On Saturday, 24 October, we put GoResume on Product Hunt for the first time. It’s the place where builders show new products to the world, and it was a big step for a tool that until now has grown almost entirely by word of mouth in India.
Why we launched
More than a million job seekers have built a résumé with GoResume. Most of them found us through a search or a friend. Product Hunt was our chance to put the product in front of people outside India, and, more importantly, to hear from builders and recruiters who’d never seen it.
What we showed
- Speak your résumé in your language. Talk in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi or English, and the AI writes an ATS-friendly English résumé in under a minute.
- Tailor to any job. Paste a job description to get a match score, the keywords you’re missing, and a tailored copy.
- One live link. goresume.io/u/you updates every time you edit.
- AI headshots, 99 templates, mobile and dark mode.
The 2-minute demo: https://youtu.be/2LC20rnu518
How the day went
GoResume was live on Product Hunt for 24 hours, from 12:31 PM IST on Saturday to 12:30 PM IST on Sunday. It finished at #77 for the day and wasn’t featured on the homepage, so it was a quiet launch and an honest baseline for the next one.
What people told us
We got fewer comments than we hoped, and every one of them is in our roadmap.
What we’d do differently
- Start building the Product Hunt community weeks before launch: follow, comment and help other makers.
- Launch on a weekday if the goal is reach. Saturday is quieter, which made it easier to rank but brought fewer visitors.
- Line up early users to share honest reviews on the day.
What’s next
We’re shipping improvements to voice input and tailoring based on what we heard, and we’ll keep replying on our Product Hunt page: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/goresume
If you haven’t tried GoResume yet, it’s free to build and share at https://goresume.io
— Jitin, founder, GoResume
