Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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3 years ago

Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes.

Top highlights of the resume builder are:

1. Real time UI update as you type

2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever

3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access

4. Support import from existing resume PDF

The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses (https://www.open-resume.com/resume-parser).

I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all.

Home Page: https://open-resume.com

Github Repo: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume

Product Hunt: https://producthunt.com/posts/openresume

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