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!

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    10 months ago

    curios to see how well a PDF resume from this fares thru the various ATS’s that are out there

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    10 months 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.

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    10 months 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?

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      10 months 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.

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      10 months ago

      Depending on the country, adding an image to your resume is still pretty standard.

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    10 months ago

    Just finished building my new resume last night, now I’m waking up and I see this 😂 will definitely give it a try though!

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    10 months ago

    Perfect timing. I quit just today :D

    Just installed with docker with this and it works great. https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/blob/main/tools/compose/simple.yml

    After inserting a key created on https://platform.openai.com/api-keys , I tried the GPT functionality, but I always receive an error in a toast notification

    404 This is a chat model and not supported in the v1/completions endpoint. Did you mean to use v1/chat/completions?

    Also, does it utilize GPT-3.5 or GPT-4

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      10 months ago

      I believe they have made some changes to the OpenAI API since I last did the integration, will look into this tomorrow. The model is set to use gpt-3.5-turbo, but I would soon implement a dropdown to allow the user to select a model from a list.

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    10 months ago

    Is the PDF export fixed? I used some early versions where that feature didn’t work.

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    10 months ago

    After 5 years I got laid off and had to rebuild mine, using a template from a “professional” that I hired like 7-9 years ago. I’ll definitely use this to update mine!

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    10 months ago

    Is there new containers? I really want to run this but it historically has been a struggle their main instance seems solid but I kind of want to host it myself

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    10 months ago

    Looking into the github issues there are some problems with pagination where if you have a resume over a certain size you are SOL with formatting issues where you are forced to do insanely labour intensive makework to reformat the resume due to these limitations.

    see:

    https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/issues/899

    https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/issues/1297

    https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/issues/1402

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    10 months 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.)

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    10 months ago

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

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      10 months 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.

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    10 months 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.