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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 06/08/2025

Please get that better job offer in writing BEFORE you quit. We are not in the same job market we were 3 years ago.

Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/08/2025

The long resume works partly bc it’s justified, this person has a lot of experience, but also because it stands out in a sea of identical looking 1-page resumes.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/08/2025

We recently had our best performing resume of all time on ApplyAll. 2-3 interview requests PER DAY at peak. 20% response rate (unheard of in this market). Software Engineer. Their resume is 3 pages long.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/08/2025

What's a skill that was useful 1000 years ago, is still useful today, but will become irrelevant within the next 1000 years?

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 26/03/2025

The lifecycle of startup marketing: 1. You talk about your idea. 2. You talk about your product. 3. Your customers talk about your product. 4. You talk about your customers.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 26/03/2025

"Best $250 I have spent in my life." $168k/yr salary -> $248k/yr salary 2 interviews, 1 offer

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Emma Fletcher @emmafletcher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Evergreen Support 🤝 ApplyAll 🥰

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 18/03/2025

If you're a SaaS founder with too many customer support tickets, I can highly recommend working with @emmafletcher.bsky.social. I would not want to run ApplyAll without her help.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/03/2025

Thanks Emir, that’s the idea

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/03/2025

We had 200 new customers sign up last month, which was great! But we also had to refund a lot of customers who are a bad fit for our service, which is not great! So I made a quick video listing every reason I can think of why you SHOULD NOT sign up to save you the trouble: youtu.be/36VwtCQTHcI

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Why you shouldn't use ApplyAll

YouTube video by Anthony Castrio

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/03/2025

The only skill you need is organizing people.

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Emma Fletcher @emmafletcher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Staring the great Evergreen tour of 2025 ✈️ Sac -> Charlotte for Evergreen Support retreat Charlotte -> NYC to see @castrio.me and other friends Day trip from NYC -> Philly to see @ellierose.me It's gonna be a fun 10 days!

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 05/03/2025

Ever try to write out your whole life so far? The details fade so quickly. What used to be a whole chapter is eventually just a sentence, then a word, then it's gone.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 05/03/2025

If you assume your enemies are dumb they will surprise you with their cunning. If you assume your enemies are smart they will surprise you with their mistakes.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 04/03/2025

Depends on the exact states and how much time you spend in each. Don’t do crimes folks.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/03/2025

You should pay all the taxes you owe wherever you owe them.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/03/2025

Many states have low thresholds for claiming residency. Only your VPN has to know where you really live.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 03/03/2025

The only reason I become a founder is so that I can post all day and call it marketing instead of procrastination.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 26/02/2025

Study how they started, not what they do now.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 22/02/2025

Doing something the first time is tough because it’s a break with whatever your identity was up to that point.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 21/02/2025

How ApplyAll works: 1. Submit your resume + preferences (location, role, salary requirement). 2. We find 100+ relevant job openings and apply to them for you—fast. 3. We filter spam, handle verification codes, and organize everything in one dashboard. youtu.be/AtaI5REcf-4?...

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Automate your job search with ApplyAll

YouTube video by Anthony Castrio

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 13/02/2025

Double the timeline and it sounds about right.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 13/02/2025

Margins are slim for a tech company, but we're working on that. We had our first profitable month last month at ~20% margin. Ticket price:

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 13/02/2025

It's a shame we've got 27,000 email subscribers and we're not sending out a weekly or even monthly updates.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 13/02/2025

Alright, I'm giving this a shot. Maybe I should have stuck with a default image though.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 13/02/2025

We're back up and to the right after the holidays 📈

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Consciousness hack: 1. Record a video of yourself explaining how something works to send to a friend or coworker. 2. You will discover all the gaps in your thinking. 3. Delete the video. Fix your mistakes. Start again.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

When did you start hiring? Any tips on finding & keeping great people?

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Denmark would have a better shot at buying Maine.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Nice! How are people finding out about it?

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

I schedule meetings in the morning bc an alarm is only effective when it can get mad at me.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

How many employees do you have?

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Hey bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

We're also blocked by tech-debt. Just now getting to the point of having a manageable code-base that we could actually onboarding more engineers onto & collaborate. bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

This could unlock enough capital to make our first engineering hires and start moving faster. But we're not just blocked by capital. bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

That's made it easier to grow! Because no one else does what we do as well as we do it. But now we've got a database full of 1000's of job-seekers & a track record of placing them at great companies. We should start working with companies that want to hire from our client list

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

We've flipped that on it's head by working directly for job-seekers & remaining invisible to the companies. This has let us build up the supply side of the marketplace & aligned our incentives with an under-represented part of the market.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Why do we charge customers instead of companies? This is a question we get a lot and it's also our unique wedge into the market. Everyone goes after companies first bc they get excited by big commission cheques recruiters get. bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Over time, I think we can automate most of this? And the human-team will help us cover 100% of the long-tail of edge cases + give us a gold standard to build against. bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

We win a lot of competitor's customers & have a lot of repeat customers because our quality control is very high. The goal is zero mistakes.

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

The team has been really helpful for quality control as well. Making a mistake on an application is very rare. The team catches user errors e.g. - broken email in resume - missing information - bad job fit - user not getting enough job matches

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Why do we spend so much on our remote team? - All job applications are currently filled out by humans + tools. - Building out the auto-applier got stalled first by verification code emails (solved) then by no-code tools (migration in progress). bsky.app/profile/cast...

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

Last bullet point might conflict with goal of reducing refunds, because we are much better typically at job-search strategizing than our customers are. That's one of our big value-adds right now but how can we scale "@talmahaj.bsky.social reviews every customer"?

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Anthony Castrio @castrio.me · 12/02/2025

I think the long-term solutions here are: - expand the kinds of jobs we support. - some kind of LLM-based customer-review bot that can auto-reject & refund bad fits. - give users more power to create their own job search.

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