Show HN: Job Log – Job Application Tracker

[dyz]

Happy Friday HN!

Long time lurker, first time poster here. I, along with many others in recent times, have been affected by the layoffs impacting the tech industry, and I'm currently on the software engineering job hunt. I had been tracking my job applications via Excel to help facilitate my WA state unemployment claims, but am (personally) anti-Excel / against using spreadsheets. I also wanted to explore the latest and greatest NextJS / Vercel features, so thought this would be a great time to learn something new! Job Log was never really meant to see the light of day for other users, but I thought "why not?" if it might help others in their job search hunt.

Note: this was built in about a week, so will definitely be a little rough around the edges. Please be patient as I continue to build on this!

You can learn more here: https://joblog-phi.vercel.app/about

Feel free to leave any feedback here in this thread or email me at [e-mail]! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

[boofbaf]

I like this. I am laid off as well tracking applications in excel and I hate the double data entry.

Have you thought of implementing something like tripit? The way it would work is after applying for a job, I would forward the confirmation email to appplications@joblogservice and you would parse the email to get company and application date.

You could even enrich the data by adding company details details from crunchbase or similar.

Similarly, we could forward the interview and rejection emails to the same address to track those milestones

You have something here

[dyz]

Thanks for taking a look and the feedback! I haven't heard of tripit, will take some time to explore it. There is definitely some room / appetite for some form of integrations to help "automate" the process, but haven't taken the time to really dive deep here, but I'm glad that someone else has mentioned this too!

[coldtrait]

I'm in the same boat - laid off and learning NextJS. I might give this a shot!

I think one feature that might be useful is a "Notes" column that could be anything miscellaneous about the process - interview was weird, etc.

[dyz]

Good luck with the application process! I hear you about the "Notes" column -- I actually had the same thought when I was making this very first version. Don't worry, this will be added as a column shortly!

[coldtrait]

Thank you! Good luck with the search!

[dyz]

The "Notes" feature is now live!

[coldtrait]

Hey do you mind if I can contact you with some questions about NextJS? I was working on setting up something and wasn't sure what direction to go in.

[dyz]

Yeah sure thing, feel free to email me at the email on the post. No guarantees that I will have all the answers, I'm still learning too! We can chat there or potentially exchange disc if you've got that too.

[coldtrait]

Sent you an email. I'm on discord as oedox.