I know I'm not the only one dying to get into these AI companies. It feels like one of the best things you can do for your career, but the job market is competitive. Like legit insane. A role drops on Monday, and by Friday it’s already gone. I was refreshing the careers pages on 20+ career pages manually, so I decided to automate it.
Small catch: I’m a PM, not a dev. I hadn’t written code in 5+ years. But with Cursor and a lot of late nights, I built a tool that tracks open roles across AI companies I care about — and alerts me as soon as something new drops.
I used Supabase, built a scraper from scratch (lol probs the wrong move), integrated Stripe, set up API calls, hosted the backend on a VPS… the whole thing. It works now, and people are signing up.
But it didn’t take a weekend. It took like ~3 months of nights and weekends. Vibe coding a paid product in 5 days - idk about you but that just doesn't make sense. I have a job and a life lol. Here's a real timeline:
Weeks 1–3: Setup chaos. Git? npm install? Deploying? I almost quit 10 times.
Weeks 4–6: Tool overload. Everything felt like it mattered. Everything broke.
Weeks 6–10: Finally started shipping real features. Shared it with a few people.
Week 10+: Fixing dumb bugs. Adding polish. Still tweaking.
The only reason I didn’t give up is because I just kept asking AI stuff like “What is npm?” or “Can I push this off for later?” It was like a judgment-free co-pilot.
Anyway, if you’re job hunting in AI and want to try the tool linked in first comment (not trying to self-promo too hard). I’ll also give a free pro version to 1–2 folks who leave helpful feedback — just reply and I’ll DM you the link.
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