Neat but I'm not sure I'd try to push that into my resume (as suggested by the author). If anything, resumes tend to be too noisy, hard to pick out what really matters.
Nice to have a place to keep all that stuff though.
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#12What a coincidence that I would run across this post while taking a break from struggling with exactly the problem this could solve.
I'm in the process of trying to summarize my real work and "value" to someone in reference to what could be a dream job. A job that my traditional resume doesn't quite fit.
It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself.
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#13Nice job Chris!
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#14What a coincidence that I would run across this post while taking a break from struggling with exactly the problem this could solve. I'm in the process of trying to summarize my real work and "value" to someone in reference to what could be a dream job. A job that my traditional resume doesn't quite fit. It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status…
It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself.
That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to their problems is most interesting of all.
Figure out a way to credibly claim that you increased sales or decreased costs at a past employer and that, by consequence, you could do it at a new employer -- most employers perk up at that sort of thing. Show them your plan for doing it. It's so effective it is practically cheating.
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#15Suggestion: "how much would you theoretically pay for this" won't give you much accurate information. I'd suggest changing it to "pre-register for one of our plans: free, $5, $25", with an overview of each, and see what people click.
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#16I'd use this but not as a resume tool. I'd use this as a motivational tool to keep track of the todo items I have since some of them are quite long running and to motivate me into getting those personal projects finished.
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#17Change the wording to be more affirmative. "We may, IF" -> "We will be".
A/B test the price points with a pre-registration, and do not take payment information yet.
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#18Just an interesting thought; you could actually build a page like this using our product (http://interstateapp.com) and its API (just whack up a custom theme and sort the board/roadmap by date). Best of luck with this regardless.
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#19Looks like it was heavily inspired by this (from ~2010):
http://culturedcode.com/status/
And I really like the concept, but I believe that the value of a "status dashboard" is that it's a concise view of what's happening right now. I really don't think that this sort of concept is a good resume replacement it's not a good format for 20+ items.
I'd suggest making it a status dashboard for what you're working on right now, and once things are "completed" they drop off into a bulleted list at the bottom which becomes your "work log" rather than "dashboard" at that point. Make it less overwhelming and I could really see a recruiter or business partner getting some good info from it.
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#20What a coincidence that I would run across this post while taking a break from struggling with exactly the problem this could solve. I'm in the process of trying to summarize my real work and "value" to someone in reference to what could be a dream job. A job that my traditional resume doesn't quite fit. It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status…
It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself. That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to…
I agree with essentially everything you're saying here, but I don't see how something like this couldn't be useful to show work behind my results progressed. Or at least easier to consume than a traditional resume or modern blog-as-resume for that purpose.
I'm thinking of it as a simple tool for providing context and references to what I've done. The first step in making those claims of results credible.
I'm not talking about shipping a link in lieu of a CV or proper introduction to a job I'm pursuing, rather when someone reaches out to me and would like to know what I'm up to - I can show them.
Obviously, once you get to the point of sitting face to face with someone it's a totally different type conversation, but for the first exchange I see nothing wrong with this.