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·
    1 year 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·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

  • hash004@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • NovelMindless@alien.top
    BEnglish
    1·
    11 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.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As reported by users who’ve sent me messages, but the whole section was meant to be taken sarcastically. Of course just the resume alone doesn’t do anything, it’s their skills. And personally, I’ve always wanted to have a logo cloud on my website, they have always looked cool to me.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    That guy has too much time on his hands. Get a job (and shave off those sideburns), hippy! /s

  • ajnerd@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is so cool. I’m excited to set this up on Docker, but I couldn’t find the Docker Compose or installation instructions on your page. Any chance you could point me in the right direction? Thanks a bunch!

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, unfortunately it’s not a straightforward upgrade as there are a lot of things changed since V3 to V4. What I’d suggest is to extract or export your resume json from your running V3 instance and store it locally. Once you have v4 running, simply import the JSON back into the app.

      Also it should be pointed out that the name of the image tag has changed. There is no client and server anymore, but just latest.

  • Marcosaurios@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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!