Building a Job Tracker SaaS — looking for feedback

Hey Anson, going to give you some brutal but honest feedback here!

First, clean up the landing page ASAP, you still have template placeholder text like "Clear problem statement" live on the site, which makes it look unfinished.

To answer your question, most people just use a free Notion or Google Sheets template, and that's your biggest hurdle right now. You're building a vitamin, not a painkiller; job seekers don't want to do more manual data entry, they just want to get hired. Unless you build a feature that actually does the heavy lifting for them (like AI auto-filling applications), it's going to be nearly impossible to get unemployed people to pay for this over a free spreadsheet. :)

Even this early, I would not keep it as one generic job tracker page. The person leaving spreadsheets, the person missing follow-ups, and the person juggling interviews are arriving with different questions.

I’d make a small cluster: spreadsheet alternative, follow-up reminder tracker, interview pipeline tracker, and job search organizer for heavy applicants. That gives you clearer feedback because each visitor lands on the exact use case they care about.

For context, I'm building Clustra which does this automatically and happy to generate a free example for your product if useful: clustra[dot]nanocorp[dot]app

This is a pretty neat tool actually. I don't you but I'm proud of you! Lol I like what your doing here. I'm new to the game as well so from one new start up to another, don't give up.. you've got something pretty cool going on

Spreadsheet honestly — but the problem is it breaks down fast once you're applying to 20+ places. The status tracking alone would've saved me a lot of confusion. Curious whether you're planning email reminders for follow-ups, that's the thing spreadsheets can't do at all.

Building a dedicated tracker definitely beats getting lost in a messy spreadsheet, Anson! Figuring out exactly which niche of job seekers is actively searching for a new tool instead of just defaulting to Notion is usually the hardest part. To skip that guesswork, we actually built an AI agent that automatically validates those exact global market gaps for you before you even write a single line of code. Great start on the MVP!

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The honest answer for me has been spreadsheets, but the real reason isn't that spreadsheets are good — it's that they're already open. That's the actual competitor every job-tracker indie product needs to think about: not Notion or Huntr, but the tab that's already there. From my own small iOS side project (a Captio-style memo app for one narrow audience), the only feature that ever moved the needle was eliminating one step the user otherwise had to take in another app. So my pushback as a friendly user: the moment that converts me isn't 'manage applications cleanly,' it's 'remember the follow-up date so I don't have to.' What's the one painful job-search moment your tool removes that a spreadsheet structurally can't?

“Job tracker” is the feature.
The real problem is application chaos, missed follow-ups, and decision fatigue.
That’s the product people actually pay to fix.
Right now this is competing with Notion, Sheets, Teal, Huntr, and every other tracker on utility alone.
That’s a hard place to win unless the product becomes meaningfully better at reducing search fatigue, not just logging applications.
And if you keep building it, the naming should evolve too.
Something like Lyriso.com gives this much more room to become a real career product instead of staying boxed in as another generic tracker.

Congrats on putting this out there, Anson!

I actually ran your URL through my tool to find the 'Trust Leaks.' Since you're targeting job seekers, data trust is everything.

I generated a quick audit for you here:
🔗 https://roastmylanding.vercel.app/roast/estLUZD-

The main heading 'Stop losing track of job applications across tabs and spreadsheets' is descriptive but not benefit-driven. It focuses on the problem, not the solution's outcome.

I'm currently offering a 50% discount (Code: TRUSTLEAK50) if you want the full 10-point roadmap to fix the conversion gaps. Keep building! 🚀