Back in the market, suddenly.
After years of experience I was opening LinkedIn at 7am for the first time in a while. The tools hadn't moved on. Tailoring a resume still took me an evening per job.
Week 00the prompt
Chapter one - The story so far
From a sudden setback to the tool I wish I'd had.
Careerkit started the week I unexpectedly found myself back in the job market and realised every tool I reached for was slower, clunkier and less honest than I remembered. Two weeks later, I shipped the first version.
Like many of you, I've lived the uncertainty of a sudden job loss, that stretch of days where every application feels heavier than the last, and no tool I tried actually felt like it was on my side.
That stretch became the thing I couldn't sit still with. If I was frustrated, I knew millions of people opening the same tabs at the same hour were frustrated too, and a better job-search toolkit felt overdue. So I built one.
What follows is how I put Careerkit together in a handful of weeks in late 2024, what I wanted to build, what I chose to leave out, and where I'm pointed next. No pitch deck, no revisionist history. The same story I'd tell you over coffee.
— Yours, Nishant
The turning point
Four weeks, start to ship.
No runway, no seed round, no three-month roadmap. Just the shortest line between a personal problem and a working tool the rest of the world could use too.
Sketching an honest editor.
Paper, an old Figma file, and a list of every small frustration I kept hitting: templates that broke ATS, "AI" that rewrote my voice into someone else's, tools that wouldn't let me export cleanly.
Week 01the shape
Two weeks of real build.
Editor, five templates, a tailoring pass that reads the JD and keeps your words where they were good. Me, one laptop, a lot of coffee and several rewrites of the bullet engine.
Week 02-03the build
Careerkit goes live.
I launched quietly to friends-of-friends looking for roles. The first thousand users showed up inside a month, almost entirely by word of mouth. I've been iterating in public ever since.
Week 04launch
Why we're here
Every job seeker deserves tools that work as hard as they do.
Careerkit exists to level the playing field, professional-grade career tools for everyone, no matter their budget, background, or how many times they've been told to "just network more".
Your success is the only metric that matters to me. I keep the free plan genuinely free, I don't dark-pattern my way into your upgrade, and I read every email that comes in. If something's broken, I'd rather hear about it than defend it.
§ 01
Level the playing field
The same quality of tools a career coach's client gets, at a price a job-seeker can actually pay.
§ 02
Listen, then ship
Most of what's on my roadmap came from a support email. Support over strategy deck, every time.
Our impact, so far
Small team. Real numbers.
A year in, counted honestly. I publish these once a quarter and update them the day they change. No hand-polished marketing stats, no asterisks you have to squint for.
Active users10K+People who built or updated a resume in the last 30 days.
Resumes created50K+Unique resumes, exported at least once. Drafts not counted.
Interview rate73%Of Pro users who tailored 3 or more apps reported a first-round screen within 6 weeks.
User rating4.9/5Average across in-app feedback, Product Hunt, and reviews we didn't ask for.
Refreshed April 2026Source - internal - methodology available on request
Our core values
Three things we won't compromise on.
Written down once, printed above my desk, not rewritten for the about page every year. When a decision is hard, these three cast the tiebreaker.
User-first design.
Every feature begins with a real user and an actual job application. If I can't name the person it helps, it doesn't ship. My roadmap is a queue of support threads.
Built fromreal user emails
Shipped this month11 requests
Support reply time< 1 hour
Accessible excellence.
Professional tools shouldn't require a professional salary. Free stays free, Pro stays at the price of a couple of coffees, and I put nothing important behind an enterprise call.
Free planforever, not a trial
Pro$11.65 / month, quarterly
Enterprise taxnone
Continuous innovation.
The job market changes every six months. My toolkit has to change faster. Regular releases, visible changelog, and the courage to delete features that no longer earn their place.
Release cadenceevery 2 weeks
Shipped in 202541 releases
Features retired6, without regret
Looking ahead
Careerkit is just getting started.
A year of shipping, and the list of things I still want to build only keeps growing. Here's what's on the bench through 2026, roughly in the order I think I'll get to it.
My vision: make Careerkit the only tool you need for career success.
Phase01
Advanced AI matching to connect you with perfect-fit opportunities.
Stop trawling five job boards. Your resume learns what "good fit" looks like for you, and we bring the roles to the top of the stack.
Phase02
Interview prep, powered by conversational AI.
Practice the specific questions a specific hiring manager at a specific company is likely to ask, and get feedback on how you answered, out loud.
Phase03
Salary negotiation assistance & market insights.
Live comp data by role and city, plus a negotiation coach for the awkward email back after the offer lands.
Phase04
Career progression tracking & skill-gap analysis.
See the shape of your career so far, where you're headed, and the one or two skills that would move you further, fast.
Get in touch
Write to me, not a ticket queue.
Every support email in the first year was read and answered by me, the person who built the thing. That's still true. I reply fast, and I reply personally.
Email
support@
careerkit.me
LinkedIncareerkit.me
@mycareerkit
The usual details
Based inZurich, Switzerland - I work roughly on Central European hours, but the inbox never really closes.
Response timeWithin 24 to 48 hours, business days. Faster if you're stuck mid-application and tell me.
Press & partnershipsSame inbox, subject line [press] or [partnership]. Goes to the top of my pile.
Chapter two
The story keeps going. Yours starts with a resume.
Free to start, no credit card, no four-step onboarding. Open the editor, pick a template, and let the tools I wish I'd had do the first pass for you.
Careerkit, by the numbers
10K+ users
StartedJan 2025
Still small. Still reading every email myself. Still the same price it launched at.