This will be my final product.
Bye Product Hunt 👋
I'm getting ready to launch my last product. It's called Seedling.cv, and it's the product I've actually needed for the last year. Seedling is a job search agent that scores open roles against everything you've done, shipping a tailored resume + cover letter per job. Not another "chat with your PDF" resume toy -- a complete index of your career accomplishments, narrowed into a few bullet points that match exactly what the job demands.
The honest origin: I know a lot of people (okay, people like me) who have been burning hundreds of dollars a month on tokens and shipping nothing. I'm currently sitting on a messy year of side projects / "stealth" / almost-products. I'm finally ready to admit that I should probably just shelve the startups and get a real job for a couple years. But... when I sat down to pick three bullets for my resume, nothing made sense. The cool stuff is too niche; the stuff with broader appeal is boring. Hiring managers never see the work that would actually match the role -- they see a gap year.
Seedling flips that:
Commit the whole messy history once (gaps, contracts, failed products, all of it, across all your work history)
Browse LinkedIn with our extension. Save jobs to Seedling. It works in the background to score and rank saved jobs (and ensure that they meet your requirements).
Generate custom resumes in bulk. Each resume gets a rewrite for that posting. We let the model run a little wild here... embellishments are encouraged. We run the final set of claims through an adversarial model that pushes back on anything you couldn't defend in an interview, but if the job posting wants Flask and you worked with FastAPI, I mean, just say Flask. All the skills transfer.
Apply with a version of your resume + cover letter that checks all the boxes: machine-readable, ATS-focused, PDF U/1 compliant, with work experience directly relevant to the job (even if we have to stretch a skill or two to make it fit).
Either there are a handful of people in the same boat as me... or I'll eat my own dogfood until I get hired... then turn off the servers. Playing the long game, I've found, has a real tendency to stretch on for months without hitting milestones.
I don't think I'll ever hit those milestones with a $19/month product. That's why our launch price is $200/month. That's what I spent on Claude 20x Max over the last year, and if you're buying this product, you're probably turning off your agent subscriptions, too. You can always pick them up again next month if you have a change of heart, but don't we all owe it to ourselves to check and see who's offering $300k + equity... and paying for our tokens?
Anyway, that got a too salesy -- I'm actually after opinions / hot takes / advice:
How much embellishment would you be comfortable with in a resume? We're never inventing the stuff that shows up in a background check, but do you lean toward "strictly facts" or "whatever it takes to get the interview." Should we make this a configurable, per-user setting, or enforce a tuning?
How much are you spending on tokens/AI subscriptions for pre-revenue products? I'm deciding if it's fair to suggest, "you can buy our product by cancelling your AI subscriptions for a month," or if most developers are going to think "...but my AI subscription is $20... and bills annually..."
What's a good way to launch this without a free trial? We're using Fable in critical areas... we'll get eaten alive by a free tier. I'm thinking "$5 gets you a demo that does three applications end-to-end."
Anybody else feeling last-project energy?
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