I built an auto-apply tool, then found out a lot of "applications" never actually submit

quick build-in-public update, solo founder, no team.

backstory: i built a thing that auto-applies to jobs. felt great. then i started checking the receipts and noticed something uncomfortable. a chunk of "applied" jobs had no confirmation on the other end. the form filled, the button got clicked, nothing landed. the tool reported success. the job never got it.

filling boxes is easy. actually landing in the employer's system is the hard 10%. so i rebuilt the whole thing around one question: did this submission actually go through. now every auto-apply runs a verification pass and only calls it done when it can confirm (a confirmation page, a confirmation email, or the application showing in the candidate portal, two of three or it flags it). if it can't confirm, it says so instead of lying to you.

what i learned: the trust gap in this category is enormous because the audience has been burned by tools that count a filled form as a win. verification is the product, the apply is just the verb.

if you've used any auto-apply tool and felt unsure whether it really submitted, that feeling is the exact thing i'm building against. did you ever confirm one of those actually went through? how?

it's free to start if you want to poke at it: https://aiapplyd.com/?ref=indiehackers