alt.hn

1/17/2025 at 7:25:16 PM

Read CV Acquired by Perplexity

 https://read.cv/a-new-chapter

by camjw

1/17/2025 at 8:39:47 PM

A small part of me: This is the dream, right? (Presumably) cashing out your side/main project. You made it. Good job!

The other part of me: This grows tiresome. Users are increasingly treated like stepping stools for founders (reminiscent of a pyramic scheme): Users help grow a product with their network, their content, or their money, get comfortable with that product, integrate it into their lives... and then it's yanked out from under them.

No, you're not (legally) obligated to provide a service in perpetuity, and founders/investors take on all the risk, but what would it look like for founders to push back (even a bit) and say "Listen, I want your money and you want my product, but you need to do something to take care of my users"? Seems far-fetched, but at some point I (the user) am going to stop taking a risk on your new product and just go with one offered by Google that will last forev— Oh.

by JadoJodo

1/18/2025 at 1:52:18 AM

Maybe the project wasn't sustainable and the team decided to move on?

It would be so nice if Perplexity gave them a few weeks to pull off what Campsite did and open source everything...

by yawnxyz

1/24/2025 at 2:00:53 PM

Totally agree, though if you're looking for a new space, we're trying to keep the spirit of their Posts.cv app alive over at https://twigg.social

by otter_is_fine

1/18/2025 at 12:57:08 AM

Yes capitalism makes people want to be filthy stinking rich.

by latentcall

1/18/2025 at 12:42:35 PM

and communism makes all people want to be miserable and poor ? How are these sort of bs comments, relevant to HN ?

Greed and loose ethics have existed longer than even the human species itself, and certainly is older and mainstream than capitalism which is a recent invention.

Has nothing to do with capital, btw, not abandoning your users and randomly shutting down service IS GOOD for capital. Have doubts ? Ask google, stadia failed because everyone already believed google would shut down stadia, same for a lot of their other services.

So even by your own logic, it is uncapitalistic to shut down projects like this.

by teitoklien

1/17/2025 at 8:04:44 PM

Well, this feels like a betrayal. Specifically, the focus on cashing out your idea, which overtakes the desire to make your product the best it can be. Then the pretense of excitement and admiration of who bought them out.

Finding and building a community for (tech) creatives is hard. Adding networking and post sharing aspects was stellar. I really liked how this one turned out.

I hope the gap it'll leave behind is filled.

by pixeldrifter

1/24/2025 at 1:58:32 PM

Yeah, the community they'd built around it was next level. Aiming to keep the spirit of it alive with https://twigg.social, built in the wake of the loss of posts.cv in particular.

by otter_is_fine

1/17/2025 at 7:54:22 PM

Acquhired. Read.cv and posts.cv are shutting down on a rather aggressive schedule. Big points for offering download of your CV as a complete Next project that you can host elsewhere, though.

by tobr

1/18/2025 at 2:27:36 AM

To avoid relying on projects like that in the future. I use selfhosted version of Reactive Resume [1]. Then I can keep the last version that worked even if change the license or stopped working. I would recommend everyone to look into this as a potential solution.

[1] https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume

by elashri

1/17/2025 at 8:13:05 PM

We built https://tini.bio a few months ago as an alternative if anyone is interested.

by andresmax

1/17/2025 at 11:11:01 PM

Yet again, let down by a centralised platform. I think most of the ones I haven't been disappointed by are forums, as many have lasted 10+ years.

by dorian-graph