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Read.cv is winding down, joining Perplexity.

A new chapter

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Marta (@martaherlop.bsky.social)

This is our time for internet grief, then AFTER we can start building (party is not over yet, we just have a curfew) :)

Uff, so alternatives for less toxic platforms are getting less…

Hey @andy Thanks for everything. I don’t know how you guys did it but you managed to create a vibe for creatives like no other. I’m sure you will be awesome at Perplexity also. It is a real pity to be losing this 3rd place for us though.

Really sad to hear things will be shutting down, but good luck for the future!

Heartbreak aside for a moment - and given the speed at which Posts will be gone -, is anyone else wanting a replacement? I’m keen to keep the spirit of Posts alive and up for building something. If you’re interested, register your interest here: https://tally.so/r/3EvVP4 🧑‍💻❤️

Thanks for everything folks! Building a digital space like this, one that’s so welcoming and friendly, is no small accomplishment! You should be very proud of yourself! 👏

I feel exactly the same. See you there! 🫡

Congratulations nonetheless! Posts.cv will always have a special place in my heart🫶🏽

I just registered posts.club, if there's anything you want me to link to there please lmk :)

Thanks @andy and team for creating such a wonderful and beautiful corner on the internet. I will miss it for sure 😢 Good luck and congrats on your next endeavours <3

In light of this… find me on Bluesky everyone?

Couldn’t agree more! Pleased to have you onboard! 🙏

grateful for the time and effort the team put into building this space but man this fucking sucks to hear :<

Oh nooooo, it's a bummer to hear this news, but it makes sense. Thanks for creating such a nice place to hang out online for these past few years!

You never know when your fav internet space has an expiry date💔, thats going to motivate me to doomscroll more

Congrats on this new chapter Andy! 🎉 Going to miss @cv but excited to see your impact continue with Perplexity!

First thing I asked but I doubt they can unless perplexity decides to be really cool about the IP they just bought.

No way :”( This is a real teeth kicker but it definitely is a fun space to be in, will miss it!!!🥲

I know how it feels when u have to let your baby go. It’s hard to sustain a business. Good luck on your next journey.  Be proud of what you guys have done.

dang. thank you for making an amazing platform. wishing y'all the best on your new journey 🖤🤍

go get em! i promise you this! i will use this platform like my life depends on it! this platform is the only social media that was safe and respectful.

You all are legends!! Thank you for such a beautiful platform. The friendships and communities that were seeded here will persist :) <3

Congrats for the next chapter! It was really a fun and interesting place to be, it will be missed!

Amazing run with Read.cv and Posts, you all built some beautiful stuff. Posts was my favorite little corner of the internet 🥲Congrats  on the next chapter!

There isn't one, I think we have to create it.

Wow! Nuts…

Hard to think of a way to describe how I’m feeling other than an overwhelming realization that all good things must come to an end …

Guys relax, it's a prank. Right @andy? 🥺

Congrats, team. You built a cool little community here. I hope to see some or all of you around. @speasley.bsky.social

Will miss this place 4 real! 😭 Thanks for making this space so special!

Hey all, I wanted to share a very bittersweet update here before we shared it anywhere else. First, the hard part — we’ve made the difficult decision to wind down Read.cv and Posts starting this month.

HUGE props to building something that has such a wonderful community around it. Perplexity is lucky to have you and I'm excited to see all the great contributions the whole team makes.

Looks like everyones locking in 🥹, i shouldn’t be this exited

Damn, this was my last hope for a nice corner of the internet…

Happy for you and the team and thanks for building a product so many of us loved 🖤

LOVE U GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :')

proud of y’all! you built something incredible. can’t wait to see what you do next!

I am thankful for you, your team, and this platform. Truly one of a kind.

TBH still kind of getting through the surprise

So sad to hear but thank you for having made read.cv happen. Best of luck in your next chapter, Andy!

Nothing but respect for what you and the team have accomplished here. Everyone involved should feel proud of having been a part of Read and Posts. Best wishes to all!

Turns out I'm wrong and it's really ending. The Read.cv team is joining Perplexity but the community is at a crossroads. We should build a new one or join somewhere that looks promising and suits our vibe. Threads/X/Mastodon/Bluesky? Onwards from here.

Reflecting on the last 4 years, it has been an incredible privilege to take a swing at building this product and community, and I want to sincerely thank you all for your support.

