u/CalligrapherPure9510

Not gunna lie, I'm pretty proud of PatchWork right now. Using each tool's autotailor feature (these are the only two main competitors that have one that I'm aware of), no edits, just exporting the resume and feeding it into Jobscan's resume-JD match evaluation tool, these were the average results:

Resume.io: 52/100

Kickresume: 63/100

PatchWork: 75/100

Plus, PatchWork's workflow is much easier once you build your master career profile. No base resume needed, every resume is just copy and pasting a JD and hitting "Generate".

Now how to actually get people to use it... lmao

I’ve long attempted to build the resume tool that I always wanted but never existed, one where you upload all your old resumes and cover letters and your LinkedIn to generate a comprehensive career history that you can feed to AI along with a job description to have your best possible resume for any role written for you. It would consider every single bullet point you had ever written against the job description, and select the combination that best positioned you for the role, and then naturally incorporate keywords or job requirements or skills into the selected bullets. You could edit the resume if you wanted to, but ultimately when you review it, no major edits are needed. It would surface any keyword insertions it wasn’t sure about for you to review, and it would output the resume in an ATS friendly format that was simple and generic enough to not be obviously traced back to a resume app or ChatGPT/Claude. The tool wouldn’t hallucinate, and would create human in the loop buffers between the AI and the resume output to ensure a resume that accurately reflects the work you’ve done. The resume would be written not to hit every keyword possible, but to tell the career story the hiring manager is looking for so your resume stands out amongst the hundreds or thousands being reviewed.

But every tool I tried ran into a wall somewhere, whether it was in the document extraction, profile generation, or the resume drafting. So I gave up for a while and just continued using Claude, copying and pasting job descriptions, uploading my homemade master career fact sheet, and then editing the output for an hour to remove the hallucinations and copy the content into my résumé template and tweak the formatting issues.

About a month ago, I opened Replit to check on an unrelated website that I had built a few months prior. I made a few edits and realized Replit had gotten a lot better since I had last used it. I decided to try to build my résumé tool one last time using Replit.

Two days later, I had built a working prototype of the tool I had dreamed of for years now. A week and a half later, I had a tool was consistently putting out high-quality resumes that I started to actually use to apply to jobs. Once I uploaded my documents to create my profile, all I had to do was copy and paste the job description I was going for, hit generate résumé, review the output once, hit export, and submit my application. I applied to 10 jobs with 10 unique resumes in under an hour and a half. I got eight replies, seven interview requests, and I am currently in 3 final rounds.

Before I built this, I was using all the other tools (zety, teal, resume worded, kickresume, etc) and hearing nothing back. Once I started using the tool I built, everything changed and I feel confident about applying to jobs now. I originally just planned on making a tool for my own job search, but it works so well that I wanted to launch it as an app so other people could get ahead in this heinous job market.

The tool is called PatchWork (https://usepatch.work) and your first two resumes (+1 interview prep guide) are free!

Would love feedback, particularly on how I can make the homepage more engaging so that people actually generate a free resume to see how good the tool is themselves.