Hey, simply wished to share that my free resume builder app reached 2000 MAU in the present day and share somewhat bit about my expertise for anybody on the market constructing purposes.

This challenge began about 2 years in the past when i wished to create one of the best PDF Editor app on the market. I spent about 1 yr constructing an in browser PDF rendering engine that will generate a pixel excellent PDF with excessive constancy as what you see within the browser. I attempted to package deal that app as a PDF Edtior however acquired little traction.

Quick ahead to final yr and i made a decision that i might pivot to create one of the best free resume builder on the market as I hated how individuals are getting charged cash to easily make a resume profiting off of individuals's fundamental wants. I spent a yr constructing this resume builder and switcing over my PDF Editor app to work for resumes. On December 2025 I deployed JobScoutly to the online and noticed some very small traction about just a few customers per week.

I made a decision to start out spending cash on Google adverts..I most likely spent about $2,000 on adverts to see if my app would achieve traction. What i spotted was that individuals spend about 2 weeks at most on a resume builder software and don’t come again to edit it so spending adverts to realize traction would solely present a brief increase in visitors, no actual very long time customers as individuals aren't updating their resume usually.

Then i made a decision to start out posting on reddit, and optimizing my advertising and marketing website to rank higher for Google and ChatGPT. That is the place i began to see a distinction. I began getting pure visitors from google, ChatGPT and Bing. Ever since then my DAU has been slowly going up and I reached 2000 MAU in the present day. The visitors exhibits an upward pattern and it's thrilling offering a free useful gizmo for individuals.

TLDR:

1. No traction at begin
2. Ran $2000 Google Advertisements – acquired traction however didnt perceive my market and the quick turnover in order quickly as i turned off the adverts the visitors went again down
3. Optimized my advertising and marketing website, posted on reddit and began seeing an enormous enhance in constant visitors from Google, ChatGPT and Bing.
4. Reached 2000 MAU with natural visitors
5. To be Continued in a month lets see if it retains going up or my app fizzles out