Inspiration

During my own job search a few months back I experienced the current market and saw how hard it got to find a job as a software engineer. I had to juggle around a lot of applications at the same time and keep track on when to follow up on them and prepare for the next upcoming stages. That's when I looked first for an application that does this job and then decided to built it myself.

What it does

JobTrackr tracks applications! Duh. It can import a job description from most of the usual job sites and can provide some AI-driven company research to make it easier to prepare for interview rounds. For each application a template can be selected and customized to reflect the process the application is going through and set reminders for deadlines .

How we built it

I started out with bolt.new to create the prototype for the frontend including the supabase integration offered there and decided after a couple of iterations to take what it did and finish it with Claude Code, which helped me preparing it for deployment on netlify. For the AI features I used n8n workflows which are great for this.

Challenges we ran into

The deployment on netlify made some features more challenging due to the serverless environment but I worked around that using n8n workflows.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The combination of serverless technology using netlify and n8n workflows work quite well and powerful together.

What we learned

It was super easy to built this using AI tools and I'm quite amazed about that. Also it was a first for me to deploy on netlify and the DX is amazing but also comes with some challenges due to the environment.

What's next for JobTrackr

There're still tons of potential features to explore like integrating with the users email to automate progressing of applications or show summaries of communications about a stage right in the applcation.

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