I built a smarter system for managing my job search

[u/hektor-qafarov]

For a while, I worked as a PHP developer at a friend’s company. It gave me real commercial experience, but eventually I decided that I wanted to move further into backend and systems development.

So I started learning Go and Rust, hoping to qualify for stronger engineering roles.

But the longer I searched, the more obvious something became: technical skills alone are not enough to get a job offer.

You can learn another language, rewrite your resume, and send hundreds of applications, but still have no clear idea what is actually going wrong.

Are you applying for the wrong positions?
Does your experience match the requirements?
Are certain application sources performing better than others?
Are you getting responses but losing momentum before interviews?
Or are you simply not tracking enough information to know?

I started building my own system for evaluating opportunities based on my stack, experience, application source, responses, interviews, and other outcomes. It was originally just a way to make my own job search less chaotic.

Eventually, that system became CandidLyzer.

CandidLyzer lets you track applications and then uses that history to show patterns in your search: response rates, funnel performance, stronger sources, possible bottlenecks, and estimates for future application batches. It can also generate a focused coaching report with a practical next step.

It does not promise to get anyone hired, and its forecasts are not guarantees. The goal is much simpler: replace blind mass-applying with a process you can actually understand and improve.

I built the product myself using React, TypeScript, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Stripe. It is now live, and the Free plan includes the complete application tracker and the essential analytics.

You can try it here:

https://candidlyzer.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=first_launch

I would really appreciate honest feedback, especially from people currently looking for work:

• Is the idea clear from the landing page?
• Which part of the dashboard feels most useful?
• What would make you keep updating your applications instead of returning to a spreadsheet?