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JobTrace
A self-hosted tracker that watches company career pages, scores new openings against your resume and sends Telegram alerts.
Last push 2026-10-22 (gh api), the day of its Show HN. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Job search tools
Where it stands apart
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? public ATS job-board APIs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) (11% of 19 others)
- Which part of the job search is it mainly for? finding or vetting listings (25% of 20 others)
- Where do its job listings mainly come from? employers' own career pages or ATS feeds (16% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (85% of 20 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (53% of 19 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (50% of 20 others)
- Who is it for? developers (50% of 20 others)
- Does it submit job applications on the user's behalf? no, it does not fill or submit applications (55% of 20 others)
- How does the maker present automated applying (which many employers dislike)? does not address it (55% of 20 others)
- Does it read or act on LinkedIn automatically (LinkedIn's terms forbid bots)? no (72% of 18 others)
- Is it for tech jobs specifically? any kind of job (63% of 19 others)
- How do users pay? free (no paid option) (63% of 19 others)
Nearest neighbors
- HN Who's Hiring ranker (hn_whos_hiring) 65% of 17 shared answers match
- ResuMorph 65% of 17 shared answers match
- Keel 62% of 13 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes Docker; an offline matcher needs no key or cloud. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart public ATS job-board APIs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) Reads Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and Workday portals. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which part of the job search is it mainly for? | stands apart finding or vetting listings Despite the name, it mainly finds and scores new openings. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it submit job applications on the user's behalf? | no, it does not fill or submit applications | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does the maker present automated applying (which many employers dislike)? | does not address it | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do its job listings mainly come from? | stands apart employers' own career pages or ATS feeds | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it read or act on LinkedIn automatically (LinkedIn's terms forbid bots)? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
| By default, where does the user's resume and profile data go? | the user keeps it, but it's sent to an AI provider for processing Resume stays local; sent to an LLM only if you choose LLM scoring. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who runs and pays for the AI? | the user's own key, subscription, or local model Pluggable: OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama and others, or the offline matcher. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does the maker promise the AI will not invent experience or answers? | not applicable (it doesn't write on the user's behalf) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is it for tech jobs specifically? | any kind of job The README names no job field and reads general ATS portals. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How do users pay? | free (no paid option) | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
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- GitHub · github.com/mr-anjaneyam/JobTrace · read 2026-10-25
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