🚀 Launched my first product: CraftedCV.io – An AI resume writer

Hey Indie Hackers,

I’m Michael, a solo entrepreneur who spent my evenings and weekends building CraftedCV.io—my first-ever product! I’m not a flashy Silicon Valley founder with a massive team. It’s just me, a laptop, and a drive to solve a massive pain point: applying to jobs sucks.

If you’re like me, you’ve spent way too many hours tinkering with your resume for each new job posting, only to wonder if some ATS robot is going to ghost you. That’s why I built Crafted CV—an AI-powered resume writer that rewrites your resume based on the job description and optimizes it for those pesky applicant tracking systems. All in one click.

🔥 The Pain Point

• ⏳ Time Drain: Rewriting your resume for every job you apply to can take hours. With economic uncertainty, more people are mass-applying, which leads to generic resumes → 0 interviews.

• 🤖 ATS Nightmares: If the ATS doesn’t like your formatting or keywords, you’re out before you even start.

• 😤 Frustration Overload: Not hearing back, or getting a “We decided to go another direction” after all that work.

💡 My Solution

Let’s cut the fluff and talk about the real value:

1️⃣ Simplicity – Paste your current resume, paste the job description. Click a button. Boom—AI rewrites it to match what the employer’s looking for.

2️⃣ ATS Optimization – No guesswork on keywords or formatting. The AI reformats and optimizes to keep those black-hole ATS systems happy.

3️⃣ Speed – Instead of taking hours or days, you can knock out multiple targeted resumes in minutes. That’s a 10x (or more) productivity boost.

🎯 Why I Built This

I’ve applied for dozens of jobs in the past, and each one demanded a different spin on my “experience.” I got tired of rewriting the same lines to match new keywords.

So I thought, “Why not automate the rewriting process?”

That’s how Crafted CV was born.

🔍 Where You Come In

I’m not here to brag about insane revenue or MRR (yet!). This is still a side project, and I’m looking for honest feedback and a handful of beta testers to help me shape the product.

🚀 What I Need From You

• Your unfiltered opinion on the user experience and AI output.

• Features you’d love to see (cover letters, LinkedIn optimization, etc.).

• Any bugs or quirks you notice while testing.

🎁 What You Get

• Free early access to the product (obviously).

• Direct line to me (literally my personal email) for suggestions.

• The satisfaction of helping a fellow Indie Hacker (and your future job-seeking self) crush it in the job market.

📢 Interested?

✅ Check out CraftedCV.io

✅ Interested in beta testing? Drop a comment or DM me!

I’ll be hanging here in the comments to answer any questions. Seriously—nothing is off the table. I’m pumped to finally show this to the world, and I’d love your input to make it better.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping me make job applications a little less soul-crushing!

— Michael (the entire dev/marketing/support team rolled into one)