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·
    1 year ago

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

  • JustDalek_@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

  • hash004@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • ovizii@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t have the time to spin it up locally so I took a look at your hosted version and noticed there’s no custom CSS section. Is this missing in the self-hosted version too? If so, I’ll stay with my still working v3.

    Also, do you have any links for adapting/creating my own template? Some issues are difficult to fix with CSS only.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve kept the Custom CSS section dormant for now because the templates themselves aren’t too well adapted with custom classes/IDs etc to correctly work with custom CSS. I’ve kept it off for a later release until I can do it properly, but it’ll definitely be a feature soon.

      As for the issues you can’t fix with CSS, I’m afraid the only way is to build the project locally and develop a template of your own, which isn’t too difficult if you know TailwindCSS. I plan on writing a guide for this as well.

  • blaine07@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    That guy has too much time on his hands. Get a job (and shave off those sideburns), hippy! /s

  • NovelMindless@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have used this in the past and was very good. Just creating a new CV now and it totally locked up on me but thats probably down to firefox.

    Whilst working my way through the skills section, its quite annoying that you cant drag the skills into order/there own place. I’ve had to delete and add again on quite a few occasions.

    Skills again, would be nice to have an option of just entering text or skills separated by the commas.

  • konraddo@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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.

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Is there a big difference from the old layout to the new one? I didn’t have a side by side comparison, but I tried to make the new templates a bit more flexible for custom CSS (hoping to introduce that feature soon).

      Is there anything specific you’d like me to fix soon?

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • centomila@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Perfect timing. I quit just today :D

    Just installed with docker with this and it works great. https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/blob/main/tools/compose/simple.yml

    After inserting a key created on https://platform.openai.com/api-keys , I tried the GPT functionality, but I always receive an error in a toast notification

    404 This is a chat model and not supported in the v1/completions endpoint. Did you mean to use v1/chat/completions?

    Also, does it utilize GPT-3.5 or GPT-4

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I believe they have made some changes to the OpenAI API since I last did the integration, will look into this tomorrow. The model is set to use gpt-3.5-turbo, but I would soon implement a dropdown to allow the user to select a model from a list.