ClaudeAI: Indeed laid off my pregnant wife, so I built a job search competitor with Claude. It just got its first three people hired.
Quick backstory: last December Indeed laid off my wife when she as ~7 months pregnant. She was a PM on their social impact team. That means we would be losing health insurance and critical income at possibly the worst time.
I was pissed (still am), my wife said their internal systems were falling apart, and Claude Code had just gotten good, so I decided to start building a competitor.
Eight months later: 4,300+ users, 91 paying (Almost $1k MRR), and the first three humans hired through it - one at Palantir, one at Accenture, one videographer. The recruiting industry's main trade publication (ERE, who I had never heard of) ran a feature on us last month.
And as you might have guessed, Claude build most of it:
- 1,100+ PRs merged in the first few months. Team of three, and one of us (me) is not technical - but have now written over 200 PRs.
- Ingests ~15,000 job listings a day straight from employer career pages, classifies and enriches them, and embeds them for semantic match (triggering emails for the best ones)
- Autopilot is launching soon. Application agents read the employer's actual ATS page and fill forms out for the user - Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, the long tail. No Chrome extension required. This was a b&tch to get right, but will be a game changer when we launch in a week (video attached).
My wife now has a job at Google and I'm still intent on putting Indeed out of business because the spite lives on.
Site is dreamworkhq.com if you want to check it out. Impeccable + my 5 years working at Apple influenced the design.
