Prepping for Beta, Building With Customers, and Avoiding the Guessing Game

Getting closer with Job Tracker, beta signups, and bespoke AI demos for customers.

We’re almost there.

Job Tracker is nearly ready to share with the first wave of beta users who signed up. I’ve been putting the final touches on it — fixing layout quirks, testing the job link scraping, obsessing over resume versioning (again). It’s not perfect, but it’s finally at that “good enough to be useful” stage. If you want in on the beta, you can sign up here.

And while I’ve been doing that, I’ve also been deep in demo land.

Lately, I’ve been building out a bunch of AI-powered demos for different customers — some to help with job matching, some for support workflows, some to summarize internal docs — and if I’m honest, it’s a grind. Not because the tech is hard (although, yes, prompt engineering is the new debugging), but because figuring out what to build is the real challenge.

It’s tempting to guess what people want and just whip something together. But more often than not, that leads to “neat” rather than “wow.” The only way to get to the wow is to talk to real users, figure out where they’re stuck, and build with that in mind.

So that’s what I’ve been doing: lots of conversations, lots of rough drafts, lots of asking “Would this actually save you time?” before writing a single line of code.

Eventually, once I’ve seen the same patterns a few times, we’ll wrap those demos up into something reusable. But for now, it’s all about listening, iterating, and doing the messy work upfront so we’re not just building shiny tools — we’re building stuff that actually makes someone’s day better.

More soon, especially once the beta is out the door.