Reactive Resume

Reactive Resume is a free, open-source resume builder with over 36,000 GitHub stars, built with privacy at its core. Unlike SaaS resume tools that monetize your personal career data, self-hosting on a VPS means your information stays entirely on your own infrastructure. It supports 14+ professionally designed templates, real-time preview, pixel-perfect PDF export, and public shareable links — all without requiring users to trust a third-party cloud provider.

Common Use Cases

HR teams can host a private instance to ensure candidate data stays within company infrastructure and never reaches external services. Universities and coding bootcamps can offer students a self-hosted resume tool as part of their career services platform. Developers and freelancers who prefer full data ownership can run a personal instance on their VPS at minimal cost. Organizations can register initial accounts and then disable signups to restrict access to their team only.

Key Features

• 14+ professionally designed resume templates with full layout, font, and color customization
• Real-time editing with instant live preview alongside the resume canvas
• Pixel-perfect PDF export powered by a built-in headless Chrome renderer (Browserless)
• Public resume sharing via unique URLs that always reflect the latest saved version
• AI writing assistance compatible with OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude
• Two-factor authentication (TOTP) and passkey (WebAuthn) support for account security
• Import resume data from LinkedIn profile exports or JSON format
• Multi-language UI with support for dozens of locales
• Dark mode and multiple theme options for the editor interface
• Optional Google, GitHub, and LinkedIn OAuth authentication
• Admin flag to disable new user signups for private or team-only instances
• Self-contained S3-compatible file storage via bundled SeaweedFS — no external object store needed

Why deploy Reactive Resume on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Reactive Resume on a Hostinger VPS gives you full control over every piece of career data stored in the system. There are no per-user fees, no data mining, and no dependency on external SaaS uptime. Your instance runs entirely on your VPS — PostgreSQL handles user data, SeaweedFS manages uploaded files and generated PDFs, and Browserless renders documents locally. All services communicate over private Docker networks with no outbound data requirements. As your user base grows, you can scale VPS resources to match demand without changing the application configuration.