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Roast my side project idea - AI resume generator
Hereās a small idea I recently had, and Iād like to run it by you before I develop it any further:
I need to submit a resume/CV/portfolio quite often (and I suppose, so do a lot of artists, designers, scientists, freelancers, open source contributors, ā¦), but keeping it up to date is tedious at best.
So the other day I came up with this thought:Ā The web actually knows best what Iāve been up to in the recent months/years.
I gave ChatGPT a few URLs to scrape, and asked it to write a short bio with XYZ word count in ABC style, and that worked sufficiently well that I thought it could also work as a micro-product.
Iām thinking a sort of link.tree low-barrier thing with a generous free tier and a ācreditā system to buy more variations/iterations/ā¦
WDYT?
I need to submit a resume/CV/portfolio quite often (and I suppose, so do a lot of artists, designers, scientists, freelancers, open source contributors, ā¦), but keeping it up to date is tedious at best.
So the other day I came up with this thought:Ā The web actually knows best what Iāve been up to in the recent months/years.
I gave ChatGPT a few URLs to scrape, and asked it to write a short bio with XYZ word count in ABC style, and that worked sufficiently well that I thought it could also work as a micro-product.
Iām thinking a sort of link.tree low-barrier thing with a generous free tier and a ācreditā system to buy more variations/iterations/ā¦
WDYT?
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Interesting idea if it kept being updated automatically once per month! I don't think I'd use it but I'm not in the target audience haha
Thanks! Yeah I also thought of that as an āupsellā opportunity. Like, once a month is free, once a week is a couple $ ā¦
I like the idea, I wonder if you can generate any revenue from it?
Maybe you could charge recruiters for access? That would be an interesting take.
š¤ actually not bad, though not what I had in mind initially.
And I think demand can be easily validated by doing a manual process first. Quite niche, yes, but thinking about how many indie makers, designers etc are out there with their own portfolio sitesā¦ why not have an external tool handle your āaboutā page?
I guess Iāll put up a simple intake form and show it around. Maybe some people submit it, then I can try producing resumes manually, then slowly start automating stuff around it
One thing that would be valuable for me that could lead more repeat usage is to tailor/fine tune the resume for a specific position (eg. highlighting more certain skills vs others)
Exactly! Focus, Style and structure would be the relevant variables