Every resume I get now is a 90%+ match and then you interview them and it's clear they don't know anything claimed on the resume.
Do not use these, I can smell AI resumes from a million miles away and instantly discard them.
Best advice I have for people is hand write your resume in a visibly clean layout, and tailor it to the job. Do not use bots either because they make dumb mistakes like leaving markdown in, or submitting 15 seconds after the posting comes online.
Short story: I kept seeing people get filtered out by ATS systems before a human read their resume. The existing resume builders are $24–30/mo, and their "AI" is mostly Madlibs-style templates. I wanted to see if I could ship something better at a fraction of the price.
Technical notes, since this is HN:
- Next.js 16 + React 19 on Vercel. App router, RSC where it makes sense, client components where they don't.
- Supabase for auth + Postgres. Row-level security on resume data.
- Claude (Anthropic) for the AI pieces — bullet rewriting, keyword extraction from job descriptions, ATS scoring.
- Stripe for subscriptions, feature gating in lib/subscription.ts.
- Resend for transactional email.
- PDF export uses a server-side renderer with ATS-safe fonts (no fancy CSS that trips parsers).
What I'd genuinely love feedback on:
1. The ATS checker — I'm using keyword frequency + section completeness + formatting checks. Is there a better approach? Some parsers are black boxes and I'm guessing at behavior.
2. Prompt design for the bullet rewriter — I'm passing (old bullet, job context, tone preference) and asking Claude to produce 3 variants with metrics. Trade-off is "invented numbers" vs "vague placeholders."
3. Pricing — $2/mo. Too low? I'm worried about signaling "cheap = bad."
Free tier lets you build a full resume and see everything. Paywall hits when you download without a watermark.
Would love brutal technical or product feedback. Happy to answer anything about the stack or decisions.
Every resume I get now is a 90%+ match and then you interview them and it's clear they don't know anything claimed on the resume.
Do not use these, I can smell AI resumes from a million miles away and instantly discard them.
Best advice I have for people is hand write your resume in a visibly clean layout, and tailor it to the job. Do not use bots either because they make dumb mistakes like leaving markdown in, or submitting 15 seconds after the posting comes online.
Hey HN — Haroon here, solo dev on this.
Short story: I kept seeing people get filtered out by ATS systems before a human read their resume. The existing resume builders are $24–30/mo, and their "AI" is mostly Madlibs-style templates. I wanted to see if I could ship something better at a fraction of the price.
Technical notes, since this is HN:
- Next.js 16 + React 19 on Vercel. App router, RSC where it makes sense, client components where they don't. - Supabase for auth + Postgres. Row-level security on resume data. - Claude (Anthropic) for the AI pieces — bullet rewriting, keyword extraction from job descriptions, ATS scoring. - Stripe for subscriptions, feature gating in lib/subscription.ts. - Resend for transactional email. - PDF export uses a server-side renderer with ATS-safe fonts (no fancy CSS that trips parsers).
What I'd genuinely love feedback on:
1. The ATS checker — I'm using keyword frequency + section completeness + formatting checks. Is there a better approach? Some parsers are black boxes and I'm guessing at behavior. 2. Prompt design for the bullet rewriter — I'm passing (old bullet, job context, tone preference) and asking Claude to produce 3 variants with metrics. Trade-off is "invented numbers" vs "vague placeholders." 3. Pricing — $2/mo. Too low? I'm worried about signaling "cheap = bad."
Free tier lets you build a full resume and see everything. Paywall hits when you download without a watermark.
Would love brutal technical or product feedback. Happy to answer anything about the stack or decisions.