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New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: We created custom domains for read.cv with Vercel edge functions"

_andychung — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:57:22 +0000

A lot of people like to think of us as a complete LinkedIn replacement, which is a bit far fetched given our 2 person team. I like to think of LinkedIn as a way to be found and indexed by a massive search engine, and Read.cv as your friendly profile you would want to share with recruiters or as the link in your bio. Custom domains make your profile even more professional to share too!

We also have a great tight knit community of creatives who aren't into the LinkedIn influencer posts — so you might find some chill new people to connect with as well!

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: We created custom domains for read.cv with Vercel edge functions"

_andychung — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:43:48 +0000

Awhile back we shared a new professional platform we'd created called Read.cv — a super minimalist profile with your work history, projects, and case studies. A lot of people had been asking for custom domains to turn their profile into a personal homepage. Well today we are happy to launch personal domains, complete with custom typography and themes!

We used Vercel's new Edge Functions to make the routing work seamlessly in our web app, while under the hood it's actually using Cloudflare Workers to do middleware processing and routing at the edge layer. Because all this routing happens at the edge layer before requests even make it to our web app, we get features like bundle splitting, authentication and caching at the per domain level, and all for free. The end result is that we can build a web app without worrying about all the hairy details: we can re-use components from our main site in custom domains, static resources correctly load from custom domains rather than our main site, and all the routing logic is cached at the edge layer for fast handling.

Let us know if you try out custom domains, and happy to answer any questions about the feature!

Show HN: We created custom domains for read.cv with Vercel edge functions

_andychung — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://read.cv/support/Q00tMVbWBlA32mb9IKNn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096239

Points: 29

# Comments: 4

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 04:44:37 +0000

Ahh thank you so much!

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:47:12 +0000

Awesome to hear! Initially we only offered profiles and pages so people would only really log on to update when they had accomplished something new or were job hunting. With the front page we feel like there are more opportunities to come back and engage with the community, especially if you're a hiring manager for your team.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:16:11 +0000

I wanted to give a little update on read.cv since I originally posted this as a side project back in January. I'm excited to say the original post gave me the confidence to take this from a side project to a full time commitment. Two friends have joined the team and we've built a whole bunch of new stuff!

* Pages — a self publishing tool that allows you to create case studies in the context of your profile. You may have seen this in action on Daring Fireball's post about the Chrome Home design this week.

* Front Page — a community hub showcasing the best work from around the platform.

* Replies — Privately kick off a conversation from any experience, page, or status update. No likes or comments on the platform.

* Following — keep up to date with friends and collaborators. No follower vanity metrics.

Just wanted to say thanks for the push to take this further. Would love to hear what you think about the updates!

Show HN: We kept making an alternative platform for professional profiles

_andychung — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://read.cv/cv/B3N1GcOjWapaIZy8pNkV

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27985561

Points: 26

# Comments: 7

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:16:26 +0000

Cool this is super helpful, thank you!

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:58:39 +0000

I tried doing it through 101domain.com and couldn't because I didn't have a registered business in Cape Verde. I tried again using Marcaria.com and they handled the registration process and I haven't had any issues so far.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:50:11 +0000

This makes total sense, will look into more ways to export your data.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:49:18 +0000

For sure! I actually can't wait to remove my profile from the homepage completely, there are lots of great ones now.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:44:28 +0000

Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning.

As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the feedback on!

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:40:11 +0000

Thank you! It started as a side project but I have a few ideas on how to turn this into something a bit more real.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:37:33 +0000

Haha yup

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:29:47 +0000

For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even use as a personal website.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:24:16 +0000

Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how to better support this.

In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs section or something.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:15:46 +0000

The authentication emails are sent by Firebase.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:14:42 +0000

For sure, have heard this feedback before especially from people who would like to hide their profile from their current employer.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:13:25 +0000

I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make it easier for people would be great.

New comment by _andychung in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

_andychung — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:09:10 +0000

Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.