The ApplyMaxxing desktop app dashboard showing application counts and a list of recent applications

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Apply
Maxxing

It tailors your resume to whatever job you're looking at, fills out the application for you, and keeps the whole search in one tracker. It all runs on your own machine, so your data never leaves it.

Sheet 02 of 07/The problem

The same information, over and over

Every job wants the same information typed into its own form in its own way, so I built something that retypes it for me.

A table of job applications with columns for company, location, industry, salary and status, above summary tiles
PL 02The tracker holds every application with its company, location, salary range and stage, and keeps the exact resume that was sent.
The resume editor: a form of experience bullet points beside a live preview of the formatted resume
PL 03Resume tailoring, with the editable source on the left and the rendered document on the right, so nothing is rewritten out of sight.
A list of job postings, each row tagged with a green Match badge or a red Underqualified badge
PL 04Saved postings are scored against the profile and marked Match or Underqualified, which is the step that decides what is worth applying to.

Sheet 03 of 07/Local first

No account, no login

The browser extension connects straight to the app running on your own machine, so saving a job is one click, no account and no login.

The cover letter screen with tone and style controls on the left and a generated letter on the right
PL 05Cover letters are written from a story bank of real anecdotes rather than from the job description alone.
The profile screen listing work experience, education and other saved application data
PL 06The profile is entered once: work history, education, projects and the demographic answers every form asks for again.
The extension popup reading Connected, with buttons to open the app and save the current job
PL 07The browser extension after it has found the desktop app on a local port: no account, no login, just Save This Job.

Sheet 04 of 07/No guessing

It doesn't make things up

It fills out the form itself and flags every field green, yellow or red for how sure it is, but you always click submit yourself. Same with the resume AI: it can rewrite what's already in your profile, it can't invent a skill or a job title you don't have.

Sheet 05 of 07/What's shipped

A real product, not a demo

This isn't a demo, it's a shipped product with its own website, its own billing, a free tier, paid plans and a lifetime option, and I built and run all of it by myself.

A job posting open in a browser with the ApplyMaxxing extension popup overlaid at the right

Sheet 06 of 07/Next

Whatever email signals turns out to be

The dashboard already has a panel called email signals that just says coming soon, so that's next, whatever it ends up being.

PL 08The extension over a live posting, which is where the whole loop starts: one click sends the job to the app.

Sheet 07 of 07/Source

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