Juicebox founders manually recreated 100 user searches daily to audit quality
David Paffenholz · He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia... · PMF Show · Dec 11, 2025 · at 30:03
David Paffenholz describes the manual feedback loop he and his co-founder used to debug and improve Juicebox's AI candidate search algorithms.
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“We had like internal Slack bot that pinged us every time a user ran a search, and then we would manually go and recreate that search and At some point that became like a hundred searches a day that we would go and manually recreate and then assess whether we serve the right profiles for that search or what we could be doing better.”
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