Re:Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to bu...
by hashhar on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:00PM
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I agree with what you say. These days I see a lot of projects which could've simply benefited both themselves and others by contributing code to the original project which they re-implemented.
But JSON Resume is entirely open source already: https://github.com/jsonresume
Why not simple add a Word output to the existing project? You also created a new schema, which is almost the same, but not quite.
I don't understand the purpose of re-inventing the wheel here. The other project has dozens of contributors, I'm going to assume it stays up to date more.
--- Edit: I see your product does actually integrate with theirs. Still seems like it could have all been one product, though. I don't understand what you mean by "an open source alternative."