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!

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    10 months ago

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

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    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.

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    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?

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      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.

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      10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

      I have always assumed that the two words mean the same but as specific to a region. There’s no reason why you can’t make your resume look like the way you want it to, especially because you can create custom sections that pertain to your industry.

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    10 months ago

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

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    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.

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    10 months ago

    Just finished building my new resume last night, now I’m waking up and I see this 😂 will definitely give it a try though!

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      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.

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    10 months ago

    This looks awesome. Is there any extra setup required for saving to PDF? I just spun it up with the simple.yml compose file and PDF save does not work.

    Haven’t looked into error logs at all yet because I’m busy, just wanted to check out the app quickly.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPB
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      10 months ago

      There’s absolutely no extra setup necessary, if all of the services are running correctly. The error might just be related to networking. You can check out the hosted instance and take it for a spin to validate the product, and then when you have the time debug those errors with self-hosting it. I personally use the docker swarm compose template to deploy the production application and it works right out of the box.

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    10 months ago

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

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      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.

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    10 months ago

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

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      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.