Why your résumé and hub get their own subdomains
A shared link should look like it belongs to you, not to a tool. Here is why lapel serves résumés from cv.lapel.studio and hubs from me.lapel.studio, and what that buys you.
When you publish a résumé or turn on your link hub in lapel, the link you share is not a tangle of query strings buried under a dashboard path. Your résumé lives at cv.lapel.studio, and your hub lives at me.lapel.studio. The choice of subdomains is deliberate, and it changes how the link feels the moment someone sees it.
A link is a first impression
People judge a URL before they click it. A long, messy address with random ids reads as throwaway; a short, clean one reads as something you own and maintain. cv.lapel.studio/yourname looks like a place, not a printout. It is the difference between handing someone a business card and handing them a receipt.
Why two subdomains, not one
A résumé and a hub do different jobs, so they get different front doors. cv is for the document, the thing a recruiter prints or forwards. me is for the live front page, the thing they tap from a QR code at a fair. Splitting them keeps each link self-explanatory: you can read the host and know what you are about to open.
- cv.lapel.studio/<you> serves your published résumé.
- me.lapel.studio/<you> serves your link hub.
- lapel.studio/f/<id> is the short, tracked link behind each click count.
It is fast, because it is meant to be opened by strangers
Public résumé and hub pages are cached at the edge and refreshed automatically, so a recruiter on a phone at a careers fair gets the page instantly rather than waiting on a cold load. The subdomains are not just cosmetic: they are the public surface of your work, so they are built to be quick and reliable for someone who has never visited before and will not wait.
You keep a stable address
Because the link is tied to your slug rather than a database id, it stays put. You can edit the résumé, republish, change templates, and the address a recruiter saved still works. That stability is the whole point of giving these pages a clean home: a link is only worth sharing if it will still resolve when someone finally clicks it weeks later.