DEV Community: Saikat Chakrabortty

I kept forgetting what I actually told companies… so I built this

Saikat Chakrabortty — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 13:52:29 +0000

You know that feeling?
You apply to a bunch of jobs over a couple of weeks.

Some Greenhouse, some Workday, a few LinkedIn Easy Apply, maybe Naukri.
You tweak the resume a little for each one. Hoping to get past the ATS, You write different “why us?” answers.
Then three weeks later an interview invite lands… and you have no idea which version of the story you sent them.

I got tired of digging through browser history, email drafts, and half-remembered messy spreadsheets and manually managing them.

So I made a small Chrome extension that just quietly records everything while you apply:

the full job posting (even after it disappears)
the exact answers you typed
the exact PDF resume you uploaded

Nothing more, nothing less.

It doesn’t fill forms for you.
It doesn’t submit anything.
It doesn’t browse job sites on its own.
It just watches while you apply and keeps a clean record.

Later you can open any application and see exactly what you said, which resume went with it, and the original job description.

Everything stays encrypted on your computer and on the cloud.

I’m not trying to build the next big AI job-hunting platform.

I just wanted something that felt honest and useful for people who are actually in the middle of a job search.

If you’re currently applying (or about to start), I’d love it if a few of you tried it and told me what feels off or missing.

→ Add to Chrome or Brave (it’s free)
→ Site: 1job.app

Just if it sounds like it might