
I Built the Resume Tool My Broke Student Self Needed
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community You finish a project you’re proud of. Your GitHub is active, you’ve taken courses, maybe done an internship. You have the skills. Now you need a resume. You open a resume builder — and it immediately starts boxing you in. “Company Name.” But you freelanced. The formatting looks fine in the editor but breaks in the PDF. You try another tool. Same issue. You switch to Google Docs — now you’re fighting spacing. You try LaTeX — now you’re learning a new tool just to describe what you already know. I built this for students who have real skills but struggle to present them clearly — not because they lack ability, but because the tools get in the way. And I’m one of them. What I Built I built Resmd — an open-source resume builder where you write in plain text and export a polished PDF. No forms. No drag-and-drop. No locked templates. It uses a simple Markdown-inspired syntax called ResMarkup : # Bio Name: Amara Osei
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