I got laid off in the first week of January. I spent the next few weeks applying to everything I could find.. and heard nothing back. So I started going to networking events and talking to hiring managers directly. The feedback was brutal but useful: stop sending the same CV everywhere, customise for every role, strip the fancy formatting because ATS systems reject it before a human ever sees it. I went home and started doing exactly that. The interview rate jumped. But my application rate fell off a cliff. Because tailoring a CV properly takes 25 minutes minimum. And using ChatGPT or Claude for it burned through credits faster than I could afford. So I built something for myself. A Chrome extension that reads a job posting, takes my master CV as the base, and generates a fully tailored, ATS-friendly Word file in under a minute. One month later I had an MVP. In the next two weeks I landed 6 interviews. Then I decided took it to a job fair. Not to sell it, just to show it as a project and hopefully get hired. Left with 3 people who wanted to test it. Went to another event. Got 6 more. That's when I realised this wasn't just a personal tool. I had something substantial that people would want to use. That was 3 weeks ago. Today we're here. If you're job hunting right now... This is built by someone who was in the exact same position two months ago. Would love your feedback, questions, and brutal honesty.

ApplyIn5 - Grammarly for Job Application

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