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Sorce's Tinder-for-jobs bet: AI applies for you; 25k interviews, 100M social views
Swipe-right job app whose AI agent fills application forms; 25,000+ interviews facilitated and 100M+ organic social views, while critics call it parasitic.
Sorce (formerly Swype)
What the business is
Sorce is a swipe-first job app: users upload a résumé, swipe right on roles, and an AI agent fills out the application forms on the employer's career site, writes tailored cover letters and tracks outcomes.
How it started
Three Nigerian founders — Oluwapelumi Dada (CEO), Daniel Ajayi (CTO) and David Alade — launched the app in August 2024, initially as Swype, after watching job seekers retype the same information across dozens of portals. Dada's widely shared founder story describes turning down Tesla and Dell offers to keep building.
What happened
Sorce grew almost entirely through organic social content: the founders filmed themselves explaining the product and accumulated over 100M TikTok/Instagram views with no paid marketing. It joined YC's Fall 2025 batch; by October 2025 it listed ~1.6M openings and claimed ~400,000 users, and by December 2025 it claimed 25,000+ interviews facilitated over a year. Reaction split: candidates flocked to it, while Futurism and X users called it parasitic — applying en masse and polluting an already AI-screened job market.
How it ended up
Still running: no meaningful revenue as of late 2025; the company dropped paid swipes and plans to monetize on the employer side like a job board, per co-founder David Alade (TBPN, 2025-12-03).
Background
Sorce is a swipe-first job application: users upload a résumé once, swipe right on roles, and an AI agent navigates to the employer's career site, fills out the application forms, writes tailored cover letters and tracks results. The founders' thesis is that the bottleneck in job search is not finding openings but the grind of applying, so they automate the grind and let users focus on choosing roles.
The app launched in August 2024, initially as Swype, built by three Nigerians — Oluwapelumi Dada, Daniel Ajayi and David Alade — who turned down Tesla and Dell offers to keep building. Growth came almost entirely from organic social content: the founders filmed themselves talking about the product and accumulated over 100 million TikTok and Instagram views with no paid marketing, eventually joining YC's Fall 2025 batch.
By October 2025 Sorce listed roughly 1.6 million openings with about 400,000 users; by December 2025 co-founder David Alade claimed 25,000+ interviews facilitated in a year across roles from software engineering at Anduril to line cook. The traction drew backlash: Futurism called it a parasitic startup polluting the job market, and X users decried the AI-apply arms race. As of late 2025 the company had no meaningful revenue, having dropped paid swipes, and planned employer-side monetization.
What has to be true
- The bet is explicit and testable: candidates will delegate job applications to an AI agent, and enough volume creates its own marketplace.
- Traction is specific and dated: 25,000+ interviews facilitated, 100M+ organic social views, 20M+ swipes and ~400,000 users across independent outlets.
- The backlash documents the bet's risk: recruiters and critics see mass AI applications as pollution, an arms race that could trigger employer-side defenses.
- It shows a two-sided marketplace entered from only one side — a repeatable pattern for consumer AI startups.
What can be applied
When a marketplace is stuck, hack one side: automate what users already do by hand, go viral on TikTok to build demand, and defer the employer side until you have an audience to sell.
Aftermath
As of 2026-09-02 Sorce is active per its YC F25 profile (founded 2024, six-person team, San Francisco). Its December 2025 strategy, per co-founder David Alade, was product-first: no meaningful revenue, a free swipe model, and employer-side monetization later. Independent coverage through late 2025 put users at roughly 400,000 and interviews facilitated at 25,000+; the company's own pages claim larger figures not independently verified here.
Sources
- Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically
- David Alade on Sorce: AI job-application app that has facilitated 25,000+ interviews via browser agents
- Sorce: Tinder for jobs
- Sorce joins Y Combinator: the 'Tinder for jobs' built by three Nigerians
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