Resumes and job search

Solo founder · 9 months after launch, revenue falling

It sells one small result at a small one-time price: the first diagnosis is free, and the full analysis costs R$19.90 in Brazil or US$3.90 abroad, with no subscription. It takes Pix, the Brazilian instant-payment system, which most of its buyers use. A solo founder with an audience on X could launch it in days, and Stripe shows US$1,868 in the first full month.

Team of 2 to 10 · 36 months after launch, revenue growing

Many European employers, schools and public bodies ask for a CV in the Europass layout, and many applicants write it in a second language. Europass AI aims at one narrow group, skilled workers in construction, manufacturing and trades who apply across Europe, and lets an AI model write the text in the language they choose.

Solo founder · 19 months after launch, revenue growing

A job seeker needs a good resume for a few weeks, not for years. Rezly lets them start for free with no sign-up and then sells a short pass at the moment they want to download more than one PDF. The AI writing comes from OpenAI by the request, so one founder can offer the same tool in many languages.

Solo founder · 1 months after launch

Job seekers keep resumes, postings, reminders and interview notes in many tabs and files. Resumeaze puts the steps from the posting to the offer in one place and says that its AI keeps the user's facts. It is very new: the first verified payment came on 28 October 2026, and TrustMRR shows US$1.50 in total revenue on 3 November 2026. This page records a business at its first payment, not a proven one.

Team of 2 to 10 · 8 months after launch, revenue falling

Filling in the same facts on every employer's application form, and rewriting a resume for every job, is the slowest part of a job search for students and new graduates. The founder had already built a growth system for her first app: hundreds of paid short-video creators trained with her own course. She moved the same system to a job app, aimed at college students and recent graduates, who she says have more buying power than her beauty app's users.

Team of 2 to 10 · 7 months after launch

The founder had answered resume questions on Reddit for six years, and his free template had millions of users, so the AI tool launched to people who already trusted his format. It replaced a US$400 one-to-one review with a US$99 product that costs little to run.

Team of 2 to 10 · 10 months after launch

Two engineers with long careers in software and machine learning started it in 2023 and raised seed money before the public beta. The company says it grew from 50,000 users two months after the April 2024 beta to more than 520,000 in June 2025 without paid advertising. A leaderboard listed revenue of US$5 million a year with 9 employees, citing a co-founder's post.

Team of 2 to 10 · 94 months after launch, revenue falling

It put GPT-3 into a resume builder in December 2020 with a team of two, which the founder says no competitor did, so when ChatGPT made AI writing popular in January 2023 it already had a working product that ranked in search. Search traffic, two deal partners and free giveaways on Reddit brought the users without an advertising budget, and the company says it was profitable from 2020.

Team of 2 to 10 · 11 months after launch

The co-founders said that they had seen good candidates rejected by applicant tracking software before a person read their resumes. They launched on Product Hunt, wrote search pages with freelance writers, and sold a lifetime deal on AppSumo. Hareesh Vemasani told Starter Story in November 2025 that the business made about US$4,000 a month in recurring revenue.

Solo founder · 10 months after launch

The founder says it grew slowly: a Product Hunt launch with 3 votes, no audience and no waiting list, then users won one by one through content, outreach and personal conversations, and later through a subreddit that the founder runs. The founder's post of 26 July 2026 reported that this reached more than US$2,700 in monthly recurring revenue.

Solo founder · 15 months after launch, revenue falling

The founder said he built it for his own job search after a layoff in November 2022, when ChatGPT had just come out, and that it took 14 separate prompts to get the same material by hand. He said the business made US$1,250 a month in subscriptions plus about US$200 a month in pay-as-you-go sales in June 2024. In February 2026 he reported that traffic and monthly recurring revenue had declined over the past year because new customers did not make up for those who cancelled.

Solo founder · sold 2 months after launch

It appeared in May 2022, about six months before ChatGPT was released. The founder lists it under 2022 with 300 users in two months. It asked for money from the first archived copy, and FounderSold reports that he then sold it.

Team of 2 to 10 · sold 5 months after launch

Its founder said that everybody hates writing cover letters, and the first version solved only that task. He built it to be sold from the first day, listed it on a startup marketplace four months after the first version, and sold it to a US career-services company within five months.