Should you build your own Teal Plus?
Track applications, maintain an evidence bank, and tailor truthful resume variants
The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Teal Plus, track applications, maintain an evidence bank, and tailor truthful resume variants. The hard boundary is job-board capture, guidance, templates, keyword tooling, and hosted convenience, plus data, distribution, and coaching.
ENOriginal research content in English. Original prompt preserved in English.
Build a personal replacement for Teal Plus in an empty repository.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and an optional OpenAI API; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: track job applications, maintain an evidence bank, tailor truthful resume variants against a supplied role, and keep every claim traceable to the user's own evidence.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create a structured evidence bank for roles, projects, skills, dates, metrics, and source notes.
Import a job description and highlight requirements without inventing missing experience.
Generate a tailored resume variant only from approved evidence and show the source for each bullet.
Add application stages, contacts, tasks, dates, notes, documents, and a follow-up view.
Provide interview-question practice with answer notes and a self-review rubric, not deceptive live assistance.
Export resume data as JSON and PDF plus the application tracker as CSV.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out automatic mass application.
Deliberately leave out fabricated qualifications or deceptive interview assistance.
Deliberately leave out proprietary recruiter databases and guaranteed job outcomes.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running. · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR
What would building your own look like?
Track job applications, maintain an evidence bank, tailor truthful resume variants against a supplied role, and keep every claim traceable to the user's own evidence.
What you will need
- local browser
- resume and job-description files
- optional OpenAI API key
People still pay for Teal Plus because people pay for convenience, curated guidance, and distribution; the personal tracking and drafting loop is highly buildable. The recurring cost buys document parsing, truthful claim handling, job-source changes, browser automation rules, privacy, model drift, and user review, not just the visible interface.
xjob-board capture, guidance, templates, keyword tooling, and hosted convenience
xproprietary recruiter data
xjob-board distribution
xhuman coaching
xautomated application networks
Prefer something ready-made?
View all 3 alternatives to Teal Plus →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.
How much does Teal Plus cost?
- Monthly billing
- $29/mo$29/mo
- Per year
- $348/yr$348/yr
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$152/moR$1,819/yr
Saved to My list. You will see a notice on this site when the price changes.
You complete the purchase on Teal Plus’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/user | $0/user | Unlimited resumes and job tracking; 10 templates; top 5 job-description keywords; 10 resume-bullet, 2 summary and 2 cover-letter AI credits. |
| teal+ | $29/user≈ $29 | - | Unlimited templates, job-description keywords and AI credits. |
Free tierUnlimited resumes/job tracking; 10 templates; top 5 job-description keywords; 10 resume-bullet, 2 summary and 2 cover-letter AI credits
Billing termsrecurring 7-day + 30-day + 90-day periods; no annual plan
Additional costsThe shortest option is $13 every 7 days, which is much costlier than the 30- or 90-day cadence; no annual discount exists.
verified 2026-08-14 · source ↗
Is it cheaper to build or buy Teal Plus?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.
Starting hours estimated from the analysis (one sitting). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).
Can I rebuild Teal Plus?
Yes. A competent AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can build a usable personal Teal Plus replacement in one session with the prompt on this page. It runs on your own machine or server with no subscription.
How much does Teal Plus cost?
Teal Plus costs about $29/mo (Teal Plus, checked 10/20/2026), which is $348 per year. That’s what you save by replacing it with one prompt.
What do I lose by replacing Teal Plus?
Honestly: job-board capture, guidance, templates, keyword tooling, and hosted convenience; proprietary recruiter data; job-board distribution; human coaching; automated application networks. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Teal Plus?
Yes: Reactive Resume (Application tracking, evidence reuse, tailored resumes and cover letters in one unusually complete free package.) Resume Matcher (Excellent at the master-resume and tailoring half; bring a separate board for the applications themselves.) JobSync (A local job-search command centre with applications, tasks, documents and model-assisted tailoring.) All 3 curated free alternatives are at https://viberadar.si/teal-plus/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.