AI Resume Screener to $1K MRR

Pay-per-batch was the unlock. Revenue crossed the equivalent of $340 MRR this month and support load actually went down.

Churn lesson learned: people subscribe during a hiring sprint, then cancel. Testing a pay-per-batch model instead of monthly.

Launched the paid tier at $19/mo. First three customers within 48 hours 🎉 Turns out hiring managers will pay to not read 200 resumes.

Added bulk upload and CSV export after five different users asked for it. Free-to-paid conversion is clearly the next mountain.

Shipped the MVP in a weekend with Next.js + GPT-4o-mini. Paste a job description, upload resumes, get ranked scores with reasoning. Posted on X and got 40 signups overnight.