Quick update on some changes you'll notice if you log into MapleStack this weekend.
I've removed the AI-powered features: cover letter generation, match scoring, resume parsing. They're gone.
If you built a cover letter here last year or ran a match score, you'll notice those tabs are no longer in your dashboard. I want to explain why, and what I'm doubling down on instead.
Why
When I launched these AI tools in 2024, ChatGPT was clunky for most people and Claude wasn't widely known yet. There was a real gap: most job seekers couldn't easily produce a personalised cover letter or analyse how their resume stacked up against a job description.
That gap has closed. ChatGPT and Claude are now free, available everywhere, and excellent at exactly this kind of writing task. A purpose-built tool sitting on top of the same foundation models can't out-compete the models themselves; it just adds friction. You can paste a job description into Claude right now and get a personalised cover letter in ten seconds, for free, with no signup.
Meanwhile, the part of MapleStack that's been quietly working is the free aggregator: jobs pulled directly from Canadian company career pages, search that doesn't drown you in reposts, alerts that go out reliably. People find that through Google, sign up for alerts, and come back. That's where the value is, and that's where the focus belongs.
So I'm removing the AI features and putting that energy into two things: making the free job-search experience genuinely the best place to find Canadian work, and giving Canadian employers a clean, no-middleman channel to reach engaged candidates.
What stays free for job seekers
- Unlimited job search. Thousands of roles from Canadian companies, updated daily. No limits, no cap.
- Free job alerts. Daily or weekly, based on role, location, and whatever else you care about.
- Direct links to employer career pages. When you hit "Apply," you go to the company's site. No middleman, no "this job was reposted from seven other boards."
- Save jobs and searches. Come back on your own schedule.
You don't even need an account for the basics. Paste your email on maplestack.ca and the daily Canadian-jobs digest starts tomorrow. Make an account if you want filters, saved searches, and custom alerts.
All of this is free. There is no paid tier for candidates anymore. I'm not holding features back behind a paywall and waiting for you to upgrade.
What's new for employers
If you're hiring Canadian talent, MapleStack is now a real channel worth your attention.
Featured listings appear at the top of search results and at the top of the daily jobs digest going to thousands of Canadian candidates. Saved-search alerts that match a candidate's role and region surface featured listings first too. Pricing starts at CAD 199 for a 30-day listing. No per-applicant fees, no candidate data locked behind a platform.
If you'd rather have your career page indexed automatically so your open roles show up the moment they're posted, that's free. Hundreds of Canadian companies are already in the index this way.
Details on how it works, how to claim your company profile, or how to request removal: How your company appears on MapleStack.
What this means for existing users
If you had an active MapleStack account:
- Your saved jobs, saved searches, and job alerts are intact. Nothing's deleted.
- Your alert emails may look slightly different. They now use the simpler format (no match scores inline). Same jobs, same cadence.
- The Cover Letters and Resumes sections are gone from your dashboard. Documents you created there are preserved in my database; I'll either export them to you or purge them based on what makes sense. Email [email protected] if you want a copy of anything.
A note on being independent
MapleStack is bootstrapped. No VC, no acquisition goal. Just a Canadian developer trying to build a job board that respects your time and links you directly to the companies doing the hiring.
Thanks for being here. If you've got thoughts, honest ones, email [email protected] directly.
Peter Founder, MapleStack