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Eric Willis

CakeResume v2 - Online Resume Builder - Making your resume a piece of cake

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Drag and drop resume snippets to build an impressive online resume in minutes.

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Trantor Liu
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! I am the founder of CakeResume. I built the site to solve my own problem - I built some websites and apps before, and wanted to create a page to showcase my projects. But I couldn't find a tool that can help me build this page easily without content restrictions. So I built the website by myself. CakeResume is more than a resume, it's a hybrid of a traditional resume and a personal website. It helps you introduce yourself in the way you prefer. By the drag-and-drop editor, I make sure everyone can create an unique and vivid self introduction. Hope you like it. Thank you! Best, Trantor
Nader
@trantorliu It sounds great! Before I go exploring, is a premium service?
Trantor Liu
Maker
@nadeburg It's basically free. You can pay $9.99 to buy premium resume snippets, or invite 2 friends to join to get them for free. Besides that, you can create CakeResume Career Pages (beta) for free right now - https://www.cakeresume.com/caree...
Trantor Liu
Maker
@nadeburg However, with 30+ free snippets, you can make a great one :D
jan van iperen
@trantorliu Why oh why not a login with LinkedIn which already fills out most of the fields?
David Feng
@trantorliu The problem I have is many relatives who ask me to polish up their resumes, either for themselves or their son/daughter. Personally I haven't updated my resume in years but this is definitely going to make it easier for me to say no to the relatives :) Awesome!
Gio Logist
I have a love / hate relationship with this product right now. I spent 2 hours today helping my girlfriend design her resume in Photoshop. 1 hour later, I get on PH and see this. Haha this is great, good job guys.
Trantor Liu
Maker
@giologist Thank you for the kind words haha! Hope CakeResume will help you!
Richard kim
I organized a hackathon recently where we required resumes, so we included links to resume generators like EnhanceCV. I got a lot of messages from recruiters who really, really disliked these resumes. Here's what we learned 1) Do not use an image. Companies are actively trying to avoid being biased in the interview process and will toss out any resumes that readily indicate race or gender 2) In general, don't give space to graphical representations (e.g.: the timeline in the tutorial video). They're generally understood to be wasted space and using them may signal to the recruiter that you didn't have enough content to fill that space 3) Resume generators sometimes encourage you to include skills you're not proficient in (e.g.: 2/5 star proficiency in java) for the sake of visual completeness. Do not include these.
Trantor Liu
Maker
@cwrichardkim Thank you for the advices! I know all these principles. But I'd like to change the nature of resume. Let machine filter keywords or qualifications, so you can share about something you really care on your resume. Resumes nowadays are less human, I'd like create a tool that inspire people to share their stories.
Richard kim
@trantorliu While I agree with that sentiment (resumes and the job application process are VERY broken), it's hard to justify doing something that is actively discouraged by recruiters. If recruiters throw out all resumes with photos, then it doesn't matter how good the generated resume is, it'll be thrown out Let me clarify by saying I still think this is a valuable product and I don't want this to come across as a criticism of your work! I just wanted to include some words of caution from my experience.
Patrick Thompson
@trantorliu The chance to tell your story is what the interview process is for. As @cwrichardkim mentioned, most companies do not want to be biased when looking for interviewees and putting a face to the resume doesn't help with that. With that said, your app is great, there are just certain things that I would not want to include, like my photo.
Trantor Liu
Maker
@neurohacked Thank you. I'll keep in mind. However, some countries don't have this constraint. Btw, I wonder why LinkedIn accepts photos?
Richard kim
@trantorliu linked in is primarily a network and secondarily an application platform that enables recruiters to do *further* research. Also, when you apply with linkedin, most website actually convert everything to plaintext for a variety of reasons (save space, consistent formatting, remove images). It's actually rather frustrating because after importing from LinkedIn you have to format the pain text that linkedin returned. Again, not criticizing the product, just words of caution
