Can I vibecode CVMatchScore?

KINDA · weekend project

price $4.08/moyou'd save $48.96/yrbuild time one sittingcategory 💼 careerreplaced by 0 people

The core loop, resume plus job posting into an LLM holding a scoring rubric, is one prompt and an afternoon, and for improving one resume against one posting it genuinely works. The honest gap is calibration: a rubric you wrote today measures today's mood, two runs of the same resume can disagree, and a 72 means nothing without a baseline of scored applications behind it. Fine as a mirror, thin as a measuring stick.

the prompt

Build me a local resume match scorer to replace CVMatchScore. Requirements:

- A Node 22 CLI: `match score resume.pdf job.txt` prints a score table and writes
  a Markdown report to reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<company>.md.
- Extract resume text with pdf-parse; accept .txt and .md for the job posting.
- Keep the rubric in rubric.json: 10 criteria (skills overlap, seniority fit,
  domain experience, quantified achievements, education, keyword coverage,
  employment gaps, clarity, length, ATS-safety), each with a 0-10 definition
  and a weight.
- One Anthropic structured-outputs call scores all criteria at once and must
  quote the resume line that justifies each score, no unquoted claims.
- A second cheap pass lists the 10 most important posting keywords missing from
  the resume and where each could honestly fit.
- Weighted total out of 100, computed in code from rubric.json, not by the model.
- Store every run in SQLite via better-sqlite3: date, company, total, and the
  per-criterion JSON, so `match history` shows my scores over time.
- API key from .env. No accounts, no telemetry, the resume never leaves my
  machine except the API call.
- Out of scope: cover letter generation, DOC/DOCX parsing, multi-language
  support, and recruiter-style bulk ranking.
- README: setup, cost per run, and a warning that scores are only comparable
  within one rubric version, so bump a version field in rubric.json when I edit it.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter) or copy it raw

why people still pay

At 49 USD a year it is priced below the hassle of maintaining your own: job seekers pay for stable scores they can track across applications, cover letters generated from the same pass, and not burning API credits mid job hunt.

what you lose

xa calibrated rubric that scores the same resume the same way twice

x50+ language support tested per parameter

xDOC, DOCX, and RTF parsing beyond PDF

ximprovement plans and tailored cover letters built from the same analysis

xscores comparable across weeks of applications

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the escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.

Resume-MatcherA local resume-vs-posting matcher that runs against Ollama, so the scoring stays on your machine; you install it, it does the job, and nobody bills you.28kaug 2026open source↗

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the numbers

CVMatchScore pricing

pro$4.08/mo · yearly, converted to monthly · $48.96/yr

free tier3 full reports in the first 7 days, all 19 parameters, no credit card.

verified 2026-08-10 · source ↗

questions

Is CVMatchScore free?

3 full reports in the first 7 days, all 19 parameters, no credit card. Paid is PRO at $4.08/mo (checked 2026-08-10).