🚀 I Built a Privacy-First, Open-Source Resume Builder (No Login, No Tracking)

Muhammed Rashid V — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:30:12 +0000

Hey everyone 👋,

I recently built something I wish existed when I was job hunting —
A resume builder that’s completely free, privacy-first, and open source — called BuildMyResume.

🧠 Why I Built This

While searching for a good resume builder, I noticed most of them had a few common problems:

Forced signups just to get started

Tracking scripts and user data storage

Paywalls when trying to export

Locked-in platforms with limited control

There are some great open-source tools out there — but I wanted something simpler, fully client-first, and designed with privacy by default.

So I built one.

🔐 Key Principles

No sign up, no tracking, no cookies

End-to-end encrypted publishing (with AES + HMAC)

Nothing stored by default — unless you choose to publish (and that too is encrypted)

Editable preview to fix formatting visually

Pixel-perfect PDF export via Puppeteer backend

Mobile and desktop support

MIT licensed

✨ Features

Form-based builder with real-time preview

Professional, ATS-friendly templates (15+ and growing)

Editable resume formatting with line breaks, direct edit

JSON export for backup

Reopen and edit resumes with encrypted links

Open source, MIT licensed, forever free

🌐 Try it out

🔗 Live App → BuildMyResume
💻 Source Code → GitHub Repo

💬 I'd Love Your Feedback

I'm actively improving it and would really appreciate:

Your thoughts or suggestions

Any bugs or UX issues

Contributions from the community

Let me know what you think — and feel free to fork it, contribute, or just share it with someone who needs a better resume builder 🙌

Thanks for reading!

DEV Community: Muhammed Rashid V

🚀 I Built a Privacy-First, Open-Source Resume Builder (No Login, No Tracking)