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SMF·CAREERFLOW
Received on
31.07.2026
Reviewed on
28.09.2026
Exhibits annexed
3
Questions
4

SMF·CAREERFLOW

Can a prompt replace Careerflow?

Résumés & job search — job capture extension + application tracker

Almost Verdict recorded on 28.09.2026 · Verified on 31.07.2026
Price
$23.99/moSource: www.careerflow.ai · Checked on July 31, 2026
Per year
$287.88
Build time
A weekend
Votes
0 votes
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Exhibit tracking slip

Exhibit A The prompt
Exhibit B What you lose
Exhibit C Why people still pay: browser extension coverage
Exhibit Q Questions

Verdict

The tracker behind Careerflow is a small database and a board, and a personal version is a weekend. What is not a weekend is the part people actually pay for: an extension that recognises the posting layout of hundreds of job boards and applicant tracking systems, and fills their forms. A home-made extension covers the three or four sites you personally use and breaks whenever one of them ships a redesign.

Exhibit B — What you lose

Exhibit A — The prompt

Received on31.07.2026
Build a personal job-application tracker with two halves.

The first half is a browser extension with one button. On a job posting, it extracts title, company, location, salary if present, the posting URL and the full description text, and POSTs them to a local server. Extraction rules live in a plain JSON file — one entry per hostname, each holding CSS selectors for the fields — plus a generic fallback that reads JSON-LD `JobPosting` structured data, which a surprising number of boards publish. When neither works, the extension stores the raw page text and marks the record `needs-review` rather than saving empty fields.

The second half is a local web app over SQLite: a board with the stages applied, screening, interview, offer and closed; a card per application; and a notes field. Stage changes are stored as dated events, not as a mutable column, so the board can answer "how long did I sit in screening at each company" without extra bookkeeping. Add a follow-up view listing every application with no event for N days.

Optionally, with an LLM API key, add one action: paste your resume once, and for a selected posting produce a bullet-by-bullet rewrite suggestion with the original text shown alongside. Never rewrite the stored resume automatically — output a diff a human accepts or rejects.

Do not build form autofill for arbitrary application forms. Filling somebody else's multi-page ATS reliably is the vendor's whole product, and a half-working autofill that silently submits a wrong field is worse than typing.

Opening prefills the prompt — press enter to run it.

Exhibit B — What you lose

  • B.1 form autofill across hundreds of applicant tracking systems
  • B.2 posting extraction that keeps working when a job board redesigns
  • B.3 LinkedIn profile scoring against a large sample of profiles
  • B.4 mock interview practice with recorded feedback
  • B.5 the mobile app

Prior art

Exhibit C — Why people still pay: browser extension coverage

Applying to fifty jobs means retyping the same twelve fields fifty times, and Careerflow removes that specific hour of tedium on sites you did not have to configure first.

Questions

Can I import the applications I already tracked in Careerflow?

Careerflow exports your job list as CSV, and the importer for this build is a short script: map the columns to title, company, URL, stage and date, and insert one stage event per row. What does not survive is per-posting extension metadata, because it never existed outside their extension.

Will the extension keep working?

For the boards you wrote selectors for, until they change their markup — usually months, sometimes weeks. The JSON-LD fallback is far more stable, so prefer boards that publish structured data. This is the honest running cost of the DIY version: about ten minutes of selector maintenance whenever a site you use redesigns.

What does it cost to run?

Nothing beyond your own machine if you keep it local. The LLM rewrite step costs a fraction of a cent per posting, so a hundred tailored applications is well under a dollar.

What is the one thing that does not survive the rebuild?

Applying to a job you found in the wild without configuring anything first. Careerflow works on sites you have never visited; your version works on sites you taught it about.

Receipt

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