I Built a Free Interview Follow-Up Email Generator (Because Jobscan Charges $36/Year)

Last year I was helping a friend prepare for a follow-up email after a job interview. She had just finished what she thought was a great interview, and when she went to find a template online, she hit a paywall. $36 a year. For an email she could have written in five minutes.

I closed the tab. Opened a text editor. Built something better in an afternoon.

The Problem

Job search tools like Jobscan, Zety, and others all follow the same playbook:

Let you build your resume or cover letter for free (engaging, addictive)
Make you create an account (data capture)
Put a watermark or paywall on the follow-up tools (frustration)
Demand payment to access premium templates (rage quit)

It is a subscription trap disguised as a career tool. And it preys on people at their most vulnerable — job seekers who need to send a follow-up email right now to stay top of mind.

What I Built

Interview Follow-Up Email Generator — a completely free, zero-signup, browser-based email generator.

No account. Open the page, start typing.
No watermark. Download a clean text file or PDF instantly.
No payment. Ever. Not a "freemium" model, not a trial, just free.
No data collection. Everything runs in your browser. Your interview details never touch a server.
Works offline. Once loaded, you do not even need internet.
Three tones. Professional, Friendly, or Concise — pick what fits your situation.

Why It Matters

Job hunting is stressful enough without being nickel-and-dimed for tools you need to get a job. A follow-up email generator should not be a cash grab. It should be a utility — like a hammer or a flashlight.

The fact that this exists at all is kind of wild. You can generate a professional follow-up email, personalized with your interview details, no strings attached, for zero dollars. No upsell. No "upgrade to premium." Just... done.

How It Works

Enter the company name, job title, and interviewer name
Add the interview date and any key discussion points
Choose your tone — Professional, Friendly, or Concise
Generate your email and copy it or download as text/PDF

That is it. No AI API calls, no data processing, no account creation. Just clean, fast, private email generation.

The Tech

Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS — no framework needed for this
Hosting: Static files on nginx
Deploy: One rsync, done

The whole thing is under 400 lines of code. That is it.

Open Source

It is all free and open source. Fork it, improve it, run it yourself. If you are a developer who has ever been frustrated by paywalled career tools, go build something better. It is faster than you think.

Try it: tools.jackgreen.top/interview-follow-up-email-generator-as-a-jobscan-zety

Built because someone should have done this already. Now it exists.