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Dreamwork

a job search site I made after Indeed fired my pregnant wif

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Hey, I’m Colin and I have a fun story for you.My 7 month pregnant wife was laid off from Indeed (she was a PM there) back in December. This pissed me off quite a bit, as she was supposed to get 6 months leave and instead got fired.So I spent the last five months working part time to build Dreamwork, a platform aiming to make the job search experience actually better with AI (not just mass application spam).I started with just a telegram bot doing scraping, then advanced to Google Embeddings 2.0 for vectorizing the jobs, built out a tight 6 axis scorecard for both the user and each job.Then I actually got to use my English degree (lol) to optimize the prompt for custom per-job resumes and cover letters to make them not sound like - again - shitty AI.Most AI cover letters have a kind of consistently dead quality. They use all the keywords and somehow communicate nothing. I absolutely hate that, so I’ve been fairly obsessive about making the output feel more like a decent human draft: specific but restrained, and not stuffed with keywords.It is now useful enough that I think strangers can try it and find serious value.What it does today:- indexes ~100k curated tech jobs- tries to avoid stale/duplicate aggregator garbage- uses semantic matching instead of only keyword search- generates an “application pack” for each job: tailored resume, cover letter, and answers to common/custom questions- lets the user edit everything before applying- helps keep track of saved jobs and generated materialsAuto apply is the part I’m conflicted about. I do t think blindly spraying applications is good for the candidates (chance of hiring is already low, even with hard work and customization), recruiters (they’re swamped), or the world (we don’t need more slop).I’ll build auto apply out in some format, but I want to be thoughtful about it.I also built out a whole research section to map out layoffs and hiring trends. This will start to be super useful in a month or two.Anyways - it’s all free to use right now. Built originally out of spite, now becoming a real product.I’d love to get feedback on what elements would truly make this the career companion you’re looking for. Not - resume spray and pray platform, but something that will actually help you navigate this insane hiring economy we’re in.You can check it out here:https://dreamworkhq.com

HN · launched May 7, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: online job boards · 248 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▼ -3% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • HR & recruiting
  • Marketplace
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial The job board frontend and user account workflows are easily vibe-coded, but running a truly competitive job discovery engine requires complex multi-site scraping pipelines, ATS integrations, deduplication, and ongoing anti-scraping maintenance.

What it would actually take: A viable service requires a robust data ingestion pipeline built with tools like Playwright/Puppeteer or scrapers targeting Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday APIs, alongside Apache Airflow or Temporal for orchestrating continuous job syncs. Vector search (e.g. pgvector or Pinecone) and LLM-based entity extraction are needed for job matching, requiring ongoing infrastructure maintenance to handle anti-bot defenses across hundreds of company portals.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: seek.com.au, indeed.com, linkedin.com, other job-aggregator/application tools with AI

Concerns raised: Highly competitive market with many similar tools launching weekly, Name 'DreamWork' conflicts with DreamWorks animation studio, SEO disadvantage, Resume display takes up too much space on search results, Market size unclear - most jobs come through personal referrals

Feature requests: Support Australia as a region with job board integrations, Explain or rename 'pack' terminology

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 480 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #395 of 481 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 190 days after the earliest competitor.

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