, I'd enter my data, it'd show me the resume but with a clear "Demo" written on each page of the pdf.. or something similar.