[gregdoesit]

I happen to be writing a book about writing a good developer resume - from the viewpoint of Google, Facebook, Netflix Uber and other tech company hiring managers and technical recruiters as coauthors and reviewers [1]. The book is in beta and I've not advertised it beyond one or two posts, and it's made over $2,500 in a month. So there is definitely some demand here, though I cannot tell how much.

The resume templates you have on site is pretty much the same, somewhat generic ones that profitable resume building sites like resume.io, EnhanCV or VisualCV have. They are not the best templates for hiring managers in tech - even though some candidates will be happy to pay for them, as they think it looks professional. Don't get me wrong: they will work okay, but there are far better ones, purely for optimizing for hiring managers.

Congrats on the sale, but if you are serious about the "resume for data scientists" direction, you might want to think about the market size, and if this what you want to do. All the resume services I know of cater for a much larger audience to make a profit - and, admittedly, this is one of their weakens.

On your site, right now, there seems to be little evidence why these resumes would have an advantage over e.g. the default Google Docs Serif or Swiss resume templates (which, the Minimalist looks very similar to). Selling one-off resumes might not be a fantastic business, or at least it would be a very one-sided marketplace. As someone else was suggesting, taking it a step further, and venture into you also connecting vetted data scientists with companies.

[1] https://thetechresume.com/

[rileyt]

At Standard Resume, we worked with hiring managers from several top tech companies and professional designers to make our templates that have been used by over 100,000 people. There are many factors that go into designing resumes, but the most important is always readability. If it's isn't easy to scan and read the resume, nothing else matters. The good news is that there is plenty of research behind text readability that can be applied to resumes. Having proper line spacing and adequate vertical white space are two of the most important.

I'm curious what you think of our tea plates, based on your personal research. https://standardresume.co/