I built ApplyX because job hunting broke me — here's what I learned

Hey PH community 👋

I'm Sahil, the maker of ApplyX. I wanted to share the story behind why I built this and what I learned shipping it.

Six weeks ago I was deep in a job search. I was applying to 20-30 jobs a day and the most painful part wasn't finding jobs, it was the email loop:

Copy job post → open ChatGPT → paste resume → generate email → cringe → edit → open Gmail → attach resume → send. Repeat 30 times.

I calculated I was spending 3+ hours a day just on outreach copy. That felt insane.

So I built ApplyX, a Chrome extension that lives on LinkedIn and does the entire loop in 1 click.

Here's how it works:

- Reads the LinkedIn job post automatically

- Fetches your uploaded resume from your dashboard

- Llama 3.1 via Groq generates a tailored cold email (~800ms)

- Auto-attaches your PDF resume

- Sends via Gmail API without leaving the page

A few decisions I'm proud of:

1. Self-hosted first your resume never touches my servers. You bring your own Supabase instance. Privacy by architecture, not by promise.

2. Free to run Groq's free tier handles thousands of generations per day. I didn't want cost to be a barrier for people who are job hunting (already a stressful time).

3. Open source (MIT) I want people to fork it, extend it, make it better. The main branch is protected, CONTRIBUTING.md is ready, and good first issues are tagged.

What I'd love from this community:

→ What features would actually move the needle for your job search?

→ Would you use this? What's missing?

→ Developers any interest in contributing?

GitHub: https://github.com/KIET7UKE/ApplyX

Thanks for checking it out. Happy to answer anything 🙏