Look, I'm absolutely jazzed for @andy and the team as humans, but if you read https://read.cv/about/supporters, then it's definitely a bit of a rug pull. Up until today, they were building for "years to come"!

Wishing you all the best 🥹♥️ thanks for the good times, and for fostering such a beautiful community

Man, this one stings! I can’t wait to see what you all accomplish within Perplexity, I know you’re going to go on to do *even* more amazing things!!! 🤍🎉

I will miss your work and the design community 😭

Congrats on the new journey and thank you for building an awesome community! Will add you on LinkedIn if that’s okay

Thanks for giving it a shot, you all did great work against a lot of odds.

Dude, you guys built a fantastic product and you should be extremely proud of yourselves. This has honestly become my favorite place on the internet, and I'll miss it a lot. Congrats on joining Perplexity!!!

all the best in your next chapter!
maybe someday you built something new? 🥹

I volunteer as tribute. 🙋 If you're interested, make yourselves know: https://tally.so/r/3EvVP4

Lmk if y'all want more team members I'd be more than happy to join but still processing ahhhhhhh

You can read our full post regarding this announcement, and how to export your data here: https://read.cv/a-new-chapter

While it's so sad to see that all the work the read.cv team has done will wind down soon, I'm proud to have at least become a supporter for part of it! I'll miss this place for sure! 

Thanks for everything your small team has done, best of luck on the new adventure!

I just registered posts.club, and added a link to your form on there. I'll be updating the site as community initiatives unfurl :)

aww congrats and best of luck on your journey ❤️ will really miss this space, it was wonderful while it lasted

congratulations! thank you and the team for creating a safe space online. it's brought so much joy as is, and excited to see how your journeys evolve!

Serious question: what's the next best platform that captures the vibe of Posts (and Read) and has a similar audience?

I am also of the very much in variety. This space was so necessary

Bittersweet news but congrats to the team on the next chapter! Thank you all for providing this service, it will be missed 💜

This has been a wonderful place and a great way to connect with so many amazing people (even though I’m on the other side of the world in New Zealand).

Thank you and bravo!

So sad to hear! This platform is amazing, massive win for Perplexity ✨

Also thanks for all your hard work and the beautiful thing you created <3

i have heavily curated my Bluesky following/feeds into a bunch of webdev/design/startup folks and it's been great. lots of people building stuff, sharing work, ideas, etc. (I also muted a bunch of news-related keywords that I dont care to see 24/7, which keeps my feed clean)

Both will be sorely missed. Best of luck!

Yeah it’s disappointing. they could at least open source it, although I doubt the deal allows them to.

I just bought the Smithographic.cv domain yesterday, so will there be a refund if the functionality at of the domain will cease to exist?

tysm read.cv team;; super bummed but good luck on moving forward~ ty for creating this cozy corner with an awesome community space! <3

and sending you love for what must be a difficult transition and all the best with the new journey!!!

Oh my I’m so sad to hear this, this was truly a warm place for designers. I’ll miss this truly, no other place has felt like this.

Thank you.

thank you for making this lil corner on the web– so cool to hear the team is joining perplexity, best of luck to you all!!

It’s not often that a product is created that people enjoy and love this much. Congrats on everything, and wishing you all nothing but the best in the next adventure! 💛

Congrats @andy! Sad to hear about read.cv but excited for your team joining Perplexity.

It's not much but the cook is in the kitchen idk

You inspired so many. They’ll be lucky to have you all. 🫶

@andy would it be an alternative to sunsetting?

so you're closing an actually useful product to join yet another ai slop that will close in the next few years? fascinating

Bummer! This was a fun place to hang out. :\

I can say that it is simply the best space to share and meet amazing people with very different tastes and, at times, very similar ones.

Thank you for all the work, thank you for this space, for the time it lasted. Wishing you success in your new adventures at Perplexity.

Massive bummer, but that’s a testament to what yall have built. I appreciate you having a clear roadmap for sunsetting and making profiles/data accessible still too.

I was a proud supporter for a month! Good luck going forward!

Damn this really sucks, but I totally understand. It's super hard right now for small software businesses :(. 

Wishing you all the best, y'all created one of the bright spots on the internet.

nooooo, i just read this 😭 😭 😭 saddest news in the world. gonna cry now! 
thanks for what you built, Andy. i met several amazing people in real life thanks to posts, found great freelance gigs thanks to my readcv profile and generally always felt like it's a warm cozy place.

Yup, that’s the reason why I decided to support since support was thing. I believed in the project, and I think I just paid another year a just a few months ago.

