Company
The job search is broken and everyone knows it. We built Shotgun instead of complaining about it.
The story
Shotgun started because the numbers are genuinely insane. 250+ applicants per corporate role. 75% of resumes filtered before a human reads them. Six-month average job searches for new grads. An entire generation grinding through a process designed to wear them down.
The problem isn't that people aren't trying hard enough. The problem is that “trying hard” in a broken system just means more manual work, more rejection letters, and more months pretending you're “between opportunities.”
We built Shotgun to fix the math. Not by fixing the system — that's someone else's problem — but by making sure our users win it anyway. More applications, better tailored, faster dispatched, all tracked in one place.
The market is cooked. Just apply to f*cking everything.
The founder
Hudson Hildebrand
Gold Coast-based designer and builder. Runs Hudhild — a CRO design agency for ecommerce brands. Shotgun is the side project that got too real to stay a side project.
Finance and Marketing student. Doesn't own a suit. Will post about Shotgun every day until it works, then keep posting.
What we stand for
The job search is broken and we say that out loud. We don't dress it up as an 'opportunity' or tell you to 'optimise your mindset.' The system disadvantages applicants, and Shotgun is the correction.
Manual applicants average 40–60 applications before an offer. Shotgun users average 400+. The data is clear. Applying to more things — well-tailored, well-matched things — works.
Every cover letter clears a quality threshold before it sends. If it reads like GPT wrote it at 3am, it doesn't go out. We care more about the output quality than the number.
Cancellation is one click. Refunds unconditional in the first 14 days. Pricing published and plain. Your data stays yours. These aren't selling points — they're baseline standards.