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When Catherine Chin and Shanda Damphousse decided to dive into entrepreneurship, they had a clear mission: to help professionals tell their unique career stories with confidence. What they lacked was technical expertise and a budget for traditional development. With Bubble, a small but mighty team of three women created Odyseek, an AI-powered career app that helps users articulate their professional value story.
“We wanted to leverage no-code in combination with our business acumen,” says Catherine. “We looked into Bubble and the scale at which it can grow, and it just seemed like a no-brainer for us.”

With Bubble Developer (and Bubble Ambassador) Marina Trajkovska on board, Odyseek launched a polished product that doubled its user base only a few weeks after launching on Product Hunt. The app has quickly become an essential tool for professionals looking to enhance their career prospects. And the best part? It only took them six months — and saved them an estimated $500,000 compared to traditional development.

From concept to professional product
Catherine and Shanda met as coworkers at Yahoo. Years later, they decided to leverage their combined experience to solve a common problem: People struggle to articulate their professional value story.

“Everyone hates writing a resume,” Catherine explains. “What we’re trying to do is aid professionals in the storytelling of their unique value story.”

Without a developer on their team or the budget to hire one, they started their Bubble journey by taking a crash course to learn the platform. This gave them the foundation to create their initial prototype and start validating their idea. Eventually, after working with a couple of Bubble agencies that opened their eyes to the power of AI, they connected with Marina — a partnership that proved transformative.

“We can think of a feature and ship it the next day. There’s no long, painstaking process.”

“Within six months, we had an MVP that we felt good about,” Catherine says. If they’d gone the traditional development route, she estimates that it would have taken over a year longer and cost them at least $500,000 more.

“It’s a magical combination: Bubble, Vellum [for AI testing], Marina’s expertise, and our business strategy,” says Catherine. “We can think of a feature and ship it the next day. There’s no long, painstaking process.”

A powerful AI career companion built on Bubble
The Odyseek app leverages AI to transform how professionals present themselves, with three core features that work together to tell a compelling career story.

The first is the resume optimizer, which serves as the entry point for all users. “One of our taglines is ‘even smart people have dumb resumes,’” Catherine jokes. The optimizer uses AI to craft professional summaries, identify primary skills, and rewrite bullet points based on interactive Q&A sessions with users.

Next, the application prep feature lets users tailor their resumes to specific job descriptions. The AI analyzes job requirements, provides match scores, highlights necessary adjustments, and optimizes content for applicant tracking systems, recruiters, and hiring managers. It can even generate cover letters and outbound email templates.

Finally, the interview prep feature simulates realistic interviews based on the job description, generating questions for both phone screens and in-person interviews.

“There’s this belief that you can’t build a beautiful app on Bubble,” Catherine says. “But seeing our vision come to life has been mindblowing. Marina is able to build something beautiful and functional that truly serves our users.”

Growing a user base and measuring impact
Since launching on Product Hunt, Odyseek has more than doubled their user count and acquired their first paying customers. The team has also heard tons of positive feedback from users who have experienced tangible improvements in their job search process. They’ve had users land a job offer in as little as one week after using the resume optimizer, and users report recruiter response rates anywhere from 50 to 95%.

One user who had been applying for jobs without success reached out to thank the Odyseek team after using their tool. “He optimized his resume and reapplied for every job that he didn’t hear back from,” Catherine shares. “Now he gets a callback nearly every time he applies, and he’s averaging three interviews a week.”

What makes Odyseek particularly valuable is how it addresses the full spectrum of career development needs. The team has conducted one-on-one coaching sessions with professionals ranging from C-level executives to individual contributors, using insights from these sessions to continually refine their platform.

“We’ve seen that there’s a lot of success in this model,” Catherine says. “That’s why I’m really excited about Bubble — the platform allows us to make it accessible for more people.”

On the horizon: Supporting the full career journey
Odyseek’s success has inspired the team to continue expanding their offerings. Next on their roadmap are employee tools to help professionals document wins and achievements, automatically craft bullet points for resumes, and generate content for one-on-one meetings with managers and performance reviews.

They’re also developing features that allow users to record achievements, with AI helping to narrate these wins and translate them into effective resume bullet points. Eventually, they plan to extend this functionality by creating templates for manager meetings and performance reviews to build a comprehensive support system for career growth.

“We want to be a part of the community of innovators paving the way for others.”

For Catherine, Shanda, and Marina, being a team of three women building a tech product in a traditionally male-dominated field is a point of pride.

“I think that’s one of the key drivers for us — the inspiration of being able to show everyone that it can be done,” Catherine says. “We want to be a part of the community of innovators paving the way for others.”

To fellow entrepreneurs considering Bubble, Catherine’s advice is simple: “Don’t give up on your dream. There are always tools out there that can support you in your journey, and Bubble is a great one because of the flexibility and the speed at which you can move. Just go, don’t stop, don’t overthink it. Boldly share your vision with the world, then shape it through action.”

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