The job search is broken.
Everyone knows it.
This is me trying to help.

If you’ve been through a job search recently, you already know how it feels. You spend real time on an application. You tailor your resume. You write something thoughtful. You hit submit. And then… nothing. No response. No rejection. Just silence.

You do it again the next day. And the day after that. For weeks. For months. And somewhere along the way, it stops feeling like a job search and starts feeling like shouting into a void.

And it’s not just hard on the people applying. Hiring managers are overwhelmed too. Their systems are flooded with applications, and the tools they use to sort through them are built for speed, not for actually finding the right person. Good people — people who would genuinely thrive in a role — get filtered out because a keyword didn’t match.

Nobody designed it to be this way. It just kind of… became this way. And it’s hard on everyone.

I know because I lived it.

I was self-employed for ten years. Built a few businesses, advised others, taught marketing in a college of business. Then I went back to a full-time role, and about a year in, found myself unexpectedly out of work.

I was lucky — I had the skills from being self-employed to keep money coming in while I searched. But I was also applying consistently. For ten months.

I sent hundreds of applications. I networked with people adjacent to every role I wanted. I made tailored versions of my resume, especially early on. But after a while, I lost steam. It’s hard not to.

I eventually found a great role in January 2026. I’m grateful for that. But the experience left a mark — not bitterness, just clarity. I kept thinking: this shouldn’t feel this bad for this many people.

So I built something.

During that same stretch of unemployment, I’d taught myself to build software. And for the first time — after starting multiple businesses over the years — I found something I genuinely cared enough about to turn into a product.

Hiremé is simple. You upload your resume, answer a few quick questions, and it creates a personalized page for each job you apply to. It pulls in the company’s branding, tells your story through the lens of what they’re looking for, and gives you a link you can share alongside your application.

It takes about 30 seconds. And it costs a dollar. I kept the price as low as I could because the people who need this most are the ones who can least afford another subscription.

I don’t have all the answers. I’m sure other people are working on this problem in their own ways. But if I can make a thing that’s genuinely useful to people in a hard spot, that feels like a worthwhile thing to spend my time on.

The irony isn’t lost on me.

A lot of people are out of work right now partly because of AI. And here I am, using AI to try to help them get back on their feet. There’s something a little absurd about that. But also something kind of beautiful — using the tool to restore some of the humanity that the process has lost.

We can’t fix the whole system. But maybe we can help people feel a little less invisible. Maybe we can help a hiring manager actually see someone they would have otherwise missed. And maybe that’s enough to start.