Building Resgen: July 2024 recap

Aug 1, 2024 • WRITTEN BY IAN LASKY

This is the first of, what will become, a monthly recap. There are some awesome updates to Resgen that I'd love to share and give some inside view of what's going on under the hood and what's planned. So, let's dive right in with the major updates.

Major updates

  • 🎨 Complete dashboard redesign: the new dashboard is more usable and less cluttered
  • 🚀 Bullet matching: implemented a similarity matching metric to show how well each bullet matches the requirements
  • 🚀 Keyword matching: different than similarity matching, checks if critical keywords are present in your resume
  • 🚀 Swap to Typst: made the switch from LaTeX to Typst for faster and less finicky resume generation (may make a library like react-pdf but for Svelte in the future)
  • 💵 First customer: first paying user (since the redesign), bringing MRR to $20/month ($5/week)

I've also put some time into working on a quick side-project that will help strengthen Resgen's relationship with the developer community. Specifically, it's an open-source TOML-to-resume tool that users can either enter their information on the site or ping an API with their data to receive a nicely formatted resume in return. It uses similar backend logic as Resgen for creating the resume and can be self-hosted.

Looking forward

Currently, I have ~20 people signing up for Resgen per month. My goal for the upcoming month is to have a new signup every day with 2 new customers.

Regarding features, I will be primarily working on the extension. It was a previous feature that I retired to reconfigure the logic of the app to its current state. But I want to bring it back so that Resgen works on all job application sites (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Greenhouse, Ashby, etc.).

Have a great August everyone!

P.S., if you'd like to try out Resgen, sign up here