David Alade on Sorce: AI job-application app that has facilitated 25,000+ interviews via browser agents

until later, we will

uh go head over to source and we're going to talk to David who's building Tinder for jobs. David, good to meet you. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for taking the time. Introduce yourself. Introduce the company.

Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. My name is David. I am one of the founders of Source. Source is like Tinder but for jobs. So, you just upload your resume, swipe right, and AI will apply on the company's website for you.

Okay. How is AI actually helping there? Because I'm still doing the swiping myself. If I'm looking for a job, the AI is just doing the application. Is that correct?

Yeah. Yeah. So, you basically fill out one job application when you first set up the app and then when you swipe, then we have browser agents that will actually fill out the applications.

So, it just saves the filling out form time. How's the traction?

What is Yeah. So, talk about can you talk about the state of the hiring market because I feel like the

the number one complaint that uh candidates and people that are applying for jobs have is that like seemingly nobody reads nobody actually looks at job applications and a lot of roles don't actually end up getting hired uh based on traditional job boards. Um but yeah, what what what can you say about kind of what you're seeing in the market? Yeah, I guess it very much depends on the company and the role in the sector, but in general, people definitely still get interviews from just inbound applications. A lot of it is automated and recruiters do kind of like sift through the applicants applications, but I think the number one meta point is that it's definitely a field that's like ripe for disruption. Like

you are applying with many many other people and there's typically other ways to get in. A lot of people email them themselves into a job or a lot of people um refer their way into a job, but

the inbound is definitely still something that companies use because when you're hiring people at scale, there's just no other way to do it. Like if you're a company that's hiring like 200, 300 people a month, it's impossible to do it through inbound.

Yeah. So where where where what kind of like jobs and and markets have you been focused on? Because maybe it's not like you know uh other companies in a YC batch. Maybe that's uh maybe that's incorrect, but where where's the focus been?

Yeah. Yeah. I guess a misconception about source is that we're not very directly comp working with these companies. We're just a traditional job board like an Indeed or a LinkedIn. So we directly scrape the ATS's. So right now there's like uh like a million and a half jobs on the app and those are scraped from ATS's like Workday or Greenhouse or Ashb. So if your company uses that system as an ATS then we've probably scraped your job and you're on source.

Are they okay with that? Is that fine? just just scrape these because I know LinkedIn used to be amazing for scraping and then

I'm assuming yes because they're like you're going to get more jobs as long as the the ATS's themselves aren't like advertising or marketing like they're just sass right so there there's kind of a contract in this industry to the ATS's are there to be scraped like Indeed 80% of the jobs on Indeed are scraped most of the jobs on LinkedIn are scraped job boards themselves obviously don't want to be scraped like we wouldn't want to get scraped but the ATS themselves obviously they are just like sending out emails to candidates and managing that whole pipeline. So,

got it.

Yeah, that that's completely fine. And as for how the companies are reacting to it to answer someone's question, um

like we've helped get over 25,000 interviews in the past year and those range from [laughter] those range from Thank you.

That's fantastic. from like

I guess there's a very wide range of companies like we've helped somebody get a software engineering role at Anderil like a couple months ago but then very often you'll see someone get like a like a line cook job but it's really just

the universal fact is that filling out the form is very very pointless.

How do you do top of funnel? Like how do you get people to be aware of uh your app actually install it download it? How are you driving attention on that side?

Yeah, we've gotten very good at going viral and getting views.

Oh,

I think over the past year we've done over 100 million views on social media, mostly on Tik Tok and Instagram. And that again is mostly just like me and my co-founder making

videos on Tik Tok and Instagram. We have like I think like 72K on Instagram right now. And that's just from

us pulling out the camera and telling people about what we're doing and people like it. So,

makes sense.

That's very cool. How How are you going to make money? Are you making money already? So, we actually launched this while we were in school. Like I I just graduated in May, but we launched this last like at the beginning of the fall semester. And we used to make money from charging people for or by charging people for more swipes. We recently have gone like very very free. Like you really don't need to pay to apply to a lot of jobs anymore. But yeah, we used to make money from that. Since we've took taken that down, we don't really make money from that anymore. And in the future, obviously, we plan to take the traditional job board route and work directly with employers, just faster matches, get more applicants, etc. But right now, we're very much just like product focused and

we're kind of wully ignoring revenue. Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh how's how's the how's the round going?

Round is basically done. I think my co-founder is

talking to investors, but it's really just for fun. Like we're we're not planning on raising any more [laughter] money. Um,

tell them to get back in the in the grind. You don't need to be talking to investors if you close the R.

Uh,

small recommend small recommend small I I I don't like Tinder 4X.

Oh, sure.

Uh, I'm sure that that actually resonates really well with consumers.

But, uh, but, uh, the the the the product experience makes it makes a ton of sense. Um,

people think swiping. They know swiping.

Yeah, they know. They're not getting away for that. Makes sense.

But, uh, but anyways, very very very cool. Well, congrats on on all the traction and uh uh and hopefully we find some people on source at that point.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thanks so much. We'll talk to you soon. Have a good rest of your day.

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