Inspiration
I was getting frustrated of how long it takes to find job offers, apply on them, build up CV, or email, and then for each offer change the content of email to make it match the applied position. It was pure waste of time. Hours & weeks getting wasted. You go over hundreds of job offers, just to find the very few ones that match. You finally send the emails, and then silence... for weeks, months - they barely reply at all.”
What it does
This project takes criteria necessary for finding job offers, dispatches the search task and notifies user about finished searching. Once the search results are delivered user can go over the found job offers and apply them all at once by using earlier prepared email template.
Long story short, You can call this: Job application spammer if You like it this way.
How I built it
It all started with digging up and old project of mine which actually had the same goal "reducing time spent on searching for job offers", but it was a pure spaghetti code.
So I've taken the idea I've had, reworked it and I've originally had an idea to start a SASS but there were obstacles that made it impossible, so project went into open-source.
Challenges I ran into
There were quite a few obstacles on the way, well the project was built solo over the years, so I've had to find time to work on it.
I think that the biggest issue that I've faced and was unable to beat it was "law", because the project is purelly scrapping based, so it's not possible to start it as a bussines without having bunch of lawyers on my back.
Other case is that this project was not fully properly planned, there were some bad decissions made when writing the code, and I've managed to run into a case where I had to decide if I stop working on it, spend next 2 weeks up to month rewriting one module, or fine some fishy solution to make things work. Basically concurency almost killed this tool.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I've finished the tool. It took me like 2 years to make it work. Maybe I didn't managed to turn this into bussines but that's the biggest, cleanest solo-tool that I've ever built and I don't think I'll ever beat that since I don't feel like I'm up for 3rd big tool.
What I learned
Better code quality, planning, scalability, payments integrations, websockets, getting better with docker, rabbit and so on and on, the list is long. This tool consists of several bundles and sub-projects so it was great field of learning.
What's next for Voltigo
That depends on the open-source community, I had and still have a lot of ideas for the tool, but I have to find out first if I can get any income from this at all.
If there are people willing to support me and the project, then I can decide If i want to go on with that tool further.
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