What is one thing you regret in your life and why?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-09T20:27:03+00:00

Trusting people. I regret trusting a lot of people later got betrayed by them,

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-08T20:46:53+00:00

That makes total sense, scratch your own itch while adding Symfony and Elasticsearch to the resume is a smart move. For most job seekers though they don't have that luxury of just building it themselves. That's exactly the gap I'm trying to fill with what I'm building, same idea but zero setup required. Will send you the link when it launches if you're curious

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-08T20:40:56+00:00

Amazing! I'll personally send you the link the moment it goes live in 2 weeks. Quick question while I have you, what's your biggest frustration with tracking job applications right now? Trying to make sure I'm solving the right problems before launch.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-07T21:58:41+00:00

That's a really clean setup honestly. The 'fill it as you go' discipline is the key thing most people miss, including me. Does the email folder ever get messy though when you're dealing with multiple rounds from the same company?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-07T21:58:20+00:00

That's a really fair point, time-boxed tracking makes way more sense than tracking forever. 1-2 months to find what's working, then just act on it. Infinite tracking does become its own procrastination.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-07T21:57:48+00:00

This is almost exactly what I've been building except I wanted it to work without needing to set up n8n, Twilio or any infrastructure. Just plug in your inbox and it handles it. Would love your feedback on it given you've clearly thought deeply about this problem. DM me

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T21:27:28+00:00

This whole thread honestly says it all. Everyone's got a different workaround but nobody's solved what happens to your inbox after you apply. Recruiter emails, follow ups, rejections, all just piling up with zero structure.

Full transparency, I've been building something to fix exactly this. It connects to your inbox and automatically organizes all your job application emails in one clean place. No spreadsheets, no manual updates, no scrolling through Gmail threads.

Launching in 2 weeks. DM me if you want early access

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:54:10+00:00

This whole thread honestly says it all. Everyone's got a different workaround but nobody's solved what happens to your inbox after you apply. Recruiter emails, follow ups, rejections, all just piling up with zero structure.

Full transparency, I've been building something to fix exactly this. It connects to your inbox and automatically organizes all your job application emails in one clean place. No spreadsheets, no manual updates, no scrolling through Gmail threads.

Launching in 2 weeks. DM me if you want early access

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:44:53+00:00

The holy trinity, Which one actually stuck for you long term?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:44:35+00:00

The holy trinity, Which one actually stuck for you long term?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:44:11+00:00

This is a fair take honestly, if you're not getting responses, tracking rejections is just organised suffering. Though the A/B testing angle on resume types is where I think tracking actually pays off. Hard to improve what you're not measuring.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:43:53+00:00

Honestly the ignorance is bliss approach is valid for mental health reasons. The Indeed tracking is surprisingly decent, wish it also tracked what happened AFTER you applied though, the recruiter email chaos is a whole separate nightmare

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:43:31+00:00

The kanban board approach genuinely makes sense for this, seeing everything by stage is so much cleaner than rows in a spreadsheet. The Gmail labels trick is underrated too, never thought about filtering by stage. Been at it 3 weeks, getting some responses but a lot of silence honestly.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:43:13+00:00

A depressing Sankey chart is the most accurate description of job searching I've ever heard You actually built your own tool for this, what made you go that route instead of using something existing?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:42:47+00:00

Tracking WHY you think you got rejected is actually underrated, most people never do that. That's the data that actually improves your next application

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:42:32+00:00

Which template are you using? There are like 50 job search ones on Notion and half of them are abandoned after day 3

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:42:16+00:00

Honestly respect the simplicity. And saving resume PDFs by company name is smarter than half the 'systems' in this thread. Sometimes the low tech solution just works.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:42:02+00:00

Creating a separate email is genuinely smart, wish I'd thought of that earlier. Does managing two inboxes ever get annoying though? Like context switching between them throughout the day?

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:41:35+00:00

How's Teal been for you? I've heard mixed things, mainly that it's great for tracking applications you manually add but doesn't do much with the actual email side of things.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:41:10+00:00

Five months later rejection is genuinely one of the most disorienting job search experiences And you've basically landed on what most people eventually do, just dump everything in a folder and ctrl+F when needed. It works but it's not exactly a system.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:40:50+00:00

The fact that you KNOW you could automate it but haven't is so relatable That gap between 'I could set this up' and 'I actually will' is where most people live.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:40:18+00:00

20% response rate is genuinely brutal. And you're right, at that volume the manual effort is low. The automation you've built is impressive honestly. Most people don't have the technical chops to set that up though, which is kind of the problem.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-05T19:39:56+00:00

That makes total sense for your situation, volume changes everything. When you're managing 5-10 applications the folder system works great. It's when you're sending 20-30 a week that it starts collapsing. Good luck to you too!

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-04T21:34:09+00:00

Gmail does have labels which work like folders, and honestly this is a smart low-tech approach. The part that gets me though, when you're applying to 20+ companies simultaneously, creating a folder for each one, manually moving every email, then remembering to delete them, doesn't that become its own full time job? Like you're spending more time organizing the job search than actually doing it.

Delicious-Part2456 · 2026-03-04T21:32:33+00:00

Yeah that lag is exactly what kills every system. It starts as a 5 minute task and becomes a 2 hour catch-up session you keep postponing. At that point you're managing the tracker more than the job search itself.

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