Bas Grasmayer
This is great. Slightly disappointed that this doesn't turn my CV into an actual cake though...
Trantor Liu
Maker
@basgras Sorry about that XD We will consider introducing this service on fool's day.
Johan
Printing social logos with links on them isn't very convenient :(
Trantor Liu
Maker
@bob6664569 I see. Thank you, let me think how to fix it. However, right now you can delete the icons if you don't need them :)
Johan
@trantorliu Thanks for the reply. Another must-have feature to me, would be to connect with LinkedIn, and have my resume pre-filled (combined with the suggestion of @rahulr047, that would be perfect ! :)
Trantor Liu
Maker
@bob6664569 @rahulr047 Got it!! I'll try :) Thank you guys.
Rahul Ramchand
YOU BASTARDS. Where were you guys when I needed you two weeks ago? :( Time to kill my useless EnhanCV subscription. Ugh.
Rahul Ramchand
Small tip btw. I think you should have some ready made templates (also) to start from rather than a blank slate - once I can see how beautiful it can appear visually, I'm much more into it. :)
Trantor Liu
Maker
@rahulr047 Sorry about that XD
Trantor Liu
Maker
@rahulr047 actually, we have some example, but they were made by Taiwan users and are in Chinese - https://www.cakeresume.com/resumes You can submit your resume to us, and we'll feature and share it!
Rahul Ramchand
@trantorliu Cool! Will try to do it this week, little busy today haha. One fundamental problem with the templates you have is even though they are visually appealing, they aren't really super professional. They are probably best for UX/UI/Visual designers. Making resumes sucks. I would say have standard templates for Developers, Product Managers, Digital Marketers, Designers. You can basically rip these off from your competitors. The drawback with the other tools I have used is customizability, which you guys have. (Enhancv doesn't let me bold font like wtf)
kevoh
I can't see if CakeResume has an embedding feature? Having that would be killer! Embedding resumes on personal websites 🤑
Trantor Liu
Maker
@kevinohlsson Good idea!! I'll add this feature soon. Thank you :)
Trantor Liu
Maker
@kevinohlsson Now you can add CakeResume buttons/badges to your personal website :)
Holly
Wow! Have watched CakeResume grow from the early stages but this is turning into a really powerful tool! Next time someone asks for CV help, I know where to send them. 😄
Trantor Liu
Maker
@taispy Thank you Holly :)
Brent Currie
I was honestly hoping this was a piece of cake that had my resume printed on. I got really excited there for a second.
Emmanuel B. Lepage
Look very nice, and so not expensive as Enhancy shown on my righ tab here! For a flat 9$ you can download more templates who look great and as good as a fancy blog site. On the downside, you can't change fonts so it's not all personal. My dream would be to populate directly the content with my LinkedIn page, as I already signed in with it. Let's wait and see :)
Trantor Liu
Maker
@emmanuel_b_lepage You cant change fonts! Select text and you'll see a formatting toolbar. We will support more font in the future.
Trantor Liu
Maker
@emmanuel_b_lepage We launched the LinkedIn import feature! Please take a look :) https://medium.com/@esambino/tur...
David Chang
Good job!
Surjith S M
Great! One Suggestion: Don't ask to Signup first. Let users try your product first and ask them to signup when they want to SAVE or PUBLISH. ~Surjith
Trantor Liu
Maker
@surjithctly I did receive the same feedback from other on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ite... Will think about thins. Thank you!
Rohan Agarwal

I tried several resume builders online. But this one is the best. Its customisable and simple at the same time.

Pros:

Fast, Simple and Elegant.

Cons:

None I can think of right now

David Tseng
Easy, fast and nice looking. This is how you make your awesome resume!
Tharaka Wijebandara
Looks very promising! Definitely solves a painful problem in job hunting.
Sean Geraghty
Congrats on the launch guys! I remember spending ages trying to plan out my CV and a tool like this would've been a saviour! I've sent it out to my friends so hopefully they can get a lot of use out of it!
Luc Hancock
Wow, this looks really cool. Eager to try it out!
Wellington Hsu
This is some good cake!
Adam Marx
This is kinda exactly what I was looking for today for a friend! Thanks Trantor, great hunt Eric!
Desmond Duggan
Very pretty. I would put this on my website, but not submit to a job. Recruiters generally prefer to-the-point resumes. Uniqueness is actually a pain in the butt unless it drastically improves readability.