Xptracker - A career helper & narrative platform

Hey all! I’m Roman, the founder of xptracker. :waving_hand:

The why.

xptracker started as a solution to my many job hunting woes: managing endless versions of identical resumes on Google Docs. Evidently I got so frustrated, that I decided to fix the problem for myself, and so the first iteration of xptracker’s core feature was born on my portfolio site – sadly now offline. Finding the first version lacking I got together with some friends to work on a proper implementation and that’s how xptracker came about. The core feature being a labeling system that lets you categorize each component of your resume. Enter your data in only once and then simply filter it for the relevant parts. The next time you go to apply to a job, select the relevant labels, download that filtered version of your resume, and apply. Done.

Core Feature

See it in action.

At it’s core, that is what xptracker is. A labeling and resume filtering app. Since then, however, we’ve been hard at work creating tools to further simplify job hunting. Including things like a career journal, job application tracking board, and currently in the works, a job matching system that will automatically recommend you job listings based on your skillsets (thanks to those nifty little labels).

Where does the ATProtocol come in?

The question we’re all waiting for! We have many ideas on how to integrate with the atprotocol, but are waiting on implementing most of them until private content is supported. In the meantime, here’s what we’re interested in: posting our dataset of job listings (that we continue to update daily) to the firehose. Here’s a viewer for it. It’s public data that we aggregate and categorize, and then upload for everyone to use freely. Ideally in the future, there will be a community agreed-upon standard, but in the meantime we do host our own lexicons here: app.xptracker.job.listing

Oh, and can’t forget to mention, you can also currently login using your handle.

Ethos

There’s a few things I’d like to personally point out here. Our app aims to be a positive contribution to you and your data. What I mean by that is, we fully believe your data is yours and we are only here to help you work ith it. You can export everything off our platform at anytime (it’s inherently part of the filter and download functionality after all). Part of integrating our app with the ATProtocol (when privacy becomes a standard) will be to further help facilitate moving your data around freely. We are just here to help you in the ways that we know how. We’re not here to gate-keep our list of job listings, nor to lock you in to yet another walled off garden. The other devs and I worked on this post to touch on this subject after we all agreed to work on a path towards ATProto integration.

So glad to be here as I catch up on all the cool tools that already exist on the protocol!

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