[fampi]

You will not like the path you are on.

- Google Namedropping is annoying like hell and i have seen it plenty of times. You will not feel great if you need to bring that up all the time - When i google for Resumes, resume.io is the first hit with ad and it cost 3$ - When i go to your website, i don't even know that it is a paid product - People really don't care that much about there resumes. I have seen probably 50 or more resumes. They just use the first thing on the internet or a latex template or a word template or they do it with a friend or with family or with a coworker - Your webui actually is as cumbersome as all the companies who require you to apply through their webforms. It doesn't matter how your resume looks when you are looking for a job in a bigger and more known company because you will have to type that stuff in some webform again - Recruiters exists and there are already recruiters who specizalize and are more edgy but you have to realise one big thing: You are entering this recruiter/hiring/resume market. That market is shitty for a reason.

At the end of the day, you are competing with customers which will never return. You have to build a product for this specific use case. If you are not in top 3 of Google Search results, they will not find you and they will not come back because they do not care for a resume after they got hired.

After they got hired and they might start using linkedin etc. recruiters will pester them and those recruiters will use their default templates and map whatever they are able to get into those default templates and no one cares.

I never cared about the layout much, i cared about the content.

[NovemberWhiskey]

>I never cared about the layout much, i cared about the content.

Let me amplify that further - often when I'm using a recruiter to assist with hiring (rather than direct sourcing), the recruiters will take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences.

[FabHK]

> take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences

In my experience, mostly they "normalise" CVs to remove contact information (and replace with their own).

[jacob_rezi]

this perspective is exactly right. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on our resume software - https://rezi.io

[fampi]

When would i use your website?

The reason is simple: I need a resume.

Now what irritates me a lot is simple: Why would you offer a subscription?

I think you offer a subscription because you would like to have a self sustainable business. You were looking for something small to build and want to make money. Subscription means easy money.

But thats just wrong. I'm finding your webpage in the moment i need a resume. I need it now, i need one pdf to send to companies and thats it. I don't need it monthly and you spend resources in building something which doesn't fit my need

So how to make it better?

Think who would like to use you: a) a student -> money is tight, never wrote a resume b) someone who worked before and probably has enough money

This person needs to see in a glance how much it costs to get that resume, how easy it is and how it looks.

Your funnel needs to do this.

You need to tell someone 'you will create a super simple and smart resume and you will be able to download it at the end by paying 5$'. You can extend it after that person has created the cv with 'look if you pay now 20$, you can update your resume for the next 8 month and we also have 3 additonal features you can use'.

Then make it savable so that if that person, really should not have forgotten you when searching for a new job again, they are able to go to your website and continue where they left of.

[jacob_rezi]

Good points. We see our churn being pretty high as one might predict.

This year we starting selling the software directly to universities (https://www.rezi.io/resume-management-system)once this picks up a bit more - we plan on making Rezi completely free for job seekers. But reviews are solid, I'm baised, but I think this is the best resume software in the world.

[y-c-o-m-b]

FYI - your site crashed my graphics driver the first time I tried visiting it. The second time it completely froze my PC and I had to cold reboot. Is it graphic intensive or something? I'm using a relatively old desktop PC, but in all these years, I've never had a website do that to my PC before. I'm using the latest FireFox with uBlock Origin btw - in case that helps you diagnose.

[rileyt]

Likewise with https://standardresume.co/. Our customers are primarily people working in the tech industry.

[fampi]

What i answerd to the person above fits your site very well.

In your specific case, the problem is, that basic means 'no pdf' which basically translates to 'useless'.

You have only a few seconds/minutes until a person will go to the next resume service page. They should not want to look for something else, they should think of buying a resume from you.

Build and advertise it as a one time deal. Tell people that they can configure it and build it and when they like it, they can buy it a the end.

This should be your first priority and when you have this fixed, then you can think about how to get those people back when they are looking for a new job in 2-4 years.

No one can upload a web profile. Thats not a good feature for someone who needs a resume.

If your web profile has a download button for the pdf version, then perhaps it could make sense but otherwise it doesn't.

You are trying to hard building a subscription service but this is a product service.

[untangle]

You use the term "ATS" above the fold (in the headline!) with no explanation as to what it is. I found this confusing and wondered why I would even want such a thing.