Developer here, I subscribe to Github's official weekly newsletter and various other ones but always found that they did a poor job at highlighting what's trending. The "top trending" repos always seem to be most established projects like Bootstrap or ReactJs.
I'm using a peak detection algorithm to find which repos are spiking in traffic and rank the uptrend based on a normalized growth curve.
This filters out all the well established repos and actually uncovers new trends and launches. Hope you guys find it useful!
This is awesome. I had the same desire and even told folks at GitHub that improving this report is low hanging fruit. It's been on my list of ideas to hack on for awhile :-)
Ideally you (well, really I :-P) also want star/follow activity from people you follow bundled in any update that's also reporting the projects discovered by your peak detection algorithm over that same period of time. There'd likely be some overlap in the report but you could indicate that in your report. This also gives you more incentive to login with GitHub which is a little lacking right now.
Thanks for the feedback, the first thing on my list is definitely more personalization. I just wanted to get it out there and see if people liked it first.
Awesome product :) Is it possible to allow accounts so that user can browse starred repos from your web app ? I am suggesting this because the search feature's topics looks quite complete already, so it would be great to navigate hundreds of starred repos based on the topics, which is something I've been looking for.
Thanks, it's for starring a repo. Github ties it to that same permission scope. You can go to your Github integration settings and disable that scope just for a certain app if you want.
Author here, this is created with React and is basically an better interface on top of the Github search API. If you authenticate with your Github account, you'll increase the search rate limit.
From the awesome feedback we got, we decided to make a simple Google Doc add-on to help users fill out the templates easily with their existing Word resume, LinkedIn profile or VisualCV profile and be able to switch between designs easily.
If you guys like it please rate us on the chrome store :)
Also, we are giving away free pro VisualCV upgrades for anyone who uses the new Google Doc Add-on
Right now we just have simple exports in various formats like Google Doc or a PDF resume. We are looking to embed structured data with the PDF that we are creating for users so that the data is always tied to their application and it makes for really simple resume parsing.
We spent some time to create a collection of well designed resume templates for Google Docs. They are all completely free to use, hopefully you guys will find them useful.
If you guys have any suggestions of what kind of designs you'd like to see in the future. let me know.
We spent some time to create a collection of well designed resume templates for Google Docs. They are all completely free to use, hopefully you guys will find them useful.
Where did I suggest that I have anything against you?
I simply had deja vu when I saw this post (again) today, and wondered where I saw it. Searching HN showed nothing, which surprised me because I was certain I saw it here. The parent's link to the flag-killed post gave me an answer.
Probably because this post is effectively a commercial for your product without explicitly saying so. You are trying to showcase the resumes people have built with your product in order to showcase your product. I can see how that might grind on peoples' nerves. Plus the repeated posting.
Developer here. Thanks for all the great feedback. VisualCV was actually a really old rails project (built in 2007) that we inherited and completely rebuilt last year.
Our goal for the project is to focus on how to present professional information visually and with UX techniques that we've learned from web development. To us, most resumes are stuffed with a lot of insubstantial text. We wanted to instantly see numbers, results and achievements in a glance. Recruiters generally take a few seconds to screen for key information and indicators of success and we wanted to present all those info with nice visual hierarchy and make it a pleasure to view. Admittedly, I don't think our current designs have hit those targets as well as I've hoped but we do have some exciting designs in the pipeline.
As you browse through the database you might notice that some of the resumes look a bit messy (they are the black on white design with sidebar images). These are mostly legacy users that we had to migrate to our new platform. Their previous resumes looked something like this: http://legacy.visualcv.com/
I only implemented as a simple autocomplete for a simple tag search. We actually have over 1400 tags but only about 140 are actually active for searching, I think that's actually an oversight on our end. You can go to https://www.visualcv.com/resume-samples/directory# for all the tags, rails and .net are both on there
We've posted our resume builder, VisualCV on HN a while back and had got a lot of great feedback. A lot of people wanted to see some real resume samples that others have created so we built a curated database of some of our top public users and ran a script to take a screenshot of all their CVs. Hope you guys find it useful.
I'm using a peak detection algorithm to find which repos are spiking in traffic and rank the uptrend based on a normalized growth curve. This filters out all the well established repos and actually uncovers new trends and launches. Hope you guys find it useful!
Some notable features, there's also a better interface to search topics on github as well as a curated topics section: http://www.gitlogs.com/resource-guides http://www.gitlogs.com/search
Appreciate any feedback,