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Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#1

Post by karthikm » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:27 PM UTC

resu.me (http://resu.me/) launched day before yesterday. Venturebeat covered our launch - http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/.

A short snippet about resu.me - resu.me is a career networking platform for college grads/young professionals. resu.me uses semantic web and machine learning to match users with jobs better and faster. resu.me provides a set of awesome tools (RSS reader, Portfolio Wall, Blog/code post tool, Job aggregation and some more) that lets one quickly build a meaningful resume/network and land that dream job. resu.me is the one resume to rule them all :)

We'd love to hear your feedback/thoughts/suggestions. As a token of gratitude to HNers, we'll give a 2 letter http://xy.resu.me/ account (FCFS, if not already taken). Just indicate your current resu.me URL and your desired 2 letter resu.me URL.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#2

Post by karthikm » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:29 PM UTC

Clickable links: http://resu.me/ and http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#3

Post by avree » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:33 PM UTC

You should consider some serious design review. You want to appeal to young users, and yet your website is reminiscent of a site from the early 2000's.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#4

Post by karthikm » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

avree wrote: post #3

You should consider some serious design review. You want to appeal to young users, and yet your website is reminiscent of a site from the early 2000's.

We are working on a redesign. Would you have any recommendations for good designers/design houses?

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#5

Post by iamdave » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#6

Post by karthikm » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:02 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #5

I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.

try this - http://nivedithaa.resu.me/

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#7

Post by ajkirwin » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:02 AM UTC

http://arcturus.resu.me/

It's not bad! And I'd love to get aj.resu.me if available :)

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#8

Post by karthikm » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:02 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #5

I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.

the page actually will show a couple of more tabs if you are signed in .. like the RSS reader, job aggregator

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#9

Post by atgm » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:52 AM UTC

karthikm wrote: post #8

iamdave wrote: post #5

I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.

the page actually will show a couple of more tabs if you are signed in .. like the RSS reader, job aggregator

I think that would-be users should be shown a comprehensive experience without having to sign in; if things don't work when they first go to the site, then they probably won't go back...

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

#10

Post by karthikm » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:55 AM UTC

atgm wrote: post #9

karthikm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the page actually will show a couple of more tabs if you are signed in .. like the RSS reader, job aggregator

I think that would-be users should be shown a comprehensive experience without having to sign in; if things don't work when they first go to the site, then they probably won't go back...

some features are specific to the users and hence they need to sign in .. would a demo video work instead?