Claude helped ship an Android job-search app, but Google Play needed 12 real testers
Jash-6898 · reddit · 2026-07-21
A developer turned the AI job-search product TryApplyNow from a web app into an Android app with help from Claude, but the hardest part turned out to be Google Play’s closed-testing requirements.
What the product does
- Upload a resume
- Find matching jobs
- Explain why a job matches or not
- Tailor a resume for a role
- Find employees for outreach
- Track applications
What made mobile hard
- Resume uploads behaved differently across phones
- Authentication redirects broke in some flows
- Detailed job cards had to be redesigned for small screens
- The app had to pass Google Play’s testing rules
- He needed 12 testers who would install it, keep it installed, and stay opted in for 14 days
The website is already free to try, Android is now in closed testing, and iOS is next.
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