Spent $200k building an AI job board platform only 30k users in 2 months

Our Job board was born from a simple frustration: every time you apply for a job, you waste hours re-entering the same information over and over again.
So we built an AI agent that applies to jobs for you (end to end) intelligently matching your profile to openings, customizing applications for each role, and tracking your progress in real time.

No more repetitive forms.
No more “upload CV and fill it all in again” nightmares.

Just one profile, infinite opportunities, and an AI that works for you 24/7.

Two months after launch: 30,000 users. On paper, that sounds decent. In reality, it feels like a disaster compared to what we expected.

We imagined explosive growth.
Viral adoption.
A hockey-stick curve that would have investors salivating and users flooding in.

Instead, what we’re staring at is… stubbornly, painfully, frustratingly flat.
The curve barely moves, as if mocking the hours, the late nights, and the sheer belief we poured into building this.

We’ve tested.
We’ve iterated.
We’ve talked to users, tweaked the onboarding, rewritten copy, polished the UX until it gleamed and still, the needle refuses to budge.

So here we are, at that uncomfortable but inevitable startup crossroad:

• Do we pivot to B2B, selling our tech directly to recruiters and HR teams?
• Do we partner with job boards, integrating seamlessly into their ecosystems?
• Or do we keep it free for job seekers, betting on a different monetization path down the road?

The product works.
The mission is solid.
But growth? Growth is the dragon we haven’t yet slayed.

Because right now, building the product was the easy part.