GhostJob

- 23 MAU

- $0 MRR (paid tier shipped 2 weeks ago, no conversions yet)

- 0 reviews on the Chrome Web Store

- Started after I realized I'd been applying to a "Posted 4 days ago" Senior PM role for 11 weeks straight

Goal: $350 MRR in 6 months (50 users × $7/month). Long path. Posting here partly to build the public record, partly because I want feedback before I sink more time into the v2 roadmap below.

## The market in 1 paragraph

Resume Builder's 2024 hiring-manager survey (covered widely in WSJ / NYT / BBC) found nearly 4 in 10 hiring managers admit their company has posted jobs with no real plan to fill — market research,

résumé collection, ATS auto-reposts of filled roles. The closest direct competitor — HideJobs — sits at ~3K CWS users on $4.99/month. That's roughly $15K MRR from a single-feature extension, which

tells me the willingness-to-pay floor is real. Demand isn't my problem. Differentiation is.

## What I built

A 0–100 "Ghost Score" overlay on Indeed / LinkedIn / Glassdoor postings (Likely Real / Caution / Likely Ghost). Signals: posting age, repost frequency, industry baseline, NLP keyword density. All

client-side, MV3, no data leaves the browser. Free tier is 10 checks/day with score breakdown + recent history. Pro is $6/month or $59 lifetime — unlimited checks, salary insights from the US BLS

public API, and priority support.

CWS: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ghostjob/mdjchaohgneaiflafheajamfomeccach

## Differentiation bet

HideJobs hides postings outright. I think that's wrong — a 65/100 posting at a company you really want is still maybe worth applying to. You just want to know what you're walking into. So GhostJob

exposes the signal instead of removing the listing. Different design philosophy, same underlying problem.

Whether that's the right call is the question I haven't proven yet.

## v2 roadmap (next 5 weeks)

- v2.0 (5/29) — English UI + LinkedIn EN parser. Currently JP-only, which is the single largest reason I'm at 23 MAU

- v2.1 (6/5) — Levenshtein-based "same description, new job ID" detection (the trick recruiters use to reset the "Posted today" clock)

- v2.2 (6/12) — Salary-range-required-by-law warning badge for the 7 US disclosure states

- v2.3 (6/26) — Company-level ghost rate (your last 6 months of postings per company)

Each release is a single CWS submission. Marketing is paired: Reddit post the day v2.1 ships, Dev.to writeup the week of v2.0.

## What I'm asking

1. If you've been mass-applying lately — what would make a "ghost detector" worth $6/month to you?

2. Is 60+ days posted my strongest red-flag signal, or am I over-indexing on age vs. repost frequency?

3. Anyone with a public CWS-based product crossed the "$300 MRR / 50 paid users" line on a niche extension? I'd love the post-mortem on what actually moved the needle.

I'll repost at 100 MAU, first paid conversion, and first review. Open to a wrong-answers-only roast on the v2 sequencing too.