I did a Show HN [1] for Resumonk almost an year back and got some awesome feedback & suggestions. I am about to finish college now and planning to work full time on it along with a co-founder.<p>So far it has got 17000+ users and a small percentage of them purchased the original $9 PRO plan. Based on all the user feedback, we have now revamped the product and added some of the widely requested features like DOC format support in the new Premium plan.<p>We would love to get feedback of the community on how we can improve the offering and build a profitable business. Thanks!<p>[1] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934370" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934370</a>
Maybe you could expand your market by doing other kinds of quick online document design. Instead of resumes, businesses might like to be able to generate attractive proposals, marketing, or fund-raising documents. They would pay more than $9 for such a service too. When I looked at your site, that was the first thing I decided you could possibly help me with.<p>It seems like you could have a pretty broad offering by replacing the templating functionality of MS Word for various documents. You can compete both on price and ease of use - I think Word ends up being pretty imposing for a lot of people.<p>You probably should stay out of finance documents though (invoices), which tend to get auto-generated by software. That would require integration effort, as I don't think high-value businesses tend to do invoices by hand.
From a design standpoint, I think that your mix of flat-ui and non-flat elements gives it a strange feel. For example, your headline has shadow and depth to it, but other elements are strictly flat. It's just a design inconsistency you might want to address as you mature.
Looks good but the stock Flat UI icons don't really fit in with the rest of the design.<p>It seems like the two major "styles" don't work well together.
I had this idea back in March 2011 with <a href="http://resumatic.net/" rel="nofollow">http://resumatic.net/</a>, but I never really ran with it and it has by any measure failed (it's still up, since it costs me nothing to host). After testing the market, and my meagre design abilities, I decided that it wasn't the business for me -- I just wasn't sure job seekers would be willing to shell out.<p>So with that in mind, it's sort of cool and inspiring to read about someone doing something quite similar and actually making it work. Have you ever written about the process of building Resumonk as a business in detail? I'd love to read more.
I tried this at some point and recommended it to a couple people in the past. I liked the convenient interface, though I remember having an issue with my address breaking at an inconvenient location and there was no apparent way to fix it.<p>I eventually hacked together a solution using Handlebars and PhantomJS, which isn't as convenient as Resumonk, but it gave me the stylistic control I wanted without having to learn LaTeX. <a href="https://github.com/skofo/resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/skofo/resume</a>
If anyone is looking for a completely free alternative, I have created HipCV for online resumes. <a href="https://hipcv.com" rel="nofollow">https://hipcv.com</a>