TalentLaunch

One place for CS freshers to find jobs, fix their resume and practice interviews, free.Stop juggling ten tools. Launch your career with TalentLaunch.Your first tech job, all in one place.

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Inspiration

I saw many CS freshers around me struggle to get their first job. Every job site asks for experience, and to get ready you need many different tools: one site for jobs, one for resume checks, one for interview practice. It is tiring, and many people give up. I wanted to build one free place that does all of it.

What it does

TalentLaunch helps CS freshers get their first job.

  • Job search: collects openings from about 20 sources at once, removes duplicates and marks roles that suit freshers.
  • 28 AI tools: resume check, cover letter, resume "roast", offer comparison, salary help and more.
  • Voice interview: the AI asks questions out loud and you answer by speaking, then you get feedback.
  • Tracker: save jobs, track each application and export the list as a PDF.
  • Motivation: points, badges and daily streaks keep you going.
  • Extras: dark, light and neon themes, 4 languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu) and an installable web app (PWA).

How I built it

  • Frontend and backend: Next.js 14 (App Router), TypeScript and Tailwind CSS.
  • Database and login: MongoDB Atlas with Mongoose, JWT login, and roles for student, recruiter and admin.
  • Jobs: I call many job APIs in parallel with Promise.allSettled, set a time limit for slow ones, and remove duplicates by title and company.
  • AI: five free AI providers (Groq, Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, OpenAI) behind one adapter. If one fails, the next one answers automatically.
  • Voice: the browser's Web Speech API for listening and speaking.
  • Share cards: drawn on the Canvas API as images.

Challenges I ran into

  • Slow or broken job APIs. Some sources time out or fail. I fixed this by never letting one source block the others and by keeping a backup list of jobs.
  • Free AI limits. Free plans run out or fail often. The fallback chain across five providers solved it.
  • Messy AI output. The AI sometimes returned broken JSON. I ask for a strict format and clean the answer before reading it.
  • Setup problems. Environment variables, CSP rules in the browser extension and reading PDF files all took time to debug.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

  • A working app that is free to run, with many features in one place.
  • An AI system that keeps working even when a provider goes down.

What I learned

  • Building for failure: using Promise.allSettled, time limits and fallbacks.
  • Designing roles and secure login, and working with many APIs.
  • Making a product simple enough that a fresher can use it on day one.

What's next for TalentLaunch

  • Move login tokens to secure cookies and add rate limiting.
  • Save jobs in the database instead of memory.
  • Email alerts for new fresher jobs and for campus drives.
  • A recruiter chat and a placement-cell portal for colleges.

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