resumebuilder
The fastest way to build your tech resume.
27 days ago I decided to post resumebuilder.dev on hacker news. The post was a complete failure, zero comments and points, it didn't even managed to leave shownew.
To be honest I was a bit surprised by this, in my mind the product seemed like something that hackers news community would love. It is privacy-friendly, free and open-source after all, but I guess that wasn't the case. I am not sure why it didn't receive the attention I expected, perhaps the landing page is poor or the title was uninteresting. In any case I will be continuing the development because the feeling when my friends let me know they managed to get a job with my resume builder never gets old.
After building in dark for almost 2 years I was prepared to let the word know about my little side project. Both the landing and the builder page were polished to the point where I felt comfortable about posting about it to my LinkedIn network. I prepared a small but informative post on how my resume builder stands out in the crowd of similar products. The post was a great success and managed to gain over 10k impressions.
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Congratulations on the success of your LinkedIn post!
It sounds like you put a lot of time and effort into building and polishing your resume builder, and it's great to see that your hard work paid off.
I wish you the best of luck as you continue to grow and develop your product. Keep up the good work!
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congrats Amer! We are building a similiar products after my success in selling resume sleek template designs over gumroad. Domain name is nice and I think you will succeed way more if you target developers. Wish you a great success!
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Thank you Fatih!
I will be posting to hackernews and tech specific subreddits next, hopefully the traction there will be higher.
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Bought the domain name, created a GitHub repository, and started building the MVP. I had a rough idea in my head of how I wanted things to look and feel. My main focus from the get go was the builder page, this is where even the MVP version of the product had to shine.
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It happens with most of us. I was lucky that my side hustle Kody Tools ended up with 79 comments and 151 upvotes. On the other hand, I got only 6 upvotes at Product Hunt. No need to be disappointed as long as you have faith in your product.
Nice, congrats on the launch of Kody Tools. You're right, it would be nice to have a product go viral but success can come slowly as well.
Took a look at your product and have a few thoughts if you are open to them.
hope this helps with your development and good luck!