For tech students and freshers
Skip the pile. Reach the founder.
SkipATS is a Telegram bot that does your job-hunt outreach for tech roles. Send your resume, GitHub or portfolio, or just talk about your work. It does the rest.
SkipATS means skip the ATS: the software that filters your resume before a person ever reads it. Built for software, data, ML, DevOps, security and QA roles.
- Finds startups the week they raisebefore the job is even posted
- Finds the founder's real emailchecked, never careers@
- Writes the note from your own workevery line fact-checked
- Sends from your Gmail, follows uponly when you tap Send
Free in Telegram. Invite-only beta: with an invite you're in straight away. No invite? The bot puts you on the waitlist and messages you when a spot opens.
See it for your field
No projects yet? Tap No projects yet to see what the bot does: it asks about your background instead, and carries on from there.
SkipATS is only for tech roles: software, data, ML, DevOps, security and QA. Any branch or college is fine if you're aiming for one of them; other fields aren't supported.
Animation on a phone: a student sends a resume, a GitHub link, a portfolio link and a voice note to the SkipATS Telegram bot. The bot finds three startups that fit, writes an email to a founder, checks the founder's address and fact-checks every line. The student taps Send, the email goes out from their Gmail, and the founder replies asking for a call on Thursday.
- You tell it about youSend a resume, a link or a voice note. No projects? Just say so.
- It finds startups that fit youNew ones every day, each with a line on why it fits.
- It writes to the founderFrom your own work, to a checked address, every line fact-checked.
- You tap SendNothing leaves your Gmail until you do. Change a word and it waits again.
- A founder writes backThe bot follows up if it's quiet, and tells you the moment they reply.
Same week. Two very different inboxes.
Two students. Same skills. Same placement season.
Animation on a phone: a student taps Apply on job after job, then gets a rejection, a stuck status and a profile view with no reply. The counter reaches 147 applications and zero replies.
- Apply. Apply. Apply.Every job has thousands of applicants and the same form.
- Then the auto-replies"Moved forward with other candidates", "under review", a profile view and nothing else.
- 147 applications, 0 repliesRead first by a filter, not a person. One of 2,400.
- Read first by a keyword filter
- One of 2,400 applicants
- Silence, or "other candidates"
Animation on a phone: a student reads a ready email in the SkipATS bot, taps Send, sees it go out from Gmail with a follow-up queued, and gets a push notification that a founder replied asking for a call.
- A ready email, a checked addressWritten from his own work. He reads it and taps Send.
- Sent from his own GmailOne tap. Nothing goes out without it.
- No reply? The bot follows upSame thread, a few days later, so he never has to remember.
- A founder writes backHe gets an alert the moment it happens, and a call is on.
- Read first by the founder
- A personal note, not an application
- A reply, and a call
Illustration with example numbers from one placement season.
See how your email would read.
Type a few lines. The preview is built right here in your browser: no startup is picked, nothing is sent and nothing is saved.
[yellow] is what the real bot fills in: a startup that fits you, the founder's checked address, and one true detail from their own site.
It also fact-checks every line you wrote against what you told it. You read it and tap Send.
Get a real one in TelegramHow to use SkipATS. Six taps away.
It all happens in one Telegram chat. Pick a step to see the screen.
What it reads for you, every day
- Y Combinator
- Hacker News
- TechCrunch
- Crunchbase News
- Inc42
- YourStory
- Entrackr
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- Ashby
SkipATSbotSkipATSbot · finds startups, writes to foundersSTART/start
hey! i'm SkipATS 👋 i find startups that fit your work, write to the founder and follow up.
what's your name?
Riya
nice to meet you Riya. drop your resume, LinkedIn PDF, GitHub, portfolio, anything. a voice note works too 🎤
Riya_Resume.pdf
github.com/riya-codes
also built the site for our college fest, it held 3k visitors on launch day
0:42
got it 💪 reading all of it, voice note too…
quick read: you load-tested a platform you built yourself. that's your headline.
what kind of roles are you after?
backend, full-time
and where? 📍
India, or remote abroad
locked in. i'll look at India (remote or onsite) and remote-only startups abroad. first matches soon ☀️
☀️ 3 startups fit you today
Why they fit
- IIncidentZerojust raisedyour staging-failure project is close to what they sellIndia
- Da dev-tools startupremote
- Fa fintech startupIndia
tell me about IncidentZero
they just raised and build incident drills. your staging-failure project is the closest thing to what they sell.
email to the founder of IncidentZero
Hey Founder, I've been running IncidentZero's outage drills to practise on-call, and they're close to what I built for my final-year project. I broke a staging Kubernetes cluster 20 times on purpose (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, DNS failures) and wrote a runbook for each failure, from the first alert to the fix. I'm a final-year CS student looking for an early-career SRE role. Would you consider someone at my stage for the team?
✓ founder email checked✓ every line fact-checkedmake it shorter and mention my GitHub
done ✍️ re-checked every line.
To: [email protected] checked
Hey Founder, I've been running IncidentZero's outage drills to practise on-call, and they're close to what I built for my final-year project. I broke a staging Kubernetes cluster 20 times on purpose (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, DNS failures) and wrote a runbook for each failure, from the first alert to the fix.
SendEditsent from your Gmail ✓ i'll follow up on day 4 if it's quiet
📩 Founder replied "Loved the runbooks. Free Thursday?"
Bonus: unlock the full potential
Small things you can say to the bot that make your emails land harder.
