A job-application tracker built around one question — what should I do next? — with a second lens for learning from each finished hunt to run the next one better. It's a workflow driver first, not a spreadsheet replacement.
Live demo: https://faros-iota.vercel.app
Early days, and intentionally moving at a side-project pace. I'm not on this full-time. I'm also studying AWS and DSA. I use Faros as a hands-on way to practice and stretch across the whole stack: frontend, UI/UX, backend, and working effectively with AI tooling. The priority is quality and learning depth over shipping speed
I started it while job-hunting, which put me on both sides at once — the developer and the target user, a useful spot for discovering real needs and use cases instead of guessing at them.
On the design side, the UI draws heavy inspiration from the macOS design language and Resend's interface.
- Job Hunts — group applications into one active session at a time; ended hunts stay reviewable.
- Tracker Board — a Kanban board with fixed, action-oriented columns (Applied => Active => Final Stages => Closed) and configurable sub-stages.
- Resumes — first-class CV entities: a reusable library plus one-off, application-scoped versions.
- Activity log & Retro — every change is logged and becomes the source of truth for a per-hunt retrospective (funnel, time stats, source and resume performance).
- Notifications — one rule engine driving both condition-based prompts ("idle 14 days") and time-based reminders ("interview in 3 days"), delivered in-app and by email digest.
Next.js (App Router) · Neon Postgres + Drizzle ORM · Better Auth · TailwindCSS + shadcn · next-intl · Inngest · Resend · deployed on Vercel.
Full rationale and the alternatives considered live in docs/tech-stack.md.
- CONTEXT.md: domain glossary; the vocabulary used across the app.
- docs/high-level-design.md: full product design and v1 scope.
- docs/tech-stack.md: stack choices and decision log.
- docs/screens.md — UI surfaces and screen breakdown.
- docs/adr/ — architecture decision records.
- AGENTS.md — dev commands, conventions, etc.