Epitaph

Inspiration

job hunting sucks, especially with confusing rejection emails

What it does

Epitaph will scan emails from a users imap server, read application status emails, determine if it was a rejection or not, and then store the parsed email info in a viewable table on a web site.

How I built it

Backend was built with Kintone. Spent a lot of time self-learning email-parsing with node.js. Email data was parsed with CloudFlare Text Aware worker API.

Challenges I ran into

Figuring out how to parse emails into JSON (kicked out of sendgrid, mailgun didn't offer enough information, etc). This ate most of my time, and I plan to work on this in the future

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Finally getting my nodejs script to parse emails in a json format

What I learned

Tackle learning spikes early, possibly before the hackathon.

What's next for Epitaph

improve infrastructure, display message body and subject, train AI to target emails related to job applications

Built With

• kintone
• node.js