I built Job Hunter because many serious job searches are not really one-shot searches.
If you are an experienced candidate, the hard part is often not seeing more job listings. The harder part is remembering which companies are worth tracking, which role titles are noisy, which openings were already reviewed, and which public hiring links are actually useful.
Job Hunter is an open-source, local-first Windows desktop workspace for job discovery and follow-up tracking.
It is designed for long-running specialist searches, especially cases where generic job-board feeds are not enough and the better route is to find company career pages, ATS links, and official application pages directly. That makes it a stronger fit for Europe / international searches, specialist roles, and domains where the same capability may appear under many different job titles.
What It Does
- Maintains local candidate profiles, target directions, search state, and result history.
- Helps define target role directions with AI.
- Discovers and verifies concrete job links.
- Scores and explains role fit.
- Writes strong role signals back into a reusable company pool.
- Lets the user track interested, applied, offer, rejected, and dropped states.
The main idea is that a good role should improve the next search round. If a company has a strong fit, the company becomes part of the future source set instead of being forgotten after one run.
Important Boundaries
This is free and open source, but AI calls are not free by default. Users provide their own OpenAI or compatible API key, so API usage may cost money.
It is also not an auto-apply bot. Job Hunter helps discover, evaluate, and organize leads. The user still decides what to submit.
The project is local-first: resumes, company pools, search results, SQLite data, exports, and runtime backups are meant to stay on the user's machine. The public repository contains source code, documentation, demo seeds, and safe example templates.
Try It
Repo:
https://github.com/liuyingxuvka/Job-Hunter
Latest Windows release:
https://github.com/liuyingxuvka/Job-Hunter/releases/latest
Feedback discussion:
https://github.com/liuyingxuvka/Job-Hunter/discussions/1
End users should download the Windows zip from GitHub Releases, extract it, and run Jobflow Desktop.exe. Developers can run it from source.
Feedback I Am Looking For
- Is "local-first job discovery workspace" a clear framing?
- Does the company-pool feedback loop make sense?
- Would this be useful for specialist or international job searches?
- What would make you hesitate: API cost, privacy, Windows install, search accuracy, or something else?
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