Resumegen
Productivity
resume builder
SHOW HN2017
227points
87comments
#127of 2,242 in 2017
Top 6%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good starting point for learning LaTeX
From 1 comment
Works great! Very nice as a "starting point" for further customization, for people like me who are still learning LaTeX. Comments: 1. The experience/research section is pretty…
ryandrake on HN
Handy for getting a basic resume quickly
From 2 comments
i write particularly bad resumes (as my colleagues have told me) and I find resume critiques dreadful. A tool like that produces the basic item is truly helpful.
mrcactu5 on HNtl;dr: it is a big form where you enter your personal details. The form is slidinated (pagination with slides). At the end, you get a button to copy some latex, which you are…
awalGarg on HN
Objections
Template too cramped
From 2 comments
Nice work!! Some thoughts: - For my taste the sections/fields are not flexible enough. There are a few big ones missing, that I have on my résumé or have seen on others. E.g.…
wnm on HNWorks great! Very nice as a "starting point" for further customization, for people like me who are still learning LaTeX. Comments: 1. The experience/research section is pretty…
ryandrake on HN
No way to write a job title
From 1 comment
EPIC FAIL! You just failed all your applications because of this poor template. Allow me to explain why... What is the single most important line in a resume? That's the job you…
user5994461 on HN
Cannot delete added fields
From 1 comment
Works great! Very nice as a "starting point" for further customization, for people like me who are still learning LaTeX. Comments: 1. The experience/research section is pretty…
ryandrake on HN
Does not escape # characters such as C#
From 1 comment
Should probably escape #'s (in the case of C#)
alexbanks on HN
Requests
Support custom sections
From 2 comments
This looks really nice - great to have a nice builder for the latex. Would be cool if it was possible to add your own sections. I've been collecting a few latex resume links for…
charlieegan3 on HNNice work!! Some thoughts: - For my taste the sections/fields are not flexible enough. There are a few big ones missing, that I have on my résumé or have seen on others. E.g.…
wnm on HN
Add sample output at the start
From 1 comment
nice work, some feedback: would be nice to have a sample output file at the beginning in order to see what you'd get at the end
peacetreefrog on HN
Allow deleting fields
From 2 comments
Works great! Very nice as a "starting point" for further customization, for people like me who are still learning LaTeX. Comments: 1. The experience/research section is pretty…
ryandrake on HNYeah, I wanted Jquery steps but couldn't make the sections expand downwards. There is no way to delete but Ill figure something out tonight along with a LinkedIn scraper.
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Export the tex file for source control
From 1 comment
Does the output include the tex file itself? The main reason I chose to use LaTeX for my C.V. aside from the obvious typesetting capabilities is how easy it is to edit and source…
almog on HN
Questions
Can the output be exported to PDF?
From 1 comment
robot? haha that's pretty cool What if you wanted to export this as PDF? Is that straight forward or no?
ge96 on HN
Why one page only?
From 1 comment
Just curious, why one page? It seems to compress a ton of information into a small area, which I would think makes it less appealing. If I were looking at the example resume, it…
Bedon292 on HN
Alternatives named
Overleaf resume templates
From 2 comments
I've been using this for a few years for my resume since learning LaTex in college. Online LaTex editor includes previews of documents as you work.…
ltnately on HNOverleaf has an entire section on resume templates but I just picked my favorite.
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Awesome-CV and cv-boilerplate LaTeX resumes
From 1 comment
This looks really nice - great to have a nice builder for the latex. Would be cool if it was possible to add your own sections. I've been collecting a few latex resume links for…
charlieegan3 on HN
ProgrammerCV
From 1 comment
Nice work!! Some thoughts: - For my taste the sections/fields are not flexible enough. There are a few big ones missing, that I have on my résumé or have seen on others. E.g.…
wnm on HN