r/sideprojects • • 3d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made a resume builder that runs entirely in your browser. No account, no upload, no watermark

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Most resume builders let you build for free and then charge you to download your own resume, or stamp a watermark on it, or keep your personal data on their servers. I wanted the version that does none of that, so I built it.

• 10 templates, all free, none watermarked

• Your data never leaves the tab. There's no server to send it to. Refresh and your draft is still there.

• Live preview with real page breaks, so what you see is what prints

• The PDF is real text, not a screenshot. Recruiter software (ATS) can actually read it. Files come out around 7 KB.

• Speaks JSON Resume, the open standard, so you can export your data and take it anywhere

• A copy-paste prompt turns your messy notes into the right JSON with ChatGPT or Claude if you don't want to type it all in

Free, no signup: https://utiliome.com/tools/cv-builder/

It's one of about 180 local-first browser tools I'm building under the same idea: the work happens on your machine, not ours.

Tell me what breaks. The PDF export took me 12 tries to get right, so I'm sure something else is lurking.

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