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If you’re looking for a job, you’re probably keeping track of applications in a spreadsheet, a notes app or your memory. The challenge is to build a browser extension that does it better: on any job posting, one click saves the role, the company, the link and the date, and a small dashboard shows every application by status, from saved to applied to interviewing to an offer or a rejection.
Browser extensions make a great first project: they’re small, they run where you already work, and you’ll use this one every day while you build it.
Job searches involve dozens of applications across many sites. People lose track of where they applied, when, which version of their resume they sent and when they should follow up. Spreadsheets work until copying each posting into them becomes tedious, and then they stop being updated.
The moment to record an application is while you’re looking at the posting, which is exactly where a browser extension lives.
A Manifest V3 extension with a popup and a dashboard page. On a job posting, the popup reads the page’s title and address and lets you correct the role and company before saving. Applications are kept in the browser’s extension storage, so nothing leaves the computer and no server is needed.
The dashboard lists applications by status, lets you move them along, add notes and a follow-up date, and export everything as CSV. Use an AI coding assistant to learn the extension APIs faster, and write down in your build log what you had to look up yourself.
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