Domain
Your own domain, not a network URL.
Publish to yourname.com so your presence is something you own outright. No handle on someone else network, and nothing that can be wound down by an acquisition you had no say in.
read.cv alternative
The read.cv alternative that lives on your own domain.
The best read.cv alternative is a clean CV and portfolio you actually own, not another hosted network that can be shut off. Folio is that home for the designers, product managers, and operators leaving read.cv: a premium, minimal CV and portfolio published to your own domain, with an AI-drafted resume and an ATS score built in. read.cv was wound down after its acquisition by Perplexity, so the move that protects you now is to put your presence on a domain that is yours, where it can never be wound down by someone else again.
Rebuild your read.cv profile on a domain that is yours.
Rebuild the clean read.cv profile you knew on a domain that cannot be wound down. Beta is free with no card, you publish to yourname.com rather than a network URL that can vanish, and sign-in uses email, Google, or a passkey.
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- CV, portfolio, and resume in one account
Why people are leaving read.cv
read.cv was good. It is also gone.
read.cv was a well-loved place to keep a minimal CV and a portfolio, especially for designers, product managers, and operators who wanted something cleaner than a social feed. It was acquired by Perplexity and wound down during 2025, which means the profile you built there no longer has a permanent home.
There is no fault in liking read.cv. The lesson is structural, not personal. When your CV and your work live on a network you do not control, the network gets to decide whether that presence keeps existing. The fix is not to find the next hosted network and hope it lasts. The fix is to put your presence on a domain that belongs to you, so the next acquisition or shutdown is somebody else news, not the end of your page.
How to migrate
From read.cv to your own domain in minutes.
You do not start from a blank page. Bring what you already have and Folio drafts the rest.
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Bring your content.
Paste your read.cv text, your resume, or a few bullet points about your roles and projects. Anything you kept a copy of is enough to start.
02
Let the AI rebuild your CV.
Folio reads what you paste and drafts a structured CV and resume in about a second: headline, summary, roles, and projects. You edit every field before anything is final.
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Pick a clean design.
Choose one of the premium, minimal layouts read.cv members are used to. The work that did not fit a feed, the case studies and the writing, finally has a real portfolio to live in.
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Publish your CV to your domain.
Map yourname.com, add two DNS records, and Folio issues the TLS certificate for you. Your CV and portfolio go live on a domain that is yours to keep.
What you get
Everything read.cv held, plus what it could not.
A minimal CV and portfolio, the way read.cv members like it, on infrastructure that answers to you instead of a parent company.
Design
Clean, minimal, premium.
The restrained, typography-led look read.cv members expect, without the templated feel. A page that reads like a considered portfolio, not a profile in a directory.
CV + portfolio
The CV and the work, together.
Your roles and your projects on one page, with room for the case studies and the writing that a one-line CV cannot hold. The complete picture, not a summary.
Resume
A real downloadable resume.
Beyond the on-page CV, Folio generates a clean resume you can export as a PDF and send to a recruiter. The file the website cannot replace, kept in sync with the same content.
AI draft
A first draft from a paste.
Paste your read.cv content or an old resume and the AI structures a complete first draft in about a second. You are editing, not starting from nothing.
ATS
Scored against the real filter.
Folio scores your resume against the applicant tracking systems recruiters use, then tells you what to fix. The CV looks great to a human and parses cleanly for the software.
How it compares
A home that is still here, and yours.
The places people consider after read.cv each miss something. The two that matter most are whether it still operates and whether the presence is actually yours.
| Capability | Folio | read.cv | Behance | about.me |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still operating | Yes | Shut down in 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Your own domain | Yes, included | On the network | On the network | Paid plan |
| CV and portfolio together | Both, one page | Both | Portfolio only | Single bio page |
| AI-drafted resume | Built in | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Resume with ATS score | Built in | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
read.cv was acquired by Perplexity and wound down during 2025; its rows describe a service that is no longer operating. Behance and about.me are hosted networks that operate at their own discretion; capabilities reflect each service published behavior and can change. Verify current terms on each service before you decide.
The point
Own your domain so this never happens twice.
The hard part of losing read.cv was not the export. It was realizing that the address people knew you by was never really yours. A hosted network can be acquired, deprioritized, or wound down, and your page goes with it. That is the one risk a custom domain removes entirely.
On Folio, your CV and portfolio live at a domain you control. If you ever leave, you keep the domain and your content comes with you. The design is the clean, minimal style read.cv set the bar for, the resume and ATS score are there when you are job searching, and the whole thing answers to you. That is the difference between renting a presence and owning one.
FAQ
Honest answers.
Is read.cv gone for good?
read.cv was acquired by Perplexity and wound down during 2025, so it is no longer a place to host your CV and portfolio. It was a genuinely good product, which is exactly why so many designers, PMs, and operators are now looking for somewhere to land. Folio is built to be that home, on a domain you own rather than a network that can be shut off.
Can I move my read.cv profile to Folio?
Yes. Paste your read.cv text, an old resume, or a few bullet points about your roles and projects, and Folio drafts a structured CV and resume from it in about a second. You then edit every field and pick a clean design. If you kept a copy of your read.cv content, rebuilding it on Folio takes minutes, not an afternoon.
Do I get my own domain?
Yes, and unlike the read.cv network URL you are leaving, it is yours and included free during beta. You publish to yourname.com, set two records in your registrar DNS, and Folio handles the TLS certificate the first time the page is requested. Because the domain is yours, your presence cannot be wound down by an acquisition the way read.cv was.
Is Folio free?
It is free for the whole beta. Build your CV, generate a portfolio and a resume, run the ATS score, and map a custom domain with no card on record. Should paid plans launch, the content, slug, domain, and pages you built remain yours.
Is it designer and PM friendly, like read.cv was?
Yes. Folio leads with restrained, typography-led, premium minimal designs, the same considered aesthetic read.cv members chose it for. There is room for the case studies, the systems you shipped, and the writing that a one-line CV cannot hold, so designers, product managers, and operators can show the work and not just list it.
How is this different from putting my work on Behance or about.me?
Behance and about.me are hosted networks, so your presence lives at their address and on their terms, which is the same arrangement that left read.cv members stranded. Folio publishes to your own domain, pairs the portfolio with a real downloadable resume and an ATS score, and keeps the CV and the work together on one page you control.
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