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After my cofounder and I finished our Master's two years ago, we ended up spending entire days filling out Workday forms instead of actually preparing for interviews. Low point: I joined what was supposed to be a "first round interview" only to find myself on a call with 4 other candidates. Turned out to be a front desk role, while I was applying for frontend developer jobs (I'd mass-applied through Dice).

That was when "just apply more" died for me. Volume wasn't the answer. It was just more noise: more spam, more fake stuff, more time wasted on things that were never going to help me actually get a job.

So we built Wobo for ourselves with four goals:

1. Filter out the ghost jobs, scams, and board noise so we could focus on real quality companies
2. Skip the 15-20 minute Workday/career portal grind on every application
3. Be able to decide in seconds whether a role was actually worth applying to
4. Have applications actually look like us, not generic AI filler

The point was never to spam recruiters with templated applications. It was to skip the busywork on the jobs you actually wanted to apply to, and only those.

How it works:

• Scans company career pages daily, including jobs that never make it to LinkedIn or Indeed
• Pre-vets companies based on hiring activity, funding signals, team growth, and reviews
• Each job card shows why the role fits you, how well it fits (similarity score against your persona), what skills you'd need, role benefits, and company signals like work-life balance
• Only applies on roles you click apply on, on the actual company career sites (not LinkedIn Easy Apply), using your voice and persona
• You train your persona over time by giving feedback on every answer it generates

Where we are now: 100k+ users. We've been at this for 2+ years, which feels weirdly long given how saturated the AI job tool space has gotten lately. A lot of people we know have found jobs through it: my own sister (still feels weird to say), several close friends, and hundreds of users who've reached out over the years.

Wobo's core features are free to use. Daily matches, applies on real career sites, AI resume builder, persona training, all of it. Most people save about an hour a day on their job search this way.

Genuinely curious what other AI folks here think about keeping AI agent applications personalized vs the auto-apply spam tools that just blast generic forms. That was the main tension when we were building it. The spam path is technically easier but kills quality.

Hopefully this can help a few more people out. If you want to try it, just search Wobo on the web or App Store. Happy to add extra credits to anyone here who comments.

TLDR: not a typical AI tool launch post. just the story of how my friend and i got burnt out on job applications and built something to fix it. 100k+ people use it now. without paying anything you can save about an hour a day on job hunting and clean up your resume with AI. if it helps, that's all we want.

two years ago my friend and i had just finished our master's and somehow job searching became our full time job.

every morning was the exact same thing. wake up, open every job board, search for frontend roles, read these massive job descriptions, tweak the resume, fill out the same forms over and over, hope something comes back.

if i tried to apply properly, one application would take like 15-20 minutes. end of the day i'd have maybe 10-15 applications, all genuinely tailored. most of them went absolutely nowhere.

then everyone started telling me "it's a numbers game" "you gotta apply more" "you gotta apply more".

so i tried it. signed up to a bunch of one-click apply sites (dice, ziprecruiter, that kind of thing) and started doing 50-60 applications a day.

and then my phone became unusable.

random calls all morning. random calls late at night. insurance offers. tax return scams. water pipe scams. recruiters calling about jobs i'd never even heard of. my number had clearly ended up somewhere it shouldn't have.

worst one was an interview invite that came through. email was vague but felt real enough. i joined the call and there were already 4 other people on it. my honest first thought was "damn this company must be a big deal if they're putting 4 people on the first interview, this is gonna be intense." then i figured out they weren't employees. they were also candidates.

i asked the guy running it what the role even was and he kinda snapped at me. told me to be quiet and wait my turn. about 20 minutes in, i finally found out it was a front desk role.

i was applying for frontend developer jobs.

that was the moment "just apply more" died for me. volume wasn't the answer, it was just more noise. more spam, more fake stuff, more time wasted on things that were never going to help me actually get a job.

i was spending the best hours of my day on the absolute most useless part of the job hunt. i should've been building things, talking to people, actually prepping for interviews. instead i was sitting in my room every morning filling out the same forms.

we figured there had to be a better way. so we started building something for ourselves. not because we had some grand market thesis, not because we wanted to chase the AI hype. we just needed it.

