November 3, 2023 – 3:47 AM
I’m staring at my laptop screen, eyes burning from the blue light, surrounded by empty coffee mugs and the remnants of what was supposed to be a “quick job application session.” Seven hours ago, I’d optimistically opened LinkedIn with the energy of someone who thought applying for jobs would be straightforward.
Seven bloody hours. 😭
I’d left Zapier just over a week earlier—October 26th, to be precise and reality was setting in. My CV looked decent enough on paper; ten years of operations experience across e-commerce, banking, fintech. I should be able to land something, right? RIGHT??? But here I was, drowning in a sea of job descriptions that all seemed to want slightly different versions of the same skills, each requiring a tailored cover letter and a perfectly optimised CV.
The irony wasn’t lost on me. I’d spent years building systems to make other people’s work more efficient, and here I was stuck in the most inefficient process known to working professionals: job hunting.
By 4 AM, I’d applied to exactly three positions. Three. And I felt like I’d run a marathon whilst doing advanced algebra. This wasn’t just tedious—it was soul-crushing in a way that made Sunday evening anxiety look like child’s play.
Fast forward to June 2024 – Brentford, London
Divine and I are in London. We’re both in that peculiar limbo of uncertainty—I’m preparing to start a contract with Duel Tech in July, and he’s just left Motorway as the company was downsizing. We are both technical people who’d built systems to make other people’s work easier, now struggling with the most inefficient process known to working professionals.
We’re both using JobScan to optimise our CVs and track applications. It works, sort of, but Christ—£90 for three months, £50 per month ongoing. When you’re job hunting, every expense feels magnified. It’s a period of uncertainty where you’re questioning every subscription, every coffee purchase, and here’s this tool that you need but feels like paying rent on anxiety.
“This is mental,” I tell Divine. “We’re paying premium prices to make job hunting slightly less miserable. And it’s still bloody miserable.”
That’s when Divine gets that look—you know the one. The same look engineers get when they spot an inefficient process that’s begging to be solved. “What if we built something better? Something that doesn’t just optimise your CV but actually makes the whole process feel… I don’t know, less like you’re about to be eaten alive?”
We started throwing around ideas. Our first concept? “Cookie and a Pint.” The idea was to create a tool that brings relaxation to job hunting—taking away that “Welcome to the Jungle 👀” feeling and replacing it with something more like settling in with comfort food and good company.
July – August 2024: Reality Check
I started my contract with Duel Tech on July 10th, finished by the end of August, and found myself back in that familiar place of uncertainty. Divine was in the same boat after leaving Motorway. Two experienced professionals, both unsure of what comes next, both frustrated by expensive tools that made job hunting marginally less awful.
That’s when we decided: if we’re going to solve this problem for ourselves, why not solve it for everyone else too?
But “Cookie and a Pint”? The more we thought about it, the more we realised it was too English-coded. Hard to sell that concept in other regions where pints aren’t part of the cultural vocabulary.
We needed something universal. Something that captured the feeling we were after but translated across cultures.
Then it hit us: Sunday Morning.
The most hopeful time of the week. Quiet, slow, and easy—like that Commodores song. It’s when you have space to breathe, to think clearly, to approach your week (and your career) with intention rather than panic. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world; Sunday morning has that same energy of possibility and calm.
October 2024 – Building Sunday Morning
We started building in October with a simple premise: what if we could bring that Sunday morning energy to career development? Not just the tools, but the entire experience. Make it calmer, more thoughtful, less overwhelming, and significantly more affordable than the £50/month we were spending on solutions that barely solved the problem.
We have a free resume scoring tool. we built this partly because we wanted to test whether AI could actually provide useful career guidance without charging people an arm and a leg. You can try it at discoversm.com/score-my-resume if you’re curious. But we didn’t stop there—we built a complete platform at discoversm.com/dashboard with everything we wished we’d had during those late-night application sessions.
Here’s the beautiful part: while we were still building the bloody thing, I was using our half-finished tools to apply for roles. Our resume optimisation helped me craft applications that actually got responses. Our job matching analysis helped me target the right positions. I landed a role at Automattic using the very platform we were creating.
Nothing validates a product quite like using it to solve your own problem successfully.
Why This Matters
Look, we’re not the only ones trying to fix job hunting. There’s healthy competition in this space, and frankly, I welcome it. The traditional process is so broken that we need multiple approaches to crack this nut.
But here’s what we’re doing differently: we’re not just building another resume builder or job board. We’re trying to fundamentally change how job hunting feels. Instead of Sunday evening dread about Monday’s applications, we want to create Sunday morning clarity about your career path.
Every feature we build—from AI-powered cover letter generator to personalised career guidance—is designed around this central question: “Does this make the job hunt feel more like a calm Sunday morning, or does it add to the Monday morning chaos?”
Sunday Morning isn’t just our product name; it’s our philosophy. Job hunting doesn’t have to feel like drowning in quicksand whilst juggling flaming torches. It can feel thoughtful, manageable, and dare I say it—even a bit hopeful.
Because if we can bring the calm of Sunday morning to something as universally stressful as finding your next job, imagine what else becomes possible when we stop accepting that essential life processes have to be miserable.
Want to give Sunday Morning a try? Check us out at:
and see if we can bring some of that calm to your career journey.
Got feedback or your own job hunting war stories? I’d love to hear from you. Find us on:
Instagram: @sundaymorninghq
TikTok: @sundaymorninghq
Twitter: @discoversm_ai
Until next time, keep it Sunday Morning. 👋🏽
Next time you’re job hunting, remember: it’s Sunday morning somewhere. Take your time, breathe deeply, and let the tools work for you instead of against you.
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