Dev builds AI job-search app for his wife, she lands a job, and he open-sources it
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-28
A developer built Dossier, a self-hosted job-search app for his junior-engineer wife after her search dragged on for 10 months — she landed a job with it, and he open-sourced the project (1.6k GitHub stars).
Key features:
- Finds postings via JSearch (LinkedIn, Indeed and more), Adzuna, or Germany's Arbeitsagentur, or paste one in
- Writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email per job using only facts from your profile; refine drafts in chat and export as PDFs (12 resume themes)
- Tracks every application from draft to offer on a board with a dashboard
- Runs on your own server; the AI can be a local model via Ollama or Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, keeping your data private
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