im a product designer, and im sick of how inhumane the job hunt feels

im a product designer, and a bit ago i was chatting with a friend who had just been laid off. she was walking me through her daily routine just to cope with the job hunt. she was waking up, staring at a blank screen, trying to guess what arbitrary keywords a bot wanted from her, and rewriting her accomplishments until she didn't even recognize herself. she was getting ghosted by everyone, even pretty big companies.

she told me, "it just makes you feel invisible."

that conversation completely stuck with me. the emotional side of trying to find work right now is so brutal, tedious, and honestly just pretty inhumane. you send your resume into a black hole and get ghosted by the majority of them. i couldn't help but think that there must be a way to make it at least a little easier, so I built a tool called ResumeLime.

i wanted to make something that brings a little humanity back to this pretty much insane process. as a product designer myself, i hated all the cold, sterile corporate software vibes out there, so i made it feel fresh and light.

the main thing i wanted to fix was how AI is used here. right now, most career tools just dump generic chatgpt fluff onto your resume and make you sound like a robot. it hallucunates and lies. that’s not helpful.

so with ResumeLime, i started with a keyword checker built from a real, human-curated list of recruiter insights, not AI fluff. and when the AI helps you rewrite parts of it, it’s 100% locked to your actual truth and real history. no corporate fluff.

it won't fix the whole broken job market overnight. but i wanted to make the heaviest part of applying just a little bit lighter. to help you match what recruiters want without losing your actual voice.