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I Sent 200 Resumes With Zero Callbacks. So I Built an AI That Interviews You First.

A developer built HirePilot, an AI-powered tool that interviews job seekers to surface their accomplishments and generate ATS-optimized resumes. After sending 200 resumes with zero callbacks, the developer used HirePilot to rewrite their own resume, resulting in 4 callbacks in 2 weeks and a job at a Series B SaaS company. The tool uses 8 specific questions to extract 3-5x more material than a typical resume and is built with vanilla JS and Gemini 2.0 Flash.

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Six months ago, I sent 200 resumes and got zero callbacks. Not a single interview. I thought I was the problem.

I was wrong. The problem was that my resume didn't surface what I'd actually done.

Most job seekers undersell themselves. Not because they're modest — because they forget.

In 8 years of building B2B products, I had launched 3 product lines worth $1M+ in revenue. I had led 8-person teams. I had shipped features used by 50,000+ people. None of that was on my resume.

Why? Because I focused on my job duties ("managed team", "led product roadmap") instead of my outcomes.

I rewrote my resume by hand. Got 0 callbacks. Rewrote it again. Still 0. Spent $400 on a professional resume service. Got 0 callbacks.

The issue wasn't writing — it was that I didn't know what to include.

Most AI resume tools are rewrites. They take what you wrote and paraphrase it. That's the wrong starting point — because the input is bad.

I built HirePilot differently. It asks you 8 specific questions first: These questions surface 3-5x more material than a typical resume. The AI then writes an ATS-optimized resume using what you actually said.

I ran my own resume through HirePilot. The AI caught 3 product launches I had never mentioned. Quantified my impact. Predicted 5 interview questions I got asked almost word-for-word.

Result: 4 callbacks in 2 weeks. Hired at a Series B SaaS. The first 3 questions are free. Full 8-step interview + ATS-optimized resume rewrite from $9 once, or $49 lifetime.

→ https://lwy907919-a11y.github.io/hirepilot Built solo. Vanilla JS + Gemini 2.0 Flash. Hosted on GitHub Pages. Real AI, not a wrapper.

If you're job searching right now and stuck in the same loop I was, give it 8 minutes. Worst case, you wasted 8 minutes. Best case, you get 4 callbacks. Built by an indie dev who's been in the same boat. Happy to answer questions about the AI approach or the ATS scoring.

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