About
Who builds this, why it exists, and the one rule it will not break.
Why this exists
Applying for jobs online is mostly retyping. The same name, the same phone number, the same three paragraphs about why you want to work there — into a different portal each time, forty times over, for a reply rate that would depress anyone. The work is real but none of it is your work. Shortlist exists to do that part.
The rule it won't break
There are tools that fire hundreds of applications with nobody reading them. That is not this.Nothing sends without your approval — you see the completed form, in your words, before it goes anywhere. It is slower than spraying, and it is the whole point: an application sent in your name should be one you would have been willing to write.
The same rule decides the smaller things. If a form asks something Pip cannot answer honestly from your profile, it stops and asks you rather than guessing. If an application might already have been sent, it says so rather than quietly sending a second one.
Who builds it
One person, in India. That is worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a "we": there is no support floor, no sales team, and when you email you get the person who wrote the code. It is also why prices are in rupees with a weekly plan — a job hunt is not a place for an annual commitment priced in dollars.
Where the jobs come from
Shortlist reads jobs from employers' own career systems — Greenhouse, Ashby, Workable, Rippling — every six hours, and applies through those same systems. Not reposts, not a feed bought from somebody else. You can see the whole thing without an account:browse the live board.
What it is not
- Not a browser extension. It runs in the cloud, not in your tab.
- Not a LinkedIn bot. It applies on employers' own sites, and does not touch your LinkedIn account.
- Not a resume mill. Your resume is not training data and is not sold.
- Not a promise of a job. It gets your application in front of the employer, properly filled in. The rest is you.
Say hello
Feedback, a bug, a job board it should be reading, or an argument about any of the above:get in touch. It genuinely reaches a person.