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Show HN: Simple and fast resume document generation with AI

by prodtorok on 5/22/24, 7:11 PM with 44 comments

• by prodtorok on 5/22/24, 7:11 PM

  Hey HN, my brother put a lot of effort into releasing his first app ever. Feel free to show some love on the product launch as well: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cvgist?utm_source=badge-fe...

  Feedback welcome of course!

• by salomonk_mur on 5/23/24, 5:06 AM

  It would be great if you had the option to get the data from LinkedIn. Typing everything out is a chore when it's already typed.out somewhere else.

• by lazerpants on 5/22/24, 9:15 PM

  I think I would be more likely to use this if it were a subscription model despite usually hating subscriptions.

  Looking for a job is a time bound process and I want to know that I have full access to the tools needed for the entire time it takes to find a job. During my most recent job search the 15 rewrites may have lasted me less than a week. I was using ChatGPT to tweak every resume I submitted.

• by albert_e on 5/23/24, 5:36 AM

  I like the price point - small enough for an individual to commit.

  Maybe you can try A/B testing to see if $2.99 does much better than $3.00 :)

• by throwaway115 on 5/23/24, 12:18 AM

  I mean this question with the best intentions:

  Can you share why you think this is a good idea and what do you think is the long term implications of AI-ifying resumes?

• by kaeruct on 5/23/24, 6:14 AM

  "sneek peak" should be "sneak peek"

  At least we know you didn't use ai for the copywriting :)

• by cxr on 5/22/24, 11:30 PM

  We shouldn't be writing résumés. We should be writing academic- or engineering-style six pagers where the target audience consists of your peers (and not anyone under the org's HR umbrella).

  This is why I think cover letters are maligned. They just shouldn't be mandatory. The best résumé is just a supercharged cover letter written by someone who actually gives a shit about what they're writing.