u/Builder7294

I’ve been building a job application assistant designed to simplify and automate the most frustrating parts of modern job hunting.

The idea came from watching how chaotic the process has become, especially in tech. People spend dozens — sometimes hundreds — of hours jumping between LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and individual company career pages just to find and apply to jobs.

Then comes the repetitive part:

rewriting resumes, tailoring applications, generating responses, tracking applications manually in spreadsheets, researching companies before interviews, and trying to keep everything organized across multiple platforms.

At some point, job searching starts feeling like a second full-time job.

So I started building a prototype focused on one core goal:

Make the entire job application workflow more centralized, organized, and efficient.

The product acts as a unified workflow assistant for job seekers. Instead of constantly switching between different job boards and application systems, the idea is to give users a single place to:

- discover and organize jobs from LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, company career pages, and other sources,

- track applications in one dashboard,

- tailor resume content for specific roles,

- generate customized application responses,

- save company/interview notes,

- and reduce repetitive manual work throughout the process.

The goal is not to spam recruiters or mass-apply blindly. The goal is to help qualified candidates spend less time managing the process and more time focusing on interview prep and finding the right opportunities.

Right now this is still an early prototype, and I’m trying to validate whether this solves a meaningful enough problem to become a real product.

I’d genuinely love honest feedback:

- Would something like this actually be useful to you during a job search?

- If yes, what pricing model would make the most sense?

- one-time payment,

- monthly subscription,

- pay-per-job-search,

- or something else?

Brutal honesty is welcome. I’m much more interested in understanding whether this solves a real pain point than getting polite validation.

After three months of job searching I built my own tool because nothing on the market did what I needed end-to-end. Wanted to share the approach and see what others think.
Core capabilities: scrapes 70+ career boards into one feed, scores my resume against every posting using TF-weighted keyword matching + phrase coverage, auto-tailors the resume per role with a layout compression cascade so it stays one page without losing content, generates cover letters from the JD + resume signals, and tracks pipeline.
The piece I’m most proud of is the resume tailoring — most tools either dump keywords in awkwardly or force you to cut content. This injects every selected keyword and compresses margins/spacing/font progressively until it fits one page, with nothing dropped.
Question for the sub: which capability would you actually pay for? And what do you currently use that almost works but doesn’t?