Anthony Castrio

6 Aug 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.

3 Aug 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.

3 Aug 2025

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

26 Mar 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.

@emmafletcher.bsky.social

26 Mar 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

18 Mar 2025

Evergreen Support 🤝 ApplyAll 🥰

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

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.

18 Mar 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.

youtu.beWhy you shouldn't use ApplyAllYouTube video by Anthony Castrio

12 Mar 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

@emmafletcher.bsky.social

12 Mar 2025

The only skill you need is organizing people.

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Emma Fletcher

8 Mar 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!

5 Mar 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.

5 Mar 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.

3 Mar 2025

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

26 Feb 2025

Study how they started, not what they do now.

22 Feb 2025

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

youtube.comAutomate your job search with ApplyAllYouTube video by Anthony Castrio

21 Feb 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?...

13 Feb 2025

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

13 Feb 2025

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

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.

Current challenges & opportunities at work: - We bounced back tremendously from the holiday hiring slump with our biggest month every in January. - Bubble has become an albatross around our necks, slowing down product development & creating busy-work.

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...

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

There are more things I want to build than time to build them. - CMS with automated application-status tracking. - Auto-applies. - Finish migration away from Bubble. - Integrated email inbox.

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...

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

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...

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.

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

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...

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

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

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...

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

- Our biggest bottleneck is the time it takes to onboard candidates. - Our biggest cost-center is our remote team who fill out applications & spot-check errors. - Our biggest revenue opportunity is to start serving the other side of the market & collect hiring commissions.

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.

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"?

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

Why so involved? - We have a money-back guarantee if we don't get you at least one relevant interview. - We only currently support tech-jobs but people ignore our website copy & sign up anyway. - There is an art and a science to making a job search that's deeper than you expect.

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.

There are more things I want to build than time to build them. - CMS with automated application-status tracking. - Auto-applies. - Finish migration away from Bubble. - Integrated email inbox.

How our onboarding works: - User signs up. - @talmahaj.bsky.social reviews their info & does one of 3 things. 1. Refunds them if they are a bad match. 2. Sends them feedback/refers to resume review workshop if their resume sucks. 3. Builds their custom job search bsky.app/profile/cast...

Anthony Castrio@castrio.me

I am a creature of momentum. Notice a huge difference in how my brain works the rest of the day if I spend my first 30 minutes awake in production mode vs consumption mode.

30 Jan 2025

I started some seedlings in my apartment this week and now I'm garden brained.

We have two events scheduled to build and launch the garden. We have a horticulturalist on board to lead a weekly co-gardening. We've started a composting program in the attached co-working space.

11 Feb 2025

> Got a bunch of free plants. > Started a compost bin on the roof. > Set up a growing rack indoors to get seedlings going. > Group-chat has grown to 22 volunteers.

11 Feb 2025

Can't wait to be rich so I can spend it all on cool projects for my community to enjoy.

5 Feb 2025

It’s so hard not to want to do everything all at once all of the time.

5 Feb 2025

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

4 Feb 2025

No-code was just a stepping stone in productivity. Now it’s a huge disadvantage to use any tool that’s not LLM compatible.

30 Jan 2025

I started some seedlings in my apartment this week and now I'm garden brained.

castrio.notion.siteFractal Rooftop Garden | NotionHop in kid, we're going solar-punk ☀️

31 Jan 2025

The situation has escalated. Yesterday morning it was a small tray of seedlings. Now we are developing a rooftop community garden. There are already over a dozen people involved helping to gather supplies, plan the layout, and start seedlings.

29 Jan 2025

What’s a true fact that sounds like a lie until you see the actual data?

29 Jan 2025

If you try to scan or print a picture of a dollar bill, the print will fail. The tech is powered by a pattern of yellow dots printed on currency which printers detect and block. So if a person got those marks tattooed across their face, could you still print their driver's license?

27 Jan 2025

Old fashioned: whiskey, bitters, sugar, garnished with an orange peel. Older fashioned: the same but with strict gender roles.

21 Jan 2025

Once you get used to how things are, it's harder to see how they can be improved.

21 Jan 2025

That's why I like to refactor while I learn a new codebase. It helps me get oriented and I still have the benefit of fresh eyes.