Ask HN: Review our startup - resu.me

[karthikm]

resu.me (http://resu.me/) launched day before yesterday. Venturebeat covered our launch - http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/.

A short snippet about resu.me - resu.me is a career networking platform for college grads/young professionals. resu.me uses semantic web and machine learning to match users with jobs better and faster. resu.me provides a set of awesome tools (RSS reader, Portfolio Wall, Blog/code post tool, Job aggregation and some more) that lets one quickly build a meaningful resume/network and land that dream job. resu.me is the one resume to rule them all :)

We'd love to hear your feedback/thoughts/suggestions. As a token of gratitude to HNers, we'll give a 2 letter http://xy.resu.me/ account (FCFS, if not already taken). Just indicate your current resu.me URL and your desired 2 letter resu.me URL.

[iamdave]

I'd really like to see a sample completed resume, a lot of the "recently viewed" profiles are just empty from people signing up to see how it works, it seems.

[karthikm]

the page actually will show a couple of more tabs if you are signed in .. like the RSS reader, job aggregator

[atgm]

I think that would-be users should be shown a comprehensive experience without having to sign in; if things don't work when they first go to the site, then they probably won't go back...

[karthikm]

some features are specific to the users and hence they need to sign in .. would a demo video work instead?

[atgm]

If there are features that don't work without signing in, then I think that unregistered users shouldn't be able to see them UNTIL they sign in. You can list them in a feature list or something, but don't make them available as links for someone to click on and not see anything in.

For example, if you don't sign into facebook, you can't see a wall or profile or anything, but if you sign in, everything is available.

[karthikm]

thats how we have it now ..

[karthikm]

try this - http://nivedithaa.resu.me/

[iamdave]

Outstanding, thanks!

[avree]

You should consider some serious design review. You want to appeal to young users, and yet your website is reminiscent of a site from the early 2000's.

[karthikm]

We are working on a redesign. Would you have any recommendations for good designers/design houses?

[avree]

It depends on how much you're looking to spend, and where you are located.

Is it important for your graphic designer to be in-house? Good graphic designers I know charge up to $250/hour... Some of the more average ones will do $50-100/hour (especially if they like the idea.)

[karthikm]

Clickable links: http://resu.me/ and http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/25/resu-me/