Building an AI startup to 1.5 Million Users with Aidan Cramer
Most people talking about AI startups are commentators. Aidan Cramer is actually building one.
AI Apply has grown to 1.5 million users and processes over a million job applications per month, with a team of just 10 people and a single $500K raise. No Series A. No massive team. Just relentless execution and constant reinvention as AI models evolve underneath them.
In this fireside chat, Aidan gets real about what building a high-growth AI product actually looks like when you're in the thick of it:
For PMs and builders: How to make product decisions when every OpenAI release forces you to rethink your architecture, why traditional roadmaps break down in AI, and what "product-engineer" hybrids actually look like in practice
For anyone considering a career move into AI: What the job market really looks like from the inside (spoiler: 30% of job listings are fake), what skills actually matter, and how to think about the entrepreneurship vs. employment question
This isn't a polished founder story. It's an honest look at the messy, chaotic, surprisingly effective reality of building an AI company right now.
Aidan Cramer is the co-founder and CEO of AI Apply, which helps job seekers with AI-powered resume customisation, interview prep, and automated applications. Before AI Apply, Aidan built products in the AI space and connected with his co-founder on Twitter. Two and a half years later, they've scaled to 1.5M+ users with a lean, engineering-heavy team.
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