Reactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder that simplifies the process of creating, updating, and sharing your resume.
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Reactive Resume v5
Launched this week
A free and open-source resume builder that simplifies the process of creating, updating, and sharing your resume.
Interactive
Free
Launch Team / Built With
Zety
Reactive Resume
Introducing the all-new Reactive Resume v5,
the free and open-source resume builder you know and love!
This little side project of mine launched all the way back in 2021, at the height of the pandemic, and while I counted it to good timing back then, it wouldn't have lasted this long if there wasn't a real need from the community.
Since then, Reactive Resume has helped almost 1 million users create resumes, helped them get the careers they wanted and 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 most people need 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:
Improved user experience, now easier than ever to keep your resume up-to-date.
Great for single page or multi-page resumes, or even long-form PDFs.
Easier self-hosting with examples on how to set it up on your server.
Immensely better documentation, to help guide users on how to use the project.
There’s some AI in there too, where you bring your own key, no subscriptions or paywalls. There's also an agent skill for those who want to try it out on their own.
Improved account security using 2FA or Passkeys, also add your own OAuth2/SSO provider (no more SSO tax!).
13 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. 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?
I sincerely hope you enjoy using the brand new edition of Reactive Resume almost as much as I had fun building it. Head over to https://rxresu.me and check it out right now.
If you’d like to know more about the app, head over to the docs at https://docs.rxresu.me/ or if you’d like to take a peek at the code, the GitHub Repository is at https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume.
Note: I do expect a lot of traffic on launch day and I don’t have the most powerful of servers, so if the app is slow or doesn’t load for you right now, please check back in later or the next day.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Cloudthread
Congrats! Can it scrape existing pdf or linkedin resume?
Reactive Resume
@daniele_packard yes, it can. You just have to add your preferred AI API key (stored locally) and you can leverage LLMs to read through the PDFs/DOCXs to parse them into the desired format.
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@amruthpillai — Hitting ~1M users on an OSS resume builder is awesome; the scale pain is PDF rendering consistency + template safety (no layout drift) while keeping privacy-first defaults.
Best-practice: server-side queue for exports (idempotent jobs) + deterministic render pipeline (Playwright/Puppeteer) + strict template schema + automated visual-regression on every template change.
Open Q: are you planning an ATS-safe mode (fonts/spacing/semantic sections) and how do you sandbox community templates/custom CSS to prevent injection in shared resumes?
Reactive Resume
@ryan_thill Scale is a huge issue for sure. I pay out of pocket for some of the infrastructure and sometimes it's subsidised by the donations the project gets through Open Collective, but it can get difficult to consistently render PDFs through Chrome. It's very resource hungry.
As for ATS safe, some templates are already optimized for ATS. I let the user know through labels on the templates. And as for community templates, there haven't been much so far, but I go through PRs manually to ensure there's no funny business going on. Custom CSS is completely sanitized and stripped of any external loading, so it's safe to use.
Hello there! I have been very satisfied with XResume and have prepared many CVs using this platform. However, currently I am unable to download my resume as a PDF. The system gives an error during the PDF export process. I hope this issue can be resolved soon, as the platform is otherwise very useful and reliable. Can you help me please
Reactive Resume
@kawthar_dogan it's because of excessive traffic and load on the server. It's important to keep in mind that this is a free, not for profit project, and the only way for sustained reliability is the project is sponsored by someone or some company that believes in the same vision of career opportunities for all. At the moment, we're not there yet, so apologies for the errors.
Was excited to try this against my existing PDF resume, but I'm unable to enable AI. I've tried entering API keys for both OpenAI and Gemini Pro.
I love that it focuses on making updates and sharing easier, since my resume is always a work in progress. I wonder if it saves my data locally in the browser so I don't have to create yet another account just to fix a single typo.