Loffrey

Did I apply there already? When did I apply there? How many places have I applied to? Has that place responded?

I built Loffrey, named after the Final Fantasy Tactics character, to answer these questions for myself. I have always used a Google Sheet to do this in the past and some years ago I thought "oh this could be an app!", and I finally put metaphorical pen to paper and made it. At the time of writing, there are still some issues I need to resolve, but it is in an MVP state.

In the future, I want to be able to parse job links, perhaps via Gemini, so that a User can just post a link and it will autofill data. This also allows for a browser extension and perhaps an email extension but that also opens the door for reading people's emails, which I'm unsure if I want to do.

Its been a fun little project, entirely built in Rails. One thing I have encountered is that leveraging shadcn is just not as intuitive or as nice to work with as it is in NextJS. Having to rebuild assets, which sometimes don't compile because they're cached, and then having to "clobber" things... it does make dev'ing a bit more tedious. But, all in all, a fun project.