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Sorry to hear about your attack.
It reminded me of Cory from Strangeparts, he had a concussion and seems to be handling it quite well, even recovering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y. Hope it can help you somehow.
Hope you best of luck with whatever you decide to pursue.
Same here! I even did a little tool to generate random palettes to get nice combinations for my sketches.
I highly recommend you check Michael Lynch's blog. He built a hardware product and documented his progress from the very start on his newsletter: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot.
It has been pretty fascinating for me in comparison to al the digital product stuff I'm used to.
Great questions! I thought a lot about those at the time, I didn't felt comfortable sitting on a pile of data waiting for an attacker to try get it. So this is what I did:
Once I decided I was going to kill the project, I removed the option to become a paying customer to not get more, waited for the last of my paying customers period to finish (it was a yearly subscription). And released an update that made the app work strictly locally, user data does not reach my server (edit: there is no server anymore) and stays in the user's browser (it works like that now).
Kept the data for a couple of weeks in case anyone wanted to recover it to help them use it with in the new "local" version, but enventually no one did, so finally I deleted my db. So right now I have no access whatsoever to that data.
I launched ByteVitae (https://bytevitae.com/) a couple of years ago, got a decent launch here and in Product Hunt, a bunch of users the first days ~3500 and a steady influx of users over the following months. I didn't know how to convert most of those users to clients, didn't talk to them, lost all interest after the initial launch and moved on after an amazing -26€ in benefits :P
I learned so many things and was such a fruitful ride that for me it is far from a failure. But on the business side, definetly a complete failure!
Even wrote a little post mortem at the time: https://vilva.io/blog/1-year-of-building-reflections.
Lesson learned: Talk to your users. Don't neglect the business/marketing side, specially if you are a techie who loves to code. Talk to your users. It is a marathon run, forget about the overnight millionare launchs, the launch is the "easy" part, growing steady from there is the real challenge. Talk to your users!!
Cool! In Spain we have a (IMO) much easier to use site: https://soydetemporada.es
Beautiful
There is this guy who is pretty well known in the spanish dev community:
https://www.xataka.com/otros/soy-ciego-nacimiento-asi-mi-tra...
He often talks at conferences about his situation and setup, so if you understand spanish you might be able to find quite a lot on this. Also it might be worth a shot contacting him for more info.
Best of luck with your new adventure.
Sure, you can find the repo in the site, here it is: https://github.com/vilvadot/money-is-time/
Only explicitily asks for storage access to set a flag when the extension is enabled and to save the hourly rate.
It does have access to execute the code on amazon too, which basically is reading info from html and inject another html node.
Hi everyone, author here! I just released this project I made for fun for myself, I had the idea in my mind for forever now and wanted to try my best at building and extension over it. So here it is. Hope you like it and contribute!
Right now it only supports Amazon since it is the site I use the most, but it is pretty trivial to add more shops.
BTW, I just searched for myself on the Chrome Store and found a surprisingly identical extension O_o. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-is-money/oopp... it seems it's more mature than mine, so here you have another option!
That is a problem I had on an unrelated project with image based PDFs. With this one I wanted to avoid that, if you check the output, it is text 100% selectable (and even some interactive elements). So hopefully it avoids that problem.
Surely not as easy to parse as something done explicitly for that, but hopefully good enough.
Such good insights in your post! thanks for sharing your past experience.
Thanks for sharing, that is indeed a quite complex resume, quite a challenge to keep it programatically.
Actually your same experience is what took me to make this, the pain of having to open Illustrator to edit the resume once again. Atleast for the next time I got this. And thanks for the kind words :)
there is a sample on the landing page!
Wow, didn't think about that. I'm not familiar with so automated hiring processes but I guess that is a big concern.
Did you find out why? layout, text style? they need a specific template?
what do you mean?
Wow, that "Inbuencity" bug is a weird one O_o, just tried it myself and same happens. Don't even know how it is possible, something about the font maybe?
Open source represents open source contributions (aka repos).
Well that looks cool and apparently its spot on!
sorry, not currently. I should have added that option. By now please send an email to contact@bytevitae.com and I will delete it for you. Sorry for that.
Thank you cr0sh, that's great feedback.
Actually at first it was very evident $30/year, but I removed it in the last minute because it seemed like a suscription (which is not). Definetly going to make that thing stand out more.
Thanks, noting the bug :)
Thanks for the tip, some people seem to think the same, so that definetly goes into the TO-DO list.
Thanks for the love!
I designed the templates taking inspiration on what friends showed me, what found online as well as my previous resumes.
To be completely honest its the first time I see that website! But I can see how the black sidebar one looks similar, but they all use pretty common heavily used design patterns.
Except the repos, once you log in everything is editable by hand. You lose the speed boost, but you have the option yes :)
See below, there are templates without picture to chose from.
No sorry, I have no experience working with Latex
Completely see your point in the privacy aspect, but it is really difficult to offer a good user experience with a project like this without storing data. I don't even consider selling data as part of a business model for my projects but I understand that is opaque to the user and not everyone is like this.
On the second argument, I assume recruiters are seeing tons of resumes presented in the same package daily. I don't think this will affect negatively to the applicants. Hopefully this starts becoming a problem and I get to work and design 100 more templates for variety :)
Yeah, Linkedin was planned, until I discovered they don't provide the profile via API unless you are an aproved developer :(
No, I'm not concerned at all with that! There is a full sample preview of each template once you login. I guess I need to put it in the landing to?
Thanks, didn't know about the SO one!
Did you try the tool? inside you can see a sample of all designs, or do you mean you would like to see them in the landing? something to keep in mind to update it.
Yeah, I'm with you on the bias with the pictures. I want to work on a way to customize a little bit (like removing picture, icons or changing the color accent) of designs before generating, but I have to think it out before building. That's why in the meantime I included a couple of designs without picture for people to use :D
BTW forgot to ask, in order to be able to present a resume in the way you find most relevant. Do you feel something missing that my tool might need?
Thanks. I guess it depends on what information each one presents on their resume then, but I see your point.
Yeah, while researchign for this I found it's what a lot of people tend to do, so don't worry :P
Other users (like me) tend to look for a more polished design than that of what MS word/Google Docs etc... offer, but it is perfectly normal, this use case might not be relevant for you.