Thread by @jakejackson__

My brother lost his job recently and asked me to help write a cover letter, so I spend 3 hours knocking it out for him. I hate busy work, so I did what any good programmer does: spend 40+ hours automating it 😅 @GravityPDF meets #openai #GPT3 a 🧵 pdfcoverletters.com [1/12]

The week before Christmas, the business that employed my brother for ~10 years shut down permanently (mismanagement after an acquisition). Instead of getting ready to enjoy the holidays, he had to figure out what the heck he was going to do now... [2/12]

He's been interested in a career in the mining sector for awhile now, and losing his job is probably the push he needed. Still, the timing sucked! About me and my brother: we joke that he's the brawn and I'm the brain. Which is why he came to me for help. [3/12]

I was meant to be finalizing my work so I could enjoy R&R over the holidays, but dropped tools to give him a hand. Like him, I haven't had to go job hunting in 10 years. But after a few hours of writing I quickly remembered why I disliked the application process so much 😮‍💨 [4/12]

This was when #ChatGPT was really blowing up Twitter (and still is). Then my friend @spivurno over at @GravityWiz released a free Gravity Forms GPT-3 add-on, and THAT really got my gears turning – I run a document automation business (@GravityPDF) built on @gravityforms. [5/12]

After the Christmas festivities I started experimenting with #ChatGPT and #DallE2. Like everyone else, I was really impressed with what it can do. Here's some of the images I had DALL-E 2 generate. [6/12]

After a lot of experimentation, I decided @OpenAI GPT-3 API was up to the task I had in mind. Much to my wife's chagrin, during my break I started building a Cover Letter generator using the tools and software I know and love (@WordPress, @gravityforms, and @GravityPDF). [7/12]

I know, I know... You need to get that work-life balance and all. But I had an itch that needed scratching (and I didn't want to write any more cover letters for my brother)! [8/12]

A couple weeks later and PdfCoverLetters.com was born: a #GPT3 powered .docx and .pdf Cover Letter generator. I learned A LOT in this project. Full Site Editing in @WordPress 6.1, @gravityforms 2.7-RC2 themes, and @OpenAI GPT-3. [9/12]

There's other AI Cover Letter tools in the wild. For PDFCoverLetters.com I wanted to create something that's personalized, quick, and privacy aware. It is a hard balance to strike, but I feel like I got the mix right where the end result is still relevant and useful. [10/12]

PDFCoverLetters.com is now live, and you can turbocharge your next job search 🥳 Create a free cover letter daily, and then pay only $1.99USD per use. There's no subscription, lock-in, or signup involved. It's just easy and I hope you find the tool helpful. [11/12]

P.s My team at @GravityPDF love helping customers automate personalized documents. If you've got an idea that combines AI and PDFs, get in touch and we can discuss a custom build gravitypdf.com/bespoke/ [12/12]

(had to repost since I don't actually understand how threads work on Twitter 🤦)