Introducing the all-new Reactive Resume, the free and open-source resume builder you know and love!
This little side project of mine launched all the way back in 2020-2021, at the height of the pandemic, and while it was good timing back then, it wouldn't have lasted this long if there wasn't a real need for a decent product.
Since then, Reactive Resume has helped almost 1 million users create resumes, helped them get the careers they wanted, helped students jump-start their applications.
This new version has been in the making for months, I try to get time to work on it whenever there's a weekend, whenever I can physically pull an all-nighter after work. It's a culmination of everything I've learned over the years, fixing all the bugs and feature requests I've gotten through GitHub and my emails.
For those of you who are unaware of this project, and nor should you be, Reactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder that focuses on completely free and untethered access to a tool everyone needs at some point in their life, without giving up your privacy and money. In a nutshell, it’s just a resume builder, nothing fancy, but no corners have been cut in providing the best user experience possible for the end user.
Here are some features I thought were worth highlighting:
- Great for single page or multi-page resumes (this was an issue in the last version, happy to announce that it should work as expected now)
- Easier self-hosting with less reliance on other services.
- Immensely better documentation, to help guide users on how to use the project, or how to self-host on their server.
- There’s some AI in there too, where you bring your own key, no subscriptions or paywalls.
- Improved account security using 2FA or Passkeys, also add your own SSO provider (not an enterprise feature anymore)
- 12 resume templates, and many more to come. If you know React/Tailwind CSS, it’s very easy to build you own templates as well. Also supports Custom CSS, so you can make any template look exactly the way you like it to.
- Available in multiple languages, or theoretically it could be. If you know a second language and would love to help contribute translations, please head over to the docs to learn more.
- Did I mention it’s free?
Just before I sign off, this release and all the previous years of updates and uptime wouldn’t have been possible without the insanely amazing people who have chosen to donate whatever they could to help keep the project alive and kicking. I really want to give a huge thanks and shout out to these folks who inspire me everyday.
I sincerely hope you enjoy using the brand new edition of Reactive Resume almost as much as I had fun building it.
https://rxresu.me will be back online very shortly after some server maintenance.
Regards,
@amruthpillai