I know, support was optional and it’s probably part of the terms, but still…

❤️ them nonetheless

To be transparent, the reason for this decision is anticlimatic — ultimately the challenges of sustaining a small business were more than we could overcome.

If you do end up building something i’d be more then happy to help with the backend and infrastructure :)

Nothing but love and support for y’all Andy and team, making a better internet is definitely not easy and its incredibly admirable these days

Nothing but the best of luck ❤️‍🔥🧨

Bitter more than sweet but happy for the team too 🥲

I remember seeing your Show HN post and immediately falling in love with the site. Thanks for the years for all of the team's hard work making a clean, quiet corner on the web :')

Of all the places I’ve hung out online, this was always the best one ❤️

Posts & Read.cv were my little bright spot of the internet. Adored the community and vibes and inspiration of everyone here. I’m sad it’s going away, but I understand. Will miss you all!

congrats, hope the vision you created for @read_cv into @perplexity_ai two products I really like and enjoy using. Bittersweet yes, I will miss @read_cv and the beautiful community.

That's a good point! Didn't want too much friction, but so long as I've got email addresses I can (and definitely will) gather more thoughts and feelers. ✨

ahhhhhhhhhhh so sad to hear, you all truly built something beautiful and refreshing for the internet. thank u & good luck

Arse. I understand these things have to happen though. For a moment we had proof that that social media can be positive, heathy and supportive. You and your team made that possible and you should be incredibly proud. ❤️

woke up to the saddest news of all worlds 😭😭😭 but thank you so so much for creating this warm and special space for us to hang out and a remarkably focused and opinionated product that shows the world a different way 💖

Andy that sounds great! I'm interested to be a part of that. Posts was my fav social media. Can I get an invite to the discord community?

Hey, this was a good place on the web. I'm sorry to see it go. Thanks for giving it your all.

Congratulations to you and your team. So sad to say goodbye to this warm and fuzzy corner of the Internet. Thank you for all your hard work. This space will be greatly missed!

wow, such sad news! Thanks @andy + team for creating this platform and fostering such a creative and supportive community. It was truly one of the few safe spaces and wholesome corners of the internet left. That said, I’m very excited for your new chapter with Perplexity! ♥️😌

As for what’s next, our team will be joining the product and engineering team at Perplexity. Both of our teams share a passion for building tools that encourage exploration and curiosity, and we’re excited to show you what we build together.

Prob a good idea to add a multi choice role question (are you a designer, dev, etc)

Thanks for building something so great. Best of luck at Perplexity!

I don't think one exist but that's not stopping felow posts users from making one for all of us.
@taurean has made a bluesky feed with posts.cv alumni: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tft77e5qkblxtneeib4lp3zk/feed/aaahltvlqwftc

Ahhhh, this is a tough one. Not only did you make an amazing community and truly great place on the internet – you made a real world impact. I'm fortunate to work with @smnmmnn today and without Posts it never would have happened. Best of of luck at Perplexity!

make that one cook and one front of house :p

Oh my this community is so special, always love coming here to browse. You guys built such a beautiful platform :,)

Oh I thought the community was shutting down, we're only moving to Perplexity 😄. I'm already there.

So sad to hear and nothing but love for the team and community. Posts is one of my favorite places on the internet, but the Perplexity team is so blessed to have y'all! It's so hard to find such genuine spaces- thank you so much for creating such a beautiful community!! ♥️

Have loved watching you grow this platform... it would be, wow, so amazing if you contributed the underlying source code to the open source ecosystem. 

Regardless, epic run — and super bullish on your next steps at Perplexity!

Godspeed to the .cv team - one of the best to ever do it. It's been genuinely inspiring watching ya'll build such a wonderfully executed idea from the ground up. Good luck with everything at Perplexity and see you on andys.world :)

Wow! So sad 🥲 this is the most supportive and friendly online community i’ve ever been part of. 💗 Big TY to @andy and team for building this gem. Post feels so irreplaceable these days, but i’ll move my sorry ass to Bluesky and pray for the best 🥺

NOOOO i just found you guys! Congrats on the great community you built here and your new steps!!

I’ll definitely miss this! Congratulations on joining Perplexity! 🙏🏼

Count me in, we need a place like this. Nothing else feels this way.

this would be the best and i’d love to provide any insight here - hoping when the dust settles we can use the read cv discord for folks in the community who want to keep in touch

I was looking at that exact url, glad you got it