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Dossier v1
Tailored resumes and cover letters, on your own server
Dossier keeps your career history in one profile. Paste a job posting and it shows how you match, then drafts a tailored resume and cover letter that only use facts from your profile. What's missing shows up as a gap, never as invented experience. Refine them in a chat, download PDFs, and track every application from draft to offer. It runs on your own server with Docker Compose and the AI model you pick, including a local one through Ollama. Free and open source.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Aien, the maker of Dossier.
My wife is a software engineer, and her job search took almost 10 months. There were lots of portals and lots of postings, and tailoring her resume to each one took ages. So I built Dossier for her, to find postings, apply, and get a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each one. She landed a job with it, so I open-sourced it for anyone in the same spot.
What it does, on your own server:
• One profile, and a tailored resume and cover letter for every job you paste in
• A match view that shows what the posting asks for and what your profile covers. Anything missing shows up as a gap: it never invents experience
• Refine the drafts in a chat, undo, or go back to any earlier version, then download PDFs
• An email to go with each application, ready to send from your mail app
• A board, a table and a funnel for every application, from draft to offer
• Twelve resume themes and a theme builder
• The AI model you choose: a local one through Ollama (then nothing leaves your server), any OpenAI-compatible API, or Anthropic
It's free and open source (AGPL-3.0) and runs as two containers with Docker Compose, on a small VPS or your laptop.
I'd love your feedback on three things:
1. What would stop you from self-hosting it?
2. Which job source or feature should come next?
3. If you try a local model, which one did you use, and how did the writing hold up?
I'll answer every question here.
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About Dossier v1 on Product Hunt
“Tailored resumes and cover letters, on your own server”
Dossier v1 was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Dossier keeps your career history in one profile. Paste a job posting and it shows how you match, then drafts a tailored resume and cover letter that only use facts from your profile. What's missing shows up as a gap, never as invented experience. Refine them in a chat, download PDFs, and track every application from draft to offer. It runs on your own server with Docker Compose and the AI model you pick, including a local one through Ollama. Free and open source.
Dossier v1 was featured in Open Source (69k followers), Artificial Intelligence (481.6k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Career (2.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 188.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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