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Personal / self-hosted

Application Tracker

A personal workspace for job applications, versioned resumes and a clear history of what happened next.

My role

Personal application development

Focus

Personal project / Document workflows / Analytics

Read the story
Application Tracker dashboard with application statuses and a searchable work queueView full size ↗
Running application with fictional companies and seeded demo history. These are example outcomes, not personal job-search results.
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Immutable resume versions

02

Searchable application timelines

03

Exports and funnel analytics

Built with

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker

A closer look

Application Tracker analytics with a weekly chart and application funnel
Weekly activity and funnel stages use the event history, with sample-size limits on rates and averages. Demo data shown.

Context

A job search produces many small pieces of information: a posting, a tailored resume, an application date and a follow-up. The useful record is how those pieces relate over time.

What I built

  • Application history: quick capture, duplicate warnings, status changes and a readable event timeline.
  • Resume provenance: immutable versions linked to the applications that used them.
  • Find and compare: full-text search, JSON/CSV exports and funnel analytics.
  • A local extension path: guided resume preparation and reviewed career-context tooling.

Design decisions

A resume is not just the latest file with a familiar name. Preserving the exact version submitted to a role makes the application history more meaningful.

The data model keeps documents, applications and events connected without losing earlier states. Newer AI-assisted preparation work uses reviewed context and claim approval, so a generated suggestion does not automatically become an accepted career claim.

Project overview

The core application uses Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Drizzle. It is a personal, self-hosted tool built around a single-user workflow, with Docker packaging and private-access deployment documentation.

The committed foundation includes the resume library, event history, search, export and analytics. Newer local work explores document preparation and optional email/workflow integrations. Those extensions are distinct from the core tracker.

This project applies the same operational ideas found in my professional tooling to a personal problem: preserve history, make state visible and give the user a useful next action without requiring a spreadsheet to hold everything together.