_andychung

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by _andychung 5y ago
A lot of people like to think of us as a complete LinkedIn replacement, which is a bit far fetched given our 2 person team. I like to think of LinkedIn as a way to be found and indexed by a massive search engine, and Read.cv as your friendl
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Show HN: We created custom domains for read.cv with Vercel edge functions(read.cv)
29 points by _andychung 5y ago|4 comments
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by _andychung 5y ago
Awhile back we shared a new professional platform we'd created called Read.cv — a super minimalist profile with your work history, projects, and case studies. A lot of people had been asking for custom domains to turn their profile int
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by _andychung 5y ago
Ahh thank you so much!
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by _andychung 5y ago
Awesome to hear! Initially we only offered profiles and pages so people would only really log on to update when they had accomplished something new or were job hunting. With the front page we feel like there are more opportunities to come b
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by _andychung 5y ago
I wanted to give a little update on read.cv since I originally posted this as a side project back in January. I'm excited to say the original post gave me the confidence to take this from a side project to a full time commitment. Two f
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Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles(read.cv)
26 points by _andychung 5y ago|7 comments
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by _andychung 6y ago
Cool this is super helpful, thank you!
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by _andychung 6y ago
I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration process and I haven't had any issues so far.
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by _andychung 6y ago
This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.
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by _andychung 6y ago
For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning. As for Quip I left in July but I'll
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by _andychung 6y ago
Thank you! It started as a side project but I have a few ideas on how to turn this into something a bit more real.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Haha yup
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by _andychung 6y ago
For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a f
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by _andychung 6y ago
Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how to better support this. In terms of monetization
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by _andychung 6y ago
The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.
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by _andychung 6y ago
For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from people who would like to hide their profile from their current employer.
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by _andychung 6y ago
I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make it easier for people would be great.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
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by _andychung 6y ago
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
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by _andychung 6y ago
I'm thinking of simply truncating collaborators after a certain number and offering the ability to open the full list in a modal or something.
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by _andychung 6y ago
I haven't implemented gestures to open the sidebar yet unfortunately - currently to close the sidebar on mobile either tap the right edge of the screen (the sliver of the detail), or tap a navigation item in the sidebar.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Have definitely been thinking about how to make sections more customizable as I'll never be able to make the defaults cover every use case. What bugs are you encountering?
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by _andychung 6y ago
You can rearrange the order of the sections using the grab handles in the editor. Let me know if that helps!
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by _andychung 6y ago
Thanks! I think pulling information from LinkedIn would be awesome and really reduce friction to creating an account.
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by _andychung 6y ago
Welp, sorry about that. Wonder if the .cv tld makes has anything to do with this...
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by _andychung 6y ago
Totally, on my to do list to redo the homepage with more abstracted product visuals!
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by _andychung 6y ago
Wow thank you! It was definitely a fun project.

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