About Us
The GoodApps Company is a small software company in New York City. We are the anti-enshittification company: we build user-centric apps for a user-centric future.
Enshittification is the word for how a useful app slowly becomes one you merely tolerate, as it gets tuned for the company’s numbers instead of the people using it. We don’t believe that’s inevitable. It’s a series of choices, and we’re happily making different ones. Here they are, each with a receipt from Career App and MissedTakes, because a principle is worth the most when you can check it.
What we build by
Consent is the default
Nothing reaches you that you didn’t agree to. Not messages, not recruiters, not notifications you never asked for.
Career App: On Career App, recruiters can only message members who accept their outreach request, and every email category is a choice in your settings.
MissedTakes: MissedTakes needs no account to read. Making one is optional, for keeping your own picks, and the newsletter asks before it sends anything.
We respect your attention
We don’t manufacture reasons to open the app. Come when it’s useful, leave when you’re done — that’s what a good visit looks like to us.
Career App: Career App has no streaks, no infinite-scroll bait, and reputation points come only from verified events — an organization confirming it hired you, a real coworker vouching for you. Posting volume earns nothing.
MissedTakes: MissedTakes ranks analysts on how much better they did than a naive guess, not on how much they published. Posting more takes cannot move you up.
Ghosting is a bug, not a norm
Silence is the cruelest default in hiring software. Ours is built so people hear back.
Career App: Job listings that leave applicants unanswered too long are automatically hidden from new candidates until the employer responds — even a no counts. Our own support works the same way: resolving a ticket always notifies the person who opened it.
MissedTakes: MissedTakes publishes accuracy figures about named people, so it shipped a corrections channel on its first public day. A correction reaches a person, and a grade we change says so in public.
Honest by construction
Good behavior shouldn’t depend on our willpower. Where we can, we build the promise into the system so it can’t erode quietly.
Career App: Unsubscribe links work without logging in. The anti-ghosting rule is enforced by code, not policy. Salary figures members share only ever appear as aggregates of five or more people, by construction.
MissedTakes: MissedTakes publishes the whole scoring method and shows the arithmetic beside every graded call. Where a result is not in yet, or we simply have not loaded it, the call stays ungraded and the gap is recorded as ours rather than charged to the analyst.
The founder
Ben Garves founded The GoodApps Company in 2026 after fifteen years of building software products inside companies of every size — from managing digital products at Bloomberg, to leading product for USA Today’s Reviewed as Senior Director of Product Management at Gannett, to senior product roles at SolarWinds, Benefitfocus, and Coursera, where he works on user acquisition.
A career spent watching product decisions get made — good ones and the other kind — is exactly what convinced him the trade-offs behind enshittification are optional. Career App is the proof of concept: the network he wished existed every time he was on either side of a job search.
He lives in New York City, and yes — his resume lives on his Career App profile, where else?
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