A lot of people like to think of us as a complete LinkedIn replacement, which is a bit far fetched given our 2 person team. I like to think of LinkedIn as a way to be found and indexed by a massive search engine, and Read.cv as your friendly profile you would want to share with recruiters or as the link in your bio. Custom domains make your profile even more professional to share too!
We also have a great tight knit community of creatives who aren't into the LinkedIn influencer posts — so you might find some chill new people to connect with as well!
Awhile back we shared a new professional platform we'd created called Read.cv — a super minimalist profile with your work history, projects, and case studies. A lot of people had been asking for custom domains to turn their profile into a personal homepage. Well today we are happy to launch personal domains, complete with custom typography and themes!
We used Vercel's new Edge Functions to make the routing work seamlessly in our web app, while under the hood it's actually using Cloudflare Workers to do middleware processing and routing at the edge layer. Because all this routing happens at the edge layer before requests even make it to our web app, we get features like bundle splitting, authentication and caching at the per domain level, and all for free. The end result is that we can build a web app without worrying about all the hairy details: we can re-use components from our main site in custom domains, static resources correctly load from custom domains rather than our main site, and all the routing logic is cached at the edge layer for fast handling.
Let us know if you try out custom domains, and happy to answer any questions about the feature!
I wanted to give a little update on read.cv since I originally posted this as a side project back in January. I'm excited to say the original post gave me the confidence to take this from a side project to a full time commitment. Two friends have joined the team and we've built a whole bunch of new stuff!
* Pages — a self publishing tool that allows you to create case studies in the context of your profile. You may have seen this in action on Daring Fireball's post about the Chrome Home design this week.
* Front Page — a community hub showcasing the best work from around the platform.
* Replies — Privately kick off a conversation from any experience, page, or status update. No likes or comments on the platform.
* Following — keep up to date with friends and collaborators. No follower vanity metrics.
Just wanted to say thanks for the push to take this further. Would love to hear what you think about the updates!
Just signed up and will fill out a profile later. It’s cool that side projects are highlighted as much as work. How often do you expect people to log on to it and why?
Awesome to hear! Initially we only offered profiles and pages so people would only really log on to update when they had accomplished something new or were job hunting. With the front page we feel like there are more opportunities to come back and engage with the community, especially if you're a hiring manager for your team.
Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning.
As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the feedback on!
For sure get what you mean. I actually wanted to give equal weight to things like projects and side projects for this very reason (instead of purely work experience and education). I'm hoping this can be seen a little bit less like a formal CV, and sort of a easy to share link you can throw in your bio or even use as a personal website.
We also have a great tight knit community of creatives who aren't into the LinkedIn influencer posts — so you might find some chill new people to connect with as well!