I built a tool to help you find relevant job postings
Link: https://filtrjobs.com
I built Filtr a job board that matches your resumes to job postings using AI. It goes beyond using keywords so i find that it gives pretty high quality results
I built it because I was tired of job boards that gave irrelevant jobs and string matching based on title. Especially in ML where titles are often vague
Currently its almost at 10,000 users and 6,000 applications sent out. View stats here: https://filtrjobs.com/stats
I also pulled some clever tricks and I’m running this for 2-3$/month (and yes that includes parsing 40 Million tokens a month, location parsing, hosting, ML stuff, proxies) all without startup credits. It's all thru publicly available free tiers (except hosting which is via a student discount but theres a million low cost hosting options)
The Taro courses on side projects were extremely helpful. Here's my perspective as a backend focused person building webapps
How to get ideas
Just. Build.
You get ideas by organically running into problems. As I was building this I ran into so many problems that could be its own project (e.g. an app to generate cool demo videos like screenrun.app but free, an AI powered web scraping tool that runs by itself)
Build something, see if it gets traction, if it doesn't move on. You'll run into more problems as you build
How to design well
Just look thru all the similar products, note down what u like, what u don't like then just ask v0 to build the version that has everything u like - everything u dislike.
There is no excuse for bad UI
With the age of AI, cursor, v0, lovable.dev your v1 should ship (to strangers) with good UI. I had not even written a single line of frontend code before working on this, but with the help of AI i learned on the fly
The bar for software quality is very high, especially your frontend. If someone sees a terrible UI they assume your app sucks and its hard to get people to try it again
The caveat: Ship to people you know ASAP even if the UI sucks. These should be your core users who will be willing to use a shitty UI
80% of my frontend is written by AI. tbh i still cant write a simple if statement+for loop in java script without googling 🤐
I get v0 to generate the frontend, then ask Claude to stitch the logic as I need it to
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(6 comments)- 216 days agoMid Level Software EngineerTaro Community
How to market your app
I got most of my users from advertising on reddit. (1000+ upvotes, 2 awards, 100+ positive comments)
You need some amount of virality baked in for this to work. The subreddit you choose makes a big difference. More people = more views = more strict moderation. Start by posting on smaller subreddits. r/SideProjects is a great place to start
If you're pushing a side project thats free make sure to specify that, because reddit is super hard to promote content esp paid services (no one likes ads)
Make sure to provide value to users, reply to comments. I even offered free resume reviews to people in DMs (Took a page from Alex’s book)
Reddit is known for trolls/haters since its anonymous, so if youre able to get positive reviews from redditors then u know ur app is good (I mean no one on linkedin is gonna tell u to ur face ur app sucks, or even your close friends will sugar coat it a bit, but anons on reddit have no reason to be nice to you)
Then discord/slacks, then twitter. Twitter takes a long time but its super low effort. Just keep commenting and engaging. Twitter also has a good luck surface area as many startups and indie hackers are there. Not a huge fan of LinkedIn as you cant keep promoting ur app a lot and i dont want my manager/coworkers to see this
Your domain needs to be “google-able”
My first domain was rocketjobs.app but that domain would never rank 1st bc it was so crowded and so many other apps were also called that. You want something easy to remember (not some made up word, and something that ranks 1 on google p easy)
Most people visit apps by navigating from google (e.g. i type in taro on google and click first link) your app needs this otherwise ur traffic wont convert. i saw a huge spike in usage after this
You need a core group of people you know to be brutally honest about your app.
Get them to roast the UI, and u need to build every feature they want. Also have them upvote ur posts on reddit to give it an algo boost
Track and monitoring via sentry and posthog.
You need to use posthog and watch user activity and cringe, and fix issues. I have sentry send emails every single time my app hits an error in prod so i feel the pain of users. Again took this lesson from Alex's course on making sure ur code is rock solid and pay attention to edge cases
TL;DR: Dont overthink. Build. Ship. Talk to users. Repeat
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15 days agoAI/ML Eng @ Series C startupthis is awesome. keep us posted 🫣
- 115 days agoMid Level Software EngineerTaro Community
Glad you liked it! Feel free to drop any feature requests or if theres anything I can do to make it better for your job search
- 015 days agoAI/ML Eng @ Series C startup
not searching rn. but yeah. I found that all mainstream social media has garbage sponsored content as 90% of the feed, making something with less sponsored stuff is awesome
- 012 days agoFounder @ Yogi Sharma Coaching, Ex-Facebook
Awesome job!
Where are you pulling in the jobs from?
- 112 days agoMid Level Software EngineerTaro Community
Most of the jobs are directly scraped from careers pages. Some things like internships I am pulling from lists like this: https://github.com/cvrve/Summer2025-Internships
A lot of people I know are interns so I have put a strong emphasis on building a large collection of internship postings
