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Side Project: 1 Month, $10,000

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

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Post by readme »

ryanglasgow wrote: post #17
joeld42 wrote: post #11

Hey just a free idea if anyone want to build it, I think a web app that generated stylish resumes automatically from your LinkedIn profile would be great. It could make watermarked ones for free preview and then charge you a few bucks if you wanted to download a real one. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Well, my resume's a bit out of date, but here's my linkedin.." Also, if you are LinkedIn, you could do…

I had this exact same idea few months ago but LinkedIn already has a nice resume generator: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com

If I had a quarter for every time I had an idea that was already done...

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

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Post by alexbowman »

beza1e1 wrote: post #110
alain94040 wrote: post #97

As a former hiring manager, I looked at your 100 first templates, and I must say that I don't like them. Yes, they look amazing and I would hire you to design my site's CSS, but for a job seeker, they are distracting. I want to see the job experience. I don't need special effects around "job experience", I don't need fancy backgrounds which make it harder to read the information. Sorry to be negative. Again, the desi…

Would you be impressed by more subtle qualities? Let's say a design with special effects, but printed with a professional printer on thicker paper. Maybe subtle effects like watermarks or micro embossing.

CVs are usually emailed and then printed on the office printer, so thicker paper may be redundant.

What is incredibly useful is understanding how those in a hiring organization read CVs, what they expect, and what they assume.

In terms of format: A lot of organisations, especially larger organisations for roles at more senior levels, output their internal candidate profiles, generated from internal systems, in landscape format. They will print a sent-in portrait document in portrait, but what is internally generated is often in landscape, with one left pane and one right pane. This spreads to computer-based viewing: Widescreen monitors are also becoming common place in offices, while laptop screens also tend towards a widescreen format. Why waste 2 large borders on each side of the page in default Word setup, Word being the default in large organisations.

I've never seen an externally sourced CV in landscape. Food for thought. Creative, or practical?

Also remember that eyesight tends to deteriorate with age. As an applicant, if the interviewer may be older, keep things legible.

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

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Post by dpritchett »

dendory wrote: post #108

I'm not sure why the focus here is that they gained that amount of revenue inside of a month. Looking at their traffic chart it seems like the site was never very popular until one specific date when they suddenly jumped to 20,000 users thanks to one highly successful promotion they did. So if anything this is more about how fab.com was really good for them.

Because many of us would like to imagine we are five weeks away from being part owners in a business pulling in over $100,000 a year.

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

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Post by jh3 »

readme wrote: post #121
ryanglasgow wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this exact same idea few months ago but LinkedIn already has a nice resume generator: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com

If I had a quarter for every time I had an idea that was already done...

You, me, and everyone else on HN would be a millionaire.

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

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Post by sctechie »

readme wrote: post #121
ryanglasgow wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this exact same idea few months ago but LinkedIn already has a nice resume generator: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com

If I had a quarter for every time I had an idea that was already done...

Just because someone has an idea before you doesn't mean your idea is not worth pursuing. Execution is sometimes more important than being big or first.

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

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Post by phzbOx »

beza1e1 wrote: post #111
dcaldwell wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) The project wasn't 1 month. This is just what we did in the roughly 1 month since we launched. 2) Yes, if you multiply the over 100 sales by our purchase price, we did over $10,000. 3) We don't convert html to PDF. Customers pick a resume design, upload their resume content (in Word or TXT or whatever,) and then we custom typeset it and send them a PDF as a digital file. Our graphic artists are great at making mul…

I think you should market your manual process more aggressively. Generating from templates is easy and cheap, but that a professional graphic artist is doing it, makes quite a difference.

I agree. I had no idea it was custom made by a graphic designer.. that would explain a lot more the 100$ cost and the fact that there's no demo.
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