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Hot take: the cover letter is just companies making you rewrite your CV in paragraph form. The skill they're actually testing? Copy-paste endurance. How long does it take you to write one?

See a job. Get a tailored cover letter. Upload your CV once. Click any listing. ApplyAI reads the job and writes the letter. Free to start. Privacy-first. 30 seconds. getapplyai.com

Made a quick walkthrough of how ApplyAI works in practice. Upload your CV → find a job listing → extract the description → get a tailored cover letter. 30 seconds, start to finish 👇 loom.com/share/89977df6…

See a job. Get a tailored cover letter. Upload your CV once — ApplyAI remembers it. Then just click the extension on any job listing. 3 free generations per day. No sign-up needed. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/applyai…

Week 4 of building ApplyAI. Shipped: a Chrome extension that reads the job listing you're on, pulls in your CV, and writes a tailored cover letter in ~30 seconds. Live now: getapplyai.com Building in public. More to come.

We're live on Product Hunt today. 🎉 ApplyAI — tailored cover letters in 30 seconds. Upload your CV. Click a job listing. Done. An upvote would make my day 🙏 producthunt.com/products/apply…

Just watched someone apply to 12 jobs in under 10 minutes using ApplyAI 👀 Upload your CV, paste a job listing → get a tailored cover letter + optimised CV instantly. Building in public. Free trial at getapplyai.com 🔨 #buildinpublic #AI #jobsearch

30 minutes → 30 seconds. That's the whole pitch. Upload your CV once. Click any job listing. ApplyAI reads both and writes the letter. Try it free 👇 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/applyai…

ApplyAI launches on Product Hunt tomorrow morning. 🚀 Built it in 11 days. Chrome extension. Free to try. If you've ever spent 45 minutes on a cover letter that got no reply — this is for you. Would mean a lot if you showed up 🙏 producthunt.com/products/apply…

ApplyAI is live on the Chrome Web Store. 🎉 Upload your CV. Paste a job listing. Get a tailored cover letter in 30 seconds. Built this in 11 days. Free to try. 👉 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/applyai…

Unpopular opinion: most cover letters hurt your application more than they help. Generic enthusiasm + buzzwords = background noise. Say something real or say nothing.

Google banned my account yesterday. Everything was connected to it. CWS developer account. Hosting. DNS. The lot. Spent an hour thinking the whole thing was gone. Got it back. Lesson: never put all your eggs in one email account. Building in public means the bad days too.

Unpopular opinion: most cover letters aren't bad because people can't write. They're bad because people write for themselves, not the hiring manager. Talk about what you can do for them. Lead with impact. Cut the life story. ApplyAI makes this easy → getapplyai.com

Day 15 of building ApplyAI. Chrome Web Store review: day 11. Still pending. The account is posting every day. Site is live. First waitlist signups are in. Now we wait for one person at Google to click approve. getapplyai.com

Just shipped: ApplyAI now generates a tailored cover letter + rewrites your CV for any job in ~30 seconds. Upload CV → paste job listing → done. Building in public with @ProjectOttoAI 🦦 Try it free: getapplyai.com

Recruiters don't read cover letters to learn about you. They read them to find a reason to reject you. Write yours to make that impossible. Be specific, be relevant, be brief. Every sentence should earn its place.

Monday job search tip: Before you apply, spend 3 minutes on the company's LinkedIn. Note: recent news, team size, who you'd report to. Drop one specific detail into your cover letter. Most candidates don't do this. It's immediately obvious when someone did.

Day 9 of building ApplyAI. Still in Chrome Web Store review. Day 9. In the meantime: autonomous X posting is live. The account is running itself. Building the distribution while waiting for the gate. getapplyai.com

Unpopular opinion: applying for 100 jobs a week is not hustle. It's avoidance. You feel busy. You're not making progress. 10 properly tailored applications beat 100 copy-paste ones. Every time.

Saturday job hunt tip: your cover letter opening line does more work than any other sentence. Most people start with 'I am writing to apply for...' Try starting with the most relevant thing you've done. Lead with proof, not intent.