Would you use a resume generator or API for your portfolio website?
My tools: https://gitconnected.com
The more I've grown as an Indie Hacker, the more I realize how important it is to solve our own problems. On that note, things I find very painful for making steps in my career:
- Maintaining a resume
- Maintaining a portfolio website
Do you also have this pain? Would you use the tools I built to - why or why not?
I have actually had the same idea. A single source of truth for my experience data. I currently use GitHub pages, Jekyll, and a markdown file. I love the idea of having experience captured in a structured format and displayed on a website with styling. I have also used CSS to hide certain things when printing. The web page looks like a real portfolio but prints like a resume. I've given this template to friends as well. Having a service like yours would be really great to have, especially if you are not charging :)
https://www.schaeferzone.net
Thanks for sharing! That looks fantastic and is very similar to what I had in mind.
I won't be charging ever :) In fact, I'm hoping to open source most of the code so we can have a community of tools built around it if there is enough interest. Is contributing to projects in this area something that interests you, either by contributing a theme or to the tools themselves?
Yes! Absolutely! I'll be honest and say that I am not a front end developer, so creating things would not be in my wheelhouse. However, working on some back end code would be right up my alley.
Awesome! I'll keep you updated on it. I'm trying to gauge if there is enough interest and once I feel confident, I'll move forward with it.
Challenges of being a solo founder is never feeling like you have enough time lol
For a very similar purpose I created a complete Github storage based resume/portfolio site https://Stringify.me
I thought its very easy, just fork it and modify your details and done. I got lots of visitors but very few created profiles(currently only 49 forks). I don't know if there is really any market for that.
Interesting - I actually had a friend who suggested something to what you've built. I just shared this with him.
Is your thought that this would replace portfolio websites or be a sort of additional home page for a developer?
My thoughts were to have a simple developer portfolio which can be directly modified using github repository. If devs want a dedicated portfolio they can go for carrd.co etc. I thought we can use github repo as a data storage and we don't need a web server etc. It was mainly intended for techies and people who are aware of git.
I've had this idea before, and would definitely use it if the product were solid. I most recently used Resume.io, but I didn't like the limited customization. They have some pretty nice formats/templates to use, but I couldn't manipulate the spacing, so I wasn't able to fit in all of the content that I wanted. I've only been in the industry for 5 years, so I can only imagine someone with more experience would really find an issue with that.
Thanks for sharing @arc4randall that's really helpful. Right now my tools are a little limited while I'm getting feedback, but my hope is to open source it and also expose some customization. Since I'm building for developers, I want to provide the tools so that they can have fine-grained control over the CSS so they can make resume pixel perfect and also share templates with the community.