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!
curios to see how well a PDF resume from this fares thru the various ATS’s that are out there
Totally what I was looking for will try imbed into my website.
Please do let me know how it goes, and if there’s anything I can do to make the process more simpler :)
Thanks mate, might try add it into my docker website, https://github.com/buildwithdan/flask-portfolio
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?
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.
Depending on the country, adding an image to your resume is still pretty standard.
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.
GIT is literally build for that.
I will definitely look into the possibility of having this on, although I suspect my database would blow up if I were to implement this on the cloud.
Downvote me to the moon: Selfhosting this is still entirely more convoluted than I feel it should need to be.
I did what I could man. I’m just one guy, a front-end guy even. I even made an announcement at the top of my GitHub readme looking for dev-ops or backend dev to help me make the self-hosting process better, but even with a project as popular as this, nobody came to help. So naturally I picked up as much I could myself and did it.
I honestly don’t know how it can be made easier though. It’s just a single service now, which needs to speak to other services. But if you still feel it’s convoluted, fork the repo and help me make it better, teach me what good self-hosted apps are supposed to look like.
Really slick and personally helpful to sooo many people, what an insanely awesome project!
I’m quite new to self-hosting apps so it could be my mistake, but I can’t figure out how to solve the problem of “P1001: Can’t reach database server at” in postgres.
Do you have upgrade instructions for users who were running it with this image?
image: amruthpillai/reactive-resume:server-latest
Will it break if I just do a docker compose pull?
Yes, unfortunately it’s not a straightforward upgrade as there are a lot of things changed since V3 to V4. What I’d suggest is to extract or export your resume json from your running V3 instance and store it locally. Once you have v4 running, simply import the JSON back into the app.
Also it should be pointed out that the name of the image tag has changed. There is no client and server anymore, but just latest.
After a first glance, I can’t see info about deployment in the docs: https://docs.rxresu.me/ and no docker-compsoe.yml in the repo either: https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/
Do you have a link to the self-deployment instructions or a compose file please?
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).
Found it! Thanks.
That guy has too much time on his hands. Get a job (and shave off those sideburns), hippy! /s
What’s the difference between a résumé and a CV and can this do both?
I have always assumed that the two words mean the same but as specific to a region. There’s no reason why you can’t make your resume look like the way you want it to, especially because you can create custom sections that pertain to your industry.
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!
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
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.
We need a good working Unraid template for this 🙏🏻🧐
This is great! Any plans to update the unraid template? Pretty please :)
Hi u/AmruthPillai, I’ve been using Rxresume for a few years now and have got to say that I love it. However, I have hit a small snag; I use the hosted version (rxresu.me) and now that it’s updated to v4, the resume it’s imported has lost its formatting and is missing a lot of info. Is there a way to access the v3 version again so I can export all my resumes and selfhost v3?