Vouch

Find who you already know at companies hiring right now

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September 8, 2026 I built a tool that finds who you already know at companies hiring right now (solo project, would love feedback)

I built Vouch because most job searching today is cold applications into an ATS black hole, and almost nobody actually checks who they already know at the companies they're applying to. A referral gets a human to actually read your application. A cold application gets filtered by software before a person ever sees it.

How it works: you export your LinkedIn connections (LinkedIn gives you a CSV of this), upload it, and Vouch matches it against companies actively hiring right now on Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. You see exactly who you know at each company and how strong the connection is, then it drafts the outreach message for you.

A few things from building it solo:

Pricing was the hardest decision. I went with $39 one time instead of a subscription, since the whole point is you stop needing it once you're hired, a recurring charge felt wrong for that.

The messy technical part was matching company names. LinkedIn's export has "Google", "Google LLC", "Google Inc." all as different strings for connections at the same company, so a decent chunk of the work was building matching that actually holds up against real, inconsistent data.

I'd genuinely love a few of you to try it and tell me honestly if it's useful, not just polite feedback. Here's a code for half off if you want to: FIRST10.

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4 Comments

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    The matching solves discovery, but the real value is what happens next. Have users who found a relevant connection actually gotten more replies or interviews than they were getting from cold applications?
    1. 1
      What I do know is the general pattern that's well established in hiring: a referral gets a human to actually look at your application, a cold application often gets filtered before anyone sees it. Whether that translates into more replies for people using this specific tool is something I want to actually measure, not assume.
      1. 1

        That’s the right distinction — the tool’s value really depends on what happens after the match. If you’re open to it, what’s the best email to reach you on?

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          reach out to me on ratishjain6@gmail.com

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I built Vouch because most job searching today is cold applications into an ATS black hole, and almost nobody actually checks who they already know at the companies they're applying to.