Why I Built Resume Tailor
Job hunting is stressful enough without worrying about your personal data being harvested, stored, and sold.
We've all been there: you find a job posting that looks perfect, but your generic resume doesn't quite hit the mark. The job asks for "cross-functional collaboration" but your resume says "worked with teams." Same thing, different keywords—and those keywords matter when an ATS is doing the first pass.
The Problem with Existing Tools
Most resume tools today fall into two camps:
- Privacy nightmares — They store your resume, your job history, your contact info, forever. Who knows where that data ends up?
- Overengineered complexity — They try to do everything: job boards, networking, coaching, premium subscriptions, upsells at every click.
I wanted something different. Something dead simple.
Dead Simple Tools Philosophy
Do one thing well. Resume Tailor has one job: take your resume and a job description, and help you tailor your resume to match. That's it.
Zero storage, zero tracking. We don't store your resume. We don't store the job descriptions. We don't even store your IP address (we hash it for rate limiting, then throw it away). When you close the browser, your session is gone.
Transparent by design. Our core logic is open source on GitHub. You can see exactly what we do with your data: nothing, except process it and give it back to you.
How It Works
- Upload your resume (PDF)
- Paste the job description
- Our AI analyzes both and suggests improvements
- Download your tailored resume
- That's it. No account. No tracking. No upsells.
Free users get 2-4 tailoring sessions per day (depending on the free API availability). Need more? A one-time $3 payment gets you 30 credits. No subscriptions, no recurring charges.
What's Next?
I'm building more dead simple tools. Tools that respect your privacy, do one thing well, and don't try to lock you into an ecosystem.
If you have ideas for what I should build next, I'd love to hear from you.
Resume Tailor is part of Dead Simple Tools—a collection of privacy-first, no-nonsense utilities for the modern web.