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.

  • ektorasdj@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hello! Thank you for this great app. Just a quick question, how do so i disable new sign ups? (I have disabled github and google env variables but when trying to use the old variables PUBLIC_FLAG_DISABLE_SIGNUPS it doesn’t work for email_auths).

    • AmruthPillai@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a new env (described in the compose file also) called DISABLE_EMAIL_AUTH which would disable all email flows (login/register). If you need to allow email login but disable registration, that’s not really a feature yet, but please raise an issue on GitHub so I can track it. Will implement it as soon as I can.

      • ektorasdj@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for the quick response ! Yes thats what i want!

        I will raise it on Github.

        Have a nice day!

  • AnotherMiggy@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be setting this up for sure as I was looking for something like this. Thanks for making this!

  • NovelMindless@alien.top
    BEnglish
    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.

  • Ruuddie@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Really great tool, thanks! I accidentally started of with a wrong old docker container, that wasn’t v4. It did have some issues, that are fixed in v4 now, so that’s great!

    I really love the old ‘Onyx’ layout though. The ovals that contain ‘skills’ and ‘hobbies’ make it look so clean. I can’t find the same layout in the new v4.

  • Moehrenstein@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is the github/google part at the end necessary or can it get commented out for testing? (Tried to spin up simple.yml with them commented out and had no luck.)

  • uekiamir@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Why does it need authentication? In fact, why need a backend at all and not just fully client-side?

    • DrH0rrible@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So it seems that right now it’s not a separate project for the self-hosted version of this and the one that he offers online. So there’s a lot of stuff that it’s not really needed for a one-person cv display.

  • ajnerd@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is so cool. I’m excited to set this up on Docker, but I couldn’t find the Docker Compose or installation instructions on your page. Any chance you could point me in the right direction? Thanks a bunch!