First Job Rejection Tracker

A crowdsourced platform where college students and recent grads log job rejections, track response rates by company, and connect with others rejected from the same places — like Levels.fyi but for entry-level job hunting.

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01 THE IDEA

The idea is to build a data-driven community tool that brings transparency to the entry-level job market. Users log every application they submit, track which companies respond (and how), and see aggregate data on response and rejection rates across employers. It fills the same role Levels.fyi plays for comp transparency, but focuses on the first-job experience — a life stage with massive anxiety and almost no shared data.

The go-to-market is scrappy by design: start with a Notion template or Airtable sheet, pick one target employer (e.g. Goldman Sachs or P&G), crowdsource data via Discord or a School/Circle community, and drive awareness through short-form video. Over time the network effect compounds as more data makes the tool more valuable, and monetization can layer in via job board partnerships, premium analytics, or recruiter leads.

02 THE NUMBERS

EXPECTED ARR

$60K – $800K

INITIAL INVESTMENT

$200 + 40h

MONTHLY BURN

$100 + 30h

AUTOMATION

5/10

COMPETITORS

13 · GROWING →

SKILLS

Community building, Data curation, Short-form content creation, Basic no-code tooling

03 THE VERDICT

Structural tailwinds (opaque hiring, ATS black holes, Gen Z demand for peer data) meet a clearly underserved niche. The Levels.fyi analogy is apt — that site became a $500M+ acquisition off the same transparency model. Startup cost is near zero, distribution is organic via college communities, and the network-effect moat grows with every data point added. Greg himself named this his favorite idea in the video.

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04 THE FIELD

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