{"slug": "show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup", "title": "Show HN: AI mock interview tool that scores your answers – free, no signup", "summary": "InterviewPracticeAI, founded by Ben, launched a free AI mock interview tool that scores user answers and provides recruiter-grade feedback without requiring signup. The tool uses Anthropic's Claude to generate tailored questions from a user's CV and job description, supporting voice or text responses. It aims to help job seekers practice interviews with specific, actionable coaching.", "body_md": "# Walk into your next interview knowing exactly what to say.\n\nUpload your CV and the job description. Practice with an AI that thinks like a real interviewer. Get feedback that's actually specific.\n\nOverall match\n\n\"Responsible for roadmap planning across the product team.\"\n\n\"Owned the Q3 roadmap — shipped 4 of 5 planned features, lifting weekly active users 18%.\"\n\nYour CV scored across four recruiter pillars with flagged lines and rewrites.\n\nProof, not promises\n\n## See exactly what you get — before you sign up\n\nNo filler. Add the role and your CV, answer one AI-generated question, and get a recruiter-grade score with specific fixes. Here's the entire flow.\n\nThe flow, end to end\n\n- 1\nAdd the role + your CV\n\nPaste a job title, the job description, and your CV. The AI reads all three.\n\nGot a CV? Run a CV review too — a match score and your weak lines rewritten.\n\n- 2\nGet a tailored question\n\nHR, Behavioral (STAR), Technical or Motivation & Fit — generated for that exact role, and read aloud if you want.\n\n- 3\nAnswer out loud or by typing\n\nSpeak and we transcribe it — edit before you submit — or just type. Like the real thing.\n\n- 4\nScore + coaching in seconds\n\nA score out of 100, what worked, what to fix, and a stronger model answer.\n\n“Tell me about a time you managed conflicting priorities under a tight deadline.”\n\n“When two product launches landed in the same week, I…”\n\nWhat went well\n\nClear STAR structure — you set the scene and owned your specific actions.\n\nWhat to improve\n\nQuantify the result. “Cut the delay by 3 days” beats “it worked out.”\n\nSuggested answer\n\n“I ranked both launches by revenue impact, aligned the leads in a 15-minute call, and shipped the higher-value one first — hitting the deadline with a 3-day buffer.”\n\nExample — you get feedback like this on every answer.\n\nPowered by Claude — Anthropic's frontier AI.\n\n## Hi, I'm Ben\n\nFounder of InterviewPracticeAI\n\nI built this while helping my girlfriend prepare for her job interviews. We'd sit together, I'd play the interviewer, and she'd practice her answers out loud. It worked amazingly — but I couldn't always be there.\n\nSo I thought: what if AI could be that practice partner? One that's always available, never judges, and gives genuinely useful feedback every time.\n\nThat's how InterviewPracticeAI was born. It's a product I built from scratch and actively maintain — no big corporation, no investors, just a direct line between me and the people using it.\n\nPricing\n\n## Simple, pay-as-you-go\n\n[try one question for free](/try) — no account needed. Then 1 free credit on signup, plus 1 more every day.\n\n1 free credit every day. Forever. No card needed.\n\nUnlimited questions for 7 days\n\nIdeal if you have multiple interviews lined up or want an intensive prep week — no credits deducted, no limits.\n\n[Get Unlimited Access](/auth?intent=unlimited_pass)\n\nA quick warm-up for one role or a single round you want to rehearse.\n\n[Start with 5 questions](/auth?intent=starter)\n\nEnough to cover one full round — HR plus behavioural, or a technical screen end-to-end.\n\n[Start with 10 questions](/auth?intent=standard)\n\nRunway for multiple roles — covers HR, behavioural and technical rounds with room to spare.\n\n[Start with 50 questions](/auth?intent=full_prep)\n\nEvery plan includes\n\n- AI-tailored questions from your CV\n- Speech-to-text with real-time transcription\n- Detailed feedback after every answer\n- Multiple interview types (HR, STAR, Technical)\n- Session summaries with scores\n- Progress history saved to your dashboard\n\nThe honest comparison\n\n## Why not just use ChatGPT?\n\nHonestly? It's a great tool. We use it ourselves. But for practising real interviews, ChatGPT falls short on three things.\n\n### Tailored questions, not prompt engineering\n\nWe generate questions from your actual CV and job description — weighted to the role, automatically. With ChatGPT, you're starting from a blank prompt. Most candidates don't know what a real interviewer will ask; we do.\n\n### Voice answers and transcript review\n\nSpeak your answer, read back the transcript, edit it, then submit for scoring. It's the closest thing to a real interview. ChatGPT's voice mode is conversational — there's no structured practice loop, no editable transcript, and no score at the end.\n\n### A scoring rubric, not vibes\n\nEvery answer gets a 0–100 score across relevance, structure, examples, and communication. You can see your average climb across sessions. ChatGPT gives feel-good prose that sounds the same on every answer.\n\nWhat ChatGPT does better\n\nDrafting your CV, writing cover letters, brainstorming questions, summarising notes. Use it for those — we don't try to. We do one thing: graded interview practice that feels like the real thing.\n\nFAQ\n\n## Common questions\n\nStill have questions?\n\nDrop by our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/2MvNh7dS) or [email us](mailto:contact@interviewpracticeai.com). We usually reply within a few hours.\n\n[Try it for free](/try)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup", "canonical_source": "https://interviewpracticeai.com", "published_at": "2026-07-19 08:58:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 09:21:11.456243+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["InterviewPracticeAI", "Ben", "Claude", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-mock-interview-tool-that-scores-your-answers-free-no-signup.jsonld"}}