This was 2024, when the market was rough.
I was at NIQ stable, one of the larger names in consumer intelligence and I was not looking. But I had friends with genuinely solid experience who had been applying for months and getting nowhere. Every time we met I heard the same two sentences.
The market is terrible. I'm applying everywhere and getting nothing.
So I tried it myself, mostly out of curiosity. I applied to a few roles. A couple of days passed. Nothing.
I asked somebody who reads the applications
A friend of mine works as a recruiter, so I called her. She told me they had taken more than seven hundred applications in under three days for one senior position.
Then she said the part that changed how I thought about all of it: around eighty per cent of them were not relevant. A great many were from outside the EU for a role with no visa sponsorship.
So the problem was not a shortage of good candidates. Good candidates were being buried by the volume around them.
That stuck with me. If I am qualified for a role and genuinely want to work at that company, why should I lose it because several hundred unrelated applications happened to arrive before mine?
So I built something for myself
The idea was not clever. Instead of going out to job boards every evening, I would tell something once what I wanted and which companies I cared about, and let it watch their career pages and tell me the moment something matched. Before the flood, rather than after it.
First version took a couple of nights.
Then I used it on myself. I set it to watch NVIDIA and Tesla, among a few others not because I expected anything, I still had a job I liked, but because I wanted to know whether the theory held.
It held. I heard back from both within twenty-four hours of applying, and interviewed at both. They went well.
I am not going to pretend that was the tool alone, and I am not going to pretend it was luck either. But being among the first qualified people a recruiter sees rather than the five hundredth changes what happens next. It is the difference between a CV that gets read and a CV that arrives underneath somebody else's.
I told my recruiter friend what I had done. She used it, and started hearing back too. That is the point at which I decided to put it somewhere other people could reach.
What it is now
It has grown. It watches 382 European companies and currently holds 20,151 open roles and not only engineering: sales, product, marketing, HR, legal, finance, operations, internships and working-student positions, with filters for the things that actually decide whether a role is open to you, like remote work and visa sponsorship.
I still think of it the same way I did the first night.
Tinder for the next step in your career. You say what you are interested in. It does the watching. When something matches, you hear about it early enough for that to matter.
I did not build it because the world needed another job board. I built it because I watched too many good people get lost in the noise, and I got lucky enough to prove to myself that it did not have to go that way.
Excellent people deserve the opportunity. Excellent companies deserve excellent people. Right now far too much of what sits between the two is noise.
If you are looking for your next role, it is here.
