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Jonathan Ruiz

Huntr - A Kanban board for your job applications

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Ground control for your job search. Huntr keeps track of every detail about your job opportunities - notes, dates, tasks, job descriptions, salaries, locations, company data and more.

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JoeLischka
Interesting, but why not just use trello and create a job applications board there? Maybe I missed something here that makes Huntr better?
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@joelischka Thanks for your question. For now the key differences are the job focused modelling of the card, the ability to pre populate company data, and our Chrome extension, where you can add a ton of job related information when creating a new entry, as opposed to just a card title and description. The focus for the next few months is to make this job specific feature list even bigger.
Edin Vejzovic
@joelischka You can write it on paper too, scrible it on a wall, write it with chalkboard, all of those are options dude. It's about focus.
Duksh
@rennie_haylock it would be nice if you could have a section/feature for storing Resumes in HTML or PDF and/or job hunt card related attachments
JoeLischka
@edinvejzovic You're right of course, but Huntr looks and feels a lot like Trello. :)
Barton Smith
@joelischka @edinvejzovic True, but if I was looking for a job right now, I would use this over Trello. In the same way I'd buy one specific pair of headphones over another :)
Rennie Haylock
Maker
Hello Product Hunt! Rennie from Huntr here. A bit over a year ago I found myself back in the job market, applying to quite a few positions; enough to make it hard to keep up with. I ended up using a mix of email, calendars, and Trello to keep track of it all. It was a frustrating process. This is where the idea for Huntr was born, to build a dedicated tool for visualizing, tracking, and managing your job search. There’s many project management tools out there, but most need to be ‘hacked’ into a job search template or model, the idea behind Huntr is to offer all those things baked in; from pre populating company details to offering a Chrome extension to collect jobs from any site on the web. Thanks for the support! Would love to hear your feedback.
tom meagher
If you want to find a career/job you love, it's important to be organized! (Finding a job is basically a job itself.) Usually people hack something with Trello, Google Sheets, etc. but you spend a lot of time formatting and adding contextual information. Huntr has the kanban-style layout of Trello (which is a great metaphor for the job hunt) AND automatically brings in relevant information for you (think company facts/info). The design is top-notch too. What's the long term game for Huntr? P.S. Check out the map view. It's my favorite.
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@tomfme Thanks for your comment! The main focus will always be to help users find a job. There's a lot of stages and actions we go through when looking for jobs. This version of Huntr is great at the organization stage, but there's so much more including discovery, communication, preparation, visibility on the state of a submitted application, etc. I feel the more of those we can cover, the stronger the product becomes.
João Santos
This is so great! As a past job hunter, I wish I had this to manage my applications. I've used Google Sheets to keep a record of every job post I applied (that went to +700 applications in 3 months), and Gmail labels to keep up with applications. But often I got lost in the middle. Some features that I suggest: - Ability to quickly search for job applications - I had +700 applications with a 20% return on phone interviews. When I got a call from an interviewer they often ask if I recall my application & job requirements (which I would always say "YES!" even if I have no idea what they are talking about). In case the interviewer wanted to do a quick phone interview right away, I needed to jump to my computer and find the job application, give it a quick read while I was on the phone. With Huntr and a feature to quickly search for company or job title, it would be way easier. - Ability to add companies out of your Database - by connecting LinkedIn (or any other source) you should be able to add companies that don't show up on your database. - Ability to add attachments - resumes sent, email conversations, etc Despite I'm happily employed I'm looking forward to using Huntr on my next job hunting!
Drew Shah
I like this
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@drewshah1234 Thanks for the support Drew!
Robert Simoes
Amazing! Beautiful too! Out of curiosity what is the tech stack behind it?
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@robertsimoes Thanks! The stack is React/Redux in the front end, Node/Express/Mongo in the backend
Grzegorz Hadała
Legend. Very useful :)
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@greghadala Thanks!
Houssein Djirdeh
This is a great idea and I love the design feel, great work!
Angie

User Huntr for the first time today and I love how the job applications can be categorised in applied, interview etc. An added bonus is that the company name added automatically generates additional information including a logo of the company. This is a keeper and would gladly recommend this to other job seekers.

Pros:

Great visualisation of your job applications

Cons:

No cons so far

Marek Dlugos
Awesome!
Tolu Olubode
Interesting, I'd used Trello for my last job hunt as a college student. The ability to pre-populate really catches my eye. It'd be nice to able to import my Trello board into this. Will recommend to my colleagues, we could use some organisation :)
Omer Molad
Nice to see someone helping jobseekers. Well done, the UI is nice. Is it intended to be / stay a free tool?
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@omermolad Thanks! Yes, the intention is for the current feature set to stay free :)
Karthik Menta
What's the purpose behind the map?
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@karthikmenta Good question! Once you're far enough in the process with a few positions, location is a huge determinant in what offer to accept, so if you are considering 5 or 10 positions in California, it's important to know if those are in Mountain View, Downtown San Franciso, or Oakland; depending on your living/transportation situation some of these will be more attractive than others, with the map you'll be able to make an informed choice.
Premkumar Sriram

Simple and colorful user interface. Especially the tasks features are great and really useful. But the popup while adding a job and tabs on the left and difficult to use, intead it would have been the top which is easy to click.

Pros:

Easy to use and less complex

Cons:

Popup with Tabs on left is difficult to navigate.

Amazingandyyy
Rennie, you are amazing! I just connect you on LinkedIn, hope you can accept it. Your work is really amazing.
Rennie Haylock
Maker
@andy_chen Thanks Andy!
Rafael De Armas
I really like this tool. I have been in the position of finding a job and I know how hard is to keep yourself organize with other tools. Great job! Love it!!
Matthew Quinn
This is amazing!
Martin Zhang
Interesting product! Keen to see where you guys go over the coming months :)
Gustav Larsson
Great work on the design, very clean and colorful!