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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Please do let me know how it goes, and if there’s anything I can do to make the process more simpler :)

  • Ruuddie@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Looks really great, thanks!

    I can’t find a way to reorder items within Work Experience, Educations, etc. So if I get some new certification, it seems I have to fill in everything again since I can only add new ones at the bottom and I want to put the latest one on top. Or am I doing something wrong?

    Also, it would be great if you could add a date to the certifications. That way you can show how long you’ve been certified for the specific skill.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months 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.

  • Theon@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Whoa, this looks awesome. I’ve been using https://read.cv but it’s got way less features, and it also seems they’ve started to pivot more and more into being a kind of a social network which I’m not particularly interested in.

    The only thing I’m kind of worried about is that this looks somewhat heavy for a single-user instance? Like, I don’t probably need 2FA or Sentry or even SMTP for password resets. Still though, will try!

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      SMTP is optional, so is Sentry. If you don’t include the env variable, the module isn’t loaded in the app itself.

      As for 2FA, it was just a few bits of code, so it adds almost zero weight to the instance. The project is very much catered to being self-hosted and meant for a single person to use. The rest are just nice features to have on a cloud instance, but they don’t add any overhead to the server.

  • 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!

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      No, thank you! And please do let me know how your self-hosting experience was. If there’s anything I can do to simplify the process, happy to!

  • 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?

  • ajnerd@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months 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!