Launched my first product as a part time indie hacker: an AI powered CV and Cover letter builder

Hey IH 👋

I'm David, a senior engineer turned indie hacker. For the past few years, I've been involved in hiring and have reviewed hundreds of CVs.

Here's what kept bothering me: less than 10% looked professionally typeset. The rest were Word docs with wonky fonts, weird spacing, and zero personality. Most were clearly generic templates blasted to dozens of companies.

The uncomfortable truth? Some of the best candidates probably got filtered out in 15 seconds because their CV looked sloppy.

I ran into this problem myself too. Tailoring CVs for different roles, managing versions, spending way too long on each one. And don't get me started on cover letters - half the time I'd just close the tab when I saw "cover letter required."

So I built JobSprout - an AI-powered CV and cover letter builder that actually produces professional-looking documents.

What makes it different:

• Uses Typst (the LaTeX successor) for proper typesetting, not just pretty templates

• AI that YOU control - select text, tell it what to do. It doesn't rewrite your whole document

• $7/month vs the $20-30 everyone else charges

• Client-side compilation = instant previews, no loading spinners

Just launched on Product Hunt and got featured. Now figuring out what comes next.

Would love any feedback, questions, or roasts. What would make you switch from whatever you're using now?

🔗 jobsprout.ai