- Drop your GitHubReal projects become the proof in every email."here's my github"
- Send a voice noteTalk through a project. It writes the facts down.🎤 0:42
- Say what came of itA number turns "I built" into "it worked"."load time 3.2s to 1.1s"
- Edit by chattingNo forms. Just tell it what to change."make it shorter"
- Ask about any startupWhat they build and why you fit, in a message."tell me about X"
- Go remote abroadSet your country. Foreign remote startups join your list."include remote abroad"
Why founders actually reply
ToFounder <[email protected]>
SubjectSRE role at IncidentZero
Hey Founder,
I've been running IncidentZero's outage drills to practise on-call, and they're close to what I built for my final-year project.
I broke a staging Kubernetes cluster 20 times on purpose (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, DNS failures) and wrote a runbook for each failure, from the first alert to the fix.
I'm a final-year CS student looking for an early-career SRE role. Would you consider someone at my stage for the team?
Best,
Riya
Staging failure runbooks
- A founder, not a filterStraight to the person who can hire. Never careers@.
- Their work in the first lineWhat they built, then where your work meets it. Never a template opener.
- One real story, every fact trueWhat you did, with the numbers, checked line by line.
- One easy question, from your GmailWho you are, one role, and a question a founder can answer in a line.
See exactly what a pass unlocks.
Same bot. Same email. One of them can actually be sent.
The email is ready, but it stays here.The founder's address is hidden and Send is locked until you have a pass.
Free in Telegram
- Your profile, built from your real projects
- New startups that fit you, every day
- Why each one fits you
- 2 written emails a day
- The founder's checked email
- Sending from your Gmail
- Follow-ups and reply alerts
- The dashboard
- A ready email, a checked addressWith a pass you see the founder's real address and Send works.
- One tap, from your GmailIt goes out under your name. Nothing before your tap.
- Day 4: it follows up for youNo reply, so the bot writes back in the same thread. You don't have to remember.
- Day 6: the founder repliesYou get an alert and a call-prep note before you get on the call.
A pass everything in Free, plus
- The founder's checked email so you never guess an address
- One-tap send from your own Gmail
- Auto follow-ups in the same thread, day 4 and day 10
- Reply alerts and a call-prep note
- Unlimited drafts and edits by chat
- Your dashboard with every lead and reply
- Reply guarantee on 30 and 90 day passes
No founder reply on a 30 or 90 day pass? We add time. No auto-renew.
Who's behind it, and what it can touch.
Built by a student
SkipATS is built by Daksh Sawhney, a final-year CS student at HBTU Kanpur, for his own job hunt first. It's now open to a small invite-only beta of students.
Your Gmail, in plain words
- Sends the emails you tap Send on
- In beta, checks replies to those emails so follow-ups stop
- Sends nothing you haven't approved
- Doesn't open your other mail
Tip: use a Gmail just for job hunting. Remove access any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Your data
Your profile is used only to write your emails. Gmail access tokens are stored encrypted. Send /delete_everything in the bot and your profile, files, matches, drafts and Gmail connection are wiped. Read the privacy page.
Questions
Straight answers, including the ones that aren't flattering.
Who is it for?
Tech students and freshers aiming for software (backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile), data, ML, DevOps, security or QA roles. Any branch, any college, any year: second and third years use it for internships. It doesn't cover non-tech roles.
How is it different from job portals?
On portals your application sits in a pile that software reads first. SkipATS finds startups that just raised money, launched or started hiring, finds the founder, and writes them one short email about their work and yours. Then it follows up for you.
Is cold emailing a founder weird or rude?
Not when it's short and about their work. Early-stage founders read their own inbox, and one specific note beats a hundred portal applications. What's rude is a blast, so SkipATS sends a few at a time, writes each one about that startup, and never sends two students to the same founder in the same month.
Will the founder think a bot wrote it?
You send it, so it's yours. It's written from your own projects, every fact is checked against what you told the bot, and you read and change it before it goes. Edit a word and it waits for your tap again.
Will it send anything without asking me?
Never. Every first email, follow-up and answer waits for you to tap Send. Edit a word and the new version waits for your tap again.
What does it do with my Gmail?
It sends the emails you approve, from your own address, so replies land in your inbox. During the beta it also watches replies to those emails, so follow-ups stop the moment someone answers. It only looks at the threads it started for you, never your other mail, and you can remove access any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Will my college or parents see this?
No. It goes from your own Gmail and replies land in your inbox. Your dashboard is private to your login. Founders see your name and email, like any email you'd send.
What if nobody replies?
It happens. The bot follows up twice in the same thread (day 4 and day 10) and stops the moment someone answers or says no. On 30 and 90 day passes, no founder reply in 30 emails means your next 30 days are free.
What does it cost?
Starting is free in Telegram: your profile, startups that fit you every day and 2 written emails a day. A pass unlocks the founder's email, one-tap sending from your Gmail, follow-ups and your dashboard. Passes run 7, 30 or 90 days; prices are published at launch, and beta members keep the beta price while they renew.
Why pay, if I could email founders myself?
You can, and doing it well works. It's just slow: finding a startup that fits, checking it, finding the founder and a real address, and writing something specific and true takes a couple of hours per founder. SkipATS does that every day, so your part is reading the email and tapping Send.
Does it guarantee a job?
No. It gets your work in front of the people who decide, with emails you'd be proud to send. The interviews are yours to win.
Can I delete my data?
Yes. Send /delete_everything in the chat and it wipes your profile, files, matches, drafts and Gmail connection.