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

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

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Post by adgar » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 1:49 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by macspoofing » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 1:53 AM UTC

InfinityX0 wrote: post #67

I just e-mailed this to them, but how they get regular sales leads is through the Universities. The universities want to get their students jobs, and if you have a real value-add service that will do that, they should have no problem posting your link and being aware of you in their offices. Your startup should be the first thing mentioned by their Career Development offices and resume courses when students ask "how…

I wouldn't recommend students pay $100 for a resume printing service.

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

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Post by adambard » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 1:59 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by dcaldwell » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

macspoofing wrote: post #72

InfinityX0 wrote: post #67

I just e-mailed this to them, but how they get regular sales leads is through the Universities. The universities want to get their students jobs, and if you have a real value-add service that will do that, they should have no problem posting your link and being aware of you in their offices. Your startup should be the first thing mentioned by their Career Development offices and resume courses when students ask "how…

I wouldn't recommend students pay $100 for a resume printing service.

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

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

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Post by sc00ter » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:03 AM UTC

fourspace wrote: post #68

samstave wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This exists. from linked in: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/ There is another service (3rd party) that does this, but I can't recall the URL...

Looks like they may have just ripped off other designs: http://sampleresumetemplate.net/

The resume image, but not the template.

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

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Post by Cariapa » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:08 AM UTC

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…

You can already do this at kinzaa.com.

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

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Post by dcaldwell » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:11 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.

Haha, my place in Greenville is well under this price and is 1 block off Main St. You should check Greenville out!

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

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Post by patio11 » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:19 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by ricardobeat » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:41 AM UTC

sgdesign wrote: post #58

I've got to say I'm amazed at the number of templates you have. It must've taken quite a lot of total designer hours to create all these. Any plans to code them and let people generate mini-sites from them? I could see that doing pretty well too. In any case the service and site looks great, congratulations!

http://zerp.ly already covered that one :)

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

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Post by jnbiche » Sat, Apr 07, 2012, 2:45 AM UTC

dcaldwell wrote: post #74

macspoofing wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't recommend students pay $100 for a resume printing service.

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?