In early 2026, I was helping a friend prepare for job applications. He was a genuinely strong developer — three years of solid projects, good instincts, real problem-solving ability. He sent me his GitHub profile to review before he sent it to companies.
The profile had his name, a generic bio that said "passionate about coding," a contribution graph, and four pinned repos with no descriptions. That was it. There was nothing on that page that communicated who he was or why someone should talk to him.
I helped him rewrite it over two hours — adding a proper README, writing descriptions for his repos, explaining his projects clearly. He heard back from three companies the following week. Same developer, same code, different profile.
I looked around for a tool that could help people do what I did for my friend in two hours, but do it in two minutes. Nothing I found actually generated a personalized README — they all just showed templates you had to manually fill in. So I built ReadmeDesign.
The first version was a single-page generator I built over a weekend. I posted it on Dev.to and Reddit. Within a week, people were using it to generate READMEs I had never thought to include as templates. That feedback shaped everything you see on the site today.
ReadmeDesign is a side project that I work on in the evenings and on weekends. It's not backed by venture capital, it doesn't have a team, and it doesn't have a growth target. It exists because I think every developer deserves a profile that does them justice — and I know how to help with that.