LinkedIn JobLens AI
Stop drowning in job tabs. Start landing interviews. Or at least, that's the general idea.
How LinkedIn JobLens AI Escaped The Idea Graveyard
Another late-night coding session resulted in this monstrosity. It's a Chrome extension that uses AI to summarize LinkedIn job descriptions because reading is hard. It also cleans up your feed by remembering which jobs you've already dismissed. It probably shouldn't exist, but here we are.
Genesis Spark
Born out of repeated pain points and the refusal to accept mediocre tooling any longer.
The first proof-of-concept was duct-taped together in under 48 hours. It broke. A lot. But the core loop felt magical enough to justify polishing instead of abandoning. That was the moment it graduated from "random script" to "this might become real".
Core Problem & Insight
Beneath the jokes sits a very real friction: people kept wrestling with inefficient, boring, or psychologically draining workflows. That emotional tax became the design compass.
Known Chaos
- Wrangling LinkedIn's ever-shifting DOM without losing my sanity.
- Making an AI that's actually helpful and not just a fancy lorem ipsum generator.
- Caching data across devices without accidentally setting my server on fire.
Solutions
- Giving up and just rewriting the selectors every time LinkedIn pushes an update.
- A carefully crafted prompt that threatens the AI with deletion if it doesn't behave.
- Using browser sync storage and hoping for the best. What could go wrong?
Architecture Philosophy
Pragmatic modularity over premature perfection. Each subsystem is isolated enough to be refactored ruthlessly, but integrated just enough to keep velocity absurdly high.
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Screenshots That Don't Lie
Visual proof that this thing actually works
Ready to Experience the Magic?
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