Appliqu

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Niclas, co-founder and CEO of Appliqu. This started in an interview. I was interviewing Alexey, now my co-founder and CTO, and somewhere in the conversation he mentioned, almost as an aside, that he'd built an agent that applied to jobs for him. He wasn't job hunting anymore. He'd automated himself out of the process entirely. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Not because it was clever engineering, though it was, but because of the obvious follow-up question: why does everyone else still do this by hand? So we started building it properly, together, to take it to market and get it into the hands of people who don't happen to have a backend engineer's skill set. The tools that existed all optimised the wrong step. Resume builders make one document faster. Trackers make it easier to watch yourself fail. Job boards make browsing marginally less painful. Nobody was asking whether the human should be in that loop at all. So we built an agent instead of a tool. You tell Appliqu what role you want, upload your CV, and stop. From there 27 specialised agents scan 500+ ATS boards and job portals across 37 countries every two minutes, a multi-model LLM stack scores every opening against your actual profile, and matched roles get a tailored CV and cover letter submitted automatically. It keeps running until an interview invitation arrives. Two things changed while building it: We underestimated how much the matching mattered. Our first version applied too broadly and users hated it, not because it wasted applications, but because it made them feel like they were spamming. Precision turned out to be a trust feature, not an efficiency one. Now nothing goes out below your threshold, and every match shows its reasoning. We built it EU-first and it made the product better. We're a German company, so GDPR and the AI Act weren't optional. That forced a human-in-the-loop default, per-tenant data isolation at the database level, and a genuine consent moment before anything fully autonomous runs. Constraints we initially resented turned into the thing that makes people comfortable handing over their job search. Free tier, no card. Would love to hear where it breaks, especially if you're job hunting outside Germany, since coverage depth varies by market and we want to know where the gaps are. Happy to answer anything in the comments today.