My husband and I both have full-time jobs. He studied CS and founded a small VC backed company. I’m the head of growth at a healthtech startup. Building small products is our little escape.

Recently, he started coding again after years of barely doing it (mostly using Claude, Cursor, Lovable). After a few false starts, we found an idea we both wanted to explore, and that’s how Power Apply was born.

Late last year I was on a walk with a friend who happened to be job hunting. She was venting about how messy the process is: filling out the same forms over and over, keeping multiple CV versions updated, writing cover letters that sound like you really want that job (having bills to pay isn't apparently persuasive enough). That night I went on reddit and found hundreds of the same complaints. I also tried a few products that aim to fix it, but found them all a bit sloppy (and expensive).

Today, Power Apply does three things: - parses a master CV and generates a tailored version for any role, using the job description to decide what to emphasize and how to phrase it; - auto-fills job applications via a chrome extension (with review/edit before submitting); - tracks the entire job search in one place (saved, applied, interviewing, rejected)

It’s free.

I'm planning to document the journey from 0 to 100 users publicly, mostly to keep myself accountable (i have some ideas i'm curious to test and share). I’ve posted on HN before - mostly full time job related stuff - and the feedback was always really helpful (and blunt).

If you’re job hunting (or applying casually), I’d really appreciate your honest critique - on the product or the problem. What would be helpful that’s currently missing? If you try it, what sucks?