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.

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 https://lwy907919-a11y.github.io/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 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.