Original Summary

I’ve been building a job application tool mostly because a lot of the jobs I apply to sit behind authentication, so normal scraping only gets you so far. My first version was mostly automation. Scraping and parsing the job pages worked surprisingly well. The bigger problem was actually the AI side. My prompts would occasionally hallucinate experience, make assumptions, or produce answers that sounded good but weren’t really grounded in my background. At the same time, I had a browser extension for applications I was doing manually. Eventually I switched the main workflow to the browser extension. I really didn’t want to maintain integrations for Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, random company career pages, etc. So I made the form handling generic instead. The extension looks at the page HTML, AI parses the form, and I keep a structured map of the fields. The rest of the application workflow operates against that map rather than knowing which ATS it’s running on. That has worked better than I expected. I also gradually backed away from “fully automatic applications.” The useful version for me became: job page → understand the role → assess fit → generate answers → review → fill I spent quite a lot of time improving the prompts and grounding. I’d rather the system say it doesn’t have enough evidence for an answer than confidently invent something. Resume generation became part of the problem too. For example, I have PHP experience going back around 10 years. But if I’m applying to a modern fintech/backend position, I don’t necessarily want a resume that makes me look primarily like a PHP developer just because there’s a lot of historical PHP experience in my background. I want it to understand what I’ve actually done, then emphasize the relevant parts for that particular role without rewriting my history. So the project slowly turned into: job parsing / fit assessment application question generation generic form detection + filling tailored resumes cover letters outreach manual review before filling/submitting I originally built most of this for myself, but I’ve cleaned it up enough now that I want to see how badly it breaks for other people :) It’s called Motiavated. I’m giving people the first 10 applications free right now. I’m mostly looking for feedback, especially from anyone applying through weird ATSs or company-specific application forms. I can put the link in the comments if anyone wants to try it.   submitted by   /u/mutasaki09 [link]   [comments]

中文概览

中文标题： 我开始自动化求职申请，结果做了一个通用浏览器扩展

作者为申请需登录的职位开发求职工具，最初偏自动化，但AI提示会幻觉经历，于是转向浏览器扩展。扩展读取页面HTML，由AI解析表单，并用结构化字段映射处理申请，不再为各ATS单独集成。工作流变为：解析职位、评估匹配、生成回答、人工审核、填写；也按职位定制简历和求职信。项目名为Motiavated，目前提供前10次申请免费，寻求反馈。

  • 情报分类：开源项目与落地
  • 分类依据：内容为作者自建求职申请自动化项目，含浏览器扩展与工作流落地，非单纯职位信息。
  • 信息来源：Reddit · SideProject
  • 发布时间：2026/9/13 19:50:45