we sat down and listed out what we actually needed from this thing:

1. it had to filter out the ghost jobs, scams, and board noise so we could focus on real, quality companies
2. it had to give us enough info on each role to decide in seconds whether it was worth applying to
3. it had to handle the 15-20 minute application grind for us so we weren't filling the same forms over and over
4. and when it applied, it had to actually look like us, not like a bot blasted them out

that project became wobo (we're at r/wobo_AI too)

we used it ourselves first. then a few friends started using it. then friends of friends. today 100k+ people have used it and we know of hundreds who've found jobs through it. my own sister found her current job on it, which still feels weird to say out loud.

on the pricing side: the free version isn't a 7-day trial or some watered-down preview. daily matches, applies through company career sites, AI resume builder, all of it works free indefinitely. if you're job hunting casually, the free version is plenty. paid plans bump up daily limits and add some extras for people running heavier searches.

here's how it actually works:

wobo scans company career pages every day for new openings (including a lot of jobs that never make it to linkedin or indeed) and brings the relevant ones into your dashboard as clean job cards. each card shows why and how well the role fits you (we run a similarity score between your persona and the job description), what skills you'd need, role benefits, company values like work-life balance, plus the basics like location, work setup, and salary when available. basically enough to figure out in a few seconds if it's worth your time.

we also pre-vet companies before they enter the system. hiring activity, funding, team growth, reviews. so your feed isn't full of ghost listings and random scams.

when you pick a role, ai applies through the actual company career page (not linkedin easy apply, the real portal). it fills out the forms and answers screening questions in your voice using your persona. you build that persona over time by chatting with wobo, and you can give feedback on every answer it generates, basically training your own AI to sound more and more like you. cover letters when needed, application tracking dashboard, the whole thing.

if you're in the same trenches we were in two years ago, give it a try. comment below and i'll throw some extra credits on your account.

job searching is hard enough on its own. it shouldn't become your full time job.

ok this is gonna be a longer one but bear with me.

couple years back I was applying for jobs and it was honestly killing me. spent my whole day on it. not learning anything, not prepping for interviews, just sitting there with linkedin and indeed open, going through company career pages, reading the same job descriptions over and over, trying to figure out which ones were even worth the effort.

and the workday forms man.. you upload your resume and then it makes you manually type out everything from your resume into 47 different fields anyway, then 10 screening questions, then some 15 to 20 min personality test thing. by 6pm you’ve applied to maybe 8 jobs and feel like you’ve done absolutely nothing all day. my actual job had become looking for a job.

got fed up enough that I started building something for it with my cofounder. that was around 2 years ago, that’s how wobo started.

the idea was simple.just something that checks company career pages every day for new openings (including a lot of jobs that never make it to linkedin or indeed), looks at your background, finds jobs that actually fit, tells you why, shows them to you, and only applies when you click apply.

and when it does apply, it does it as you. your voice, your tone, answering screening questions the way you’d actually answer them, not generic AI filler. so you’re not spamming recruiters with random templated applications, you’re just skipping the busywork on the ones you actually wanted to apply to anyway.

we’re 2 years in now, 100k+ signups. we’ve already seen so many people land jobs through wobo and we want to help more people, so we made the apply part free.

paid plans still exist for heavier users with higher daily limits, but you can get real value without paying. the goal is to save job seekers around an hour a day on the repetitive parts of the search.

after signup it’s basically a quick chat with wobo so it learns your background and how you’d answer screening questions, then it starts bringing you matches. if you like one, wobo goes to the company career site and fills out the application in your voice.

we also have a resume builder we’re genuinely proud of, also free if you want to clean yours up with AI or make it more ATS friendly.

tldr: built an AI tool that handles the job search grind for you. it finds matches, fills out applications in your voice on company career sites, and is free now.

not gonna drop the link here so it does not look like link spam, but if you want to check it out just search Wobo on Google

if anyone here tries it, leave honest feedback in the comments and I’ll try to add some extra credits to your account. positive or negative is fine. mostly just want to know what’s useful and what still feels confusing.