React Resume

About the product

React Resume is my first public product, and is a platform for helping users build and host their own personal resume website.

My goal was to make it as simple as possible, where users simply:

1. Sign up with OAuth (Github, Google, Facebook or LinkedIn)
2. Fill out their information in the live template editor
3. Choose their unique link ("your-name".reactresume.com)
4. View their site (hosted automatically at the chosen link)

A little background

Years ago, when I was trying to start my career in software development, I had a few small side projects, but realized I didn't really have a method to show them off to potential employers. That, and I found it painful to continually return to and update whatever was my last iteration of my standard document resume. I decided then that I'd rather be able to version control my resume, add new details/projects easily and provide a link to employers that would always resolve the most recent version. This was originally done with LaTex, but that was a bit of a pain as well.

I then figured, what better way to showcase my web development skills, than to display them directly as my resume? Everything that I'd like to show in a boring document could be shown better on a webpage, and proceeded to build the first version of my personal resume site. In doing so, I realized that it'd be a very small effort to turn it into a template for others to use and do the same.

Then to now

Over the years, the template has continued to be used by many but the 2 biggest questions I've been asked, is

1. How do I fill it out and host it?
2. What is a GitHub? How do I use this if I'm not a coder?

I've decided it's time to answer both with a single offering, a platform that anyone can use. Simply sign in, fill it out, and hit publish!