Here’s how to use your biggest frustration to build something great

That frustration has to really come from within.

The best products aren't built from ideas. They come from a frustration so deep, you feel it in your bones.

Here is my little story that I wanted to share with you all.

My "moment of frustration" came when I saw a friend manually spending 30 minutes tailoring his resume for a single job application. I remembered my own 1-year brutal job search. It wasn't just tailoring my resume. It was:

• Finding recruiter emails.
• Begging for referrals.
• Emailing support desks to check on my application.

I tried everything. But the worst, most time-consuming part was manually tailoring my resume for every…single…job in order to have a chance to be seen.

I used ChatGPT and I still didn't get the result I wanted:

• It hallucinated and added skills I didn't have.
• It needed 10-20 chats before I got the result I wanted.
• It only outputted text, forcing me to spend 20 min reformatting into PDF each time
• The text was still robotic and stuffed with keywords.

All that, and I still got those auto-rejection emails from companies.

So when I saw my friend going through the same manual, repetitive, painful process, I knew there had to be a better way of doing this. Plus, I didn't want to go through this again when my time came next.

That is where I reached out to my friend who is an AI/ML engineer working on similar problems and we decided to tackle this with a single goal in mind: "Make the resume tailoring process frictionless"

And so, Careerbutler was born (launching on Product Hunt this Sunday 😀)

Here’s how we separate ourselves from the rest:
• Reverse-engineered major ATS systems (Greenhouse, Workday) to accurately score a resume and predict pass rate
• Process multiple jobs, tailor 10 resumes in the time it used to take for one
• Transparent reasoning so you understand what was optimized
• Trained on real recruiter insights, not just keywords
• No sneaky paywalls, easy cancellation when done

In my next post, I'll dive into why we built this despite the competition and free alternatives like ChatGPT.

What pain point or recurring frustration did you encounter that ultimately inspired you to create a solution rather than continuing to tolerate the problem?