Hey r/selfhosted, get ready to craft your story like never before!

I’m thrilled to announce that Reactive Resume has just launched its latest version, and it’s a game-changer in the resume-building space (at least, I’d like to think so).

Here’s a glimpse of some of the new features:

  • A sleek, polished user interface that makes navigation a breeze.
  • Faster PDF generation to get your resume out there quicker.
  • Integration with OpenAI for smarter assistance.
  • Brand new, highly customisable templates to fit your unique style.
  • Comprehensive documentation with user-friendly guides.
  • Enhanced security with two-factor authentication.
  • Available in multiple languages, contributed by the community.
  • Quality of life features such as locking resumes, adding personal notes to resumes, tracking views and downloads on your public resume etc.

The best part? It’s 100% free, forever! No ads, no user tracking, just pure resume-building bliss. Plus, for the tech-savvy, it’s also open-source on GitHub and self-hostable through Docker, something special just for this community.

Ready to give it a spin?
You can visit the website on https://rxresu.me, sure. But you’re on r/selfhosted, so you’re probably more interested in the “how to host it myself” part of the launch. The link to the repository is right here: https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/

Self-hosting Reactive Resume is super simple, compared to the nightmare it was in earlier versions having to ensure multiple services are communicating alright. You can check the GitHub repo (under tools/compose for many docker compose examples of how the project could be set up).

I’m excited to see how you make the most of it!

  • sexyshingle@alien.topBEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    curios to see how well a PDF resume from this fares thru the various ATS’s that are out there

  • JustDalek_@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I cheeked out the homepage and saw a photo on the header. Shouldn’t you discourage use of an image on a resume?

    doesn’t that put some people at risk to racial bias?

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Entirely up to the user. All of the templates adapt depending on whether there’s a picture or not, so no one’s experience is hindered. But it’s true, it is discouraged in some regions, for good reason, but also expected in many other regions or industries.

    • p0op@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Depending on the country, adding an image to your resume is still pretty standard.

  • hash004@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    This looks really nice. A really good feature to have would be able to have version history of the resume so I can revert or just see how the resume has changed over time.

  • blaine07@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Downvote me to the moon: Selfhosting this is still entirely more convoluted than I feel it should need to be.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I did what I could man. I’m just one guy, a front-end guy even. I even made an announcement at the top of my GitHub readme looking for dev-ops or backend dev to help me make the self-hosting process better, but even with a project as popular as this, nobody came to help. So naturally I picked up as much I could myself and did it.

      I honestly don’t know how it can be made easier though. It’s just a single service now, which needs to speak to other services. But if you still feel it’s convoluted, fork the repo and help me make it better, teach me what good self-hosted apps are supposed to look like.

  • konraddo@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m quite new to self-hosting apps so it could be my mistake, but I can’t figure out how to solve the problem of “P1001: Can’t reach database server at” in postgres.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Is there a big difference from the old layout to the new one? I didn’t have a side by side comparison, but I tried to make the new templates a bit more flexible for custom CSS (hoping to introduce that feature soon).

      Is there anything specific you’d like me to fix soon?

  • Marcosaurios@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Damn it that’s awesome! A few weeks ago I was thinking to build something similar, glad you take the lead! Will give it a go and share my experience!

  • Muizaz88@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I must be more of a noob than I initially realised. I simply can’t get this to work. Is there a video tutorial anywhere yet? Thank you in advance!

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m current taking a short break cause I’ve been working on this for more than a few months. Will be back soon with product guides, video tutorials and everything soon.

  • NovelMindless@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have used this in the past and was very good. Just creating a new CV now and it totally locked up on me but thats probably down to firefox.

    Whilst working my way through the skills section, its quite annoying that you cant drag the skills into order/there own place. I’ve had to delete and add again on quite a few occasions.

    Skills again, would be nice to have an option of just entering text or skills separated by the commas.

  • AnotherMiggy@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ll be setting this up for sure as I was looking for something like this. Thanks for making this!

  • uekiamir@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Why does it need authentication? In fact, why need a backend at all and not just fully client-side?

    • DrH0rrible@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      So it seems that right now it’s not a separate project for the self-hosted version of this and the one that he offers online. So there’s a lot of stuff that it’s not really needed for a one-person cv display.