Graduates
Sending lots, hearing little. Early on, volume is the job, and Jobstead shows that it adds up.
A kinder version of the job hunt.
Jobstead is a job tracker with a garden growing inside it. Log your applications, deadlines and outreach, and every step you take grows something you can see.
Jobstead’s made for anyone who’s heard “no”, or nothing, a few too many times.
Career changers
New field, new set of rejections. One calm place for what’s next, and a reason to keep going.
Long searches
Week six or week twenty-six. When the wait drags on, small wins and a growing garden help.
Most of a job hunt is invisible.
You tailor the CV. You rewrite the cover letter. You press send, and then you wait. Sometimes a “no” comes back. More often, nothing does.
So it’s easy to feel you’ve done nothing at all, when really you’ve done loads. The effort is real. It just doesn’t leave a mark.
Jobstead is built to change that and make the whole process rewarding.
Every no is compost for the next yes.
Here’s one application, from seed to Golden Apple.
So how does a job application turn into a garden? Log one below and play it through. It works just like the app: you log what happened, and the garden responds.
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Log it
Add the company, the role and the salary. That earns you a Seed Pouch.
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Open the pouch
Seeds come in four rarities. A tailored CV or cover letter adds a little luck.
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Move it forward
Get an interview and the plant grows, with a bonus Seed Pouch too. In the app, every stage counts.
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Whatever the answer
An offer earns the Golden Apple. A no becomes compost that helps the next crop grow better.
Your applicationPress “Log it” to add one
Applied
Press “Log it” to add your first application.
Underneath the flowers, it’s a proper tracker.
A garden is lovely, but it won’t remind you that Thursday’s deadline is tomorrow. So Jobstead does the useful, slightly boring part properly, and everything you log there is what makes the garden grow.
And it’s not only applications that count.
Everything you log in the tracker feeds the garden, including the awkward, brave, unglamorous parts of a job hunt. Some of them count extra.
Rejection and silence count as well. They aren’t the end of a plant. They’re what the next one grows from.
So what’s in those Seed Pouches?
Each pouch opens with a slot-machine-style reveal, and there are 21 crops to find across four rarities. Water your plants to help them grow, then harvest them for coins and compost. Compost makes a plot’s soil rich, which boosts every harvest from it. Tap one. They like the attention.
And the Golden Apple
The one you can’t find in a pouch. It only grows from an offer: a keepsake, and a symbol of your dedication.
Make the garden yours.
Once things are growing, the garden becomes somewhere to spend a few quiet minutes. Harvests earn coins, and coins buy extra beds, rain barrels, beehives and decorations. The sky follows the real time of day, so your garden glows at dusk and the crickets come out at night.
Go on, tap the cat. Or the bluebird. Or Rufus.
Little things for long searches.
Job hunts are rarely quick, so Jobstead has a few things for the slow weeks.
24 achievements
From “First Seed” to “Thick Skin” (log three rejections and keep going) and “Door Knocker” (show up to an office in person). Plus a crop collection to complete.
A streak and a weekly goal
Choose how many applications you’re aiming for each week. Jobstead keeps count, keeps your streak, and nudges you when an application has gone quiet.
Sound, if you want it
Warm chords and soft piano, wind and birdsong by day, crickets at night. Each has its own volume slider.
It saves as you go
Every change autosaves, half-filled forms come back, and you can export a backup whenever you like, or bring your old applications in from a spreadsheet.
What happens in the garden stays in the garden.
It’s your job hunt, so it stays yours.
No ads. No tracking.
Nobody is watching how you garden.
Yours to take with you
Export a backup whenever you like, and bring your old applications in from a spreadsheet.
Your garden, on every device
Sign in with your email and your garden comes with you. Your data is stored only so it can sync.
Questions, answered.
Jobstead starts at £1.99 a week or £5.99 a month.
Yes. You sign up with your email, which keeps your garden safe and lets it follow you onto any device. We’re letting people in a few at a time, so if the places are full you can join the waitlist, or use a referral code from a friend to skip it.
It’s stored only so your garden can sync to your devices. There are no ads and no tracking.
Yes. Export a full backup of your data whenever you like.
No to both. You log things yourself, and the garden responds. That’s the whole trick.
It was built in the UK, so the examples use London and £, but nothing about it is UK-only.
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Your next application could be a seed.
Plant one today. Rufus will keep an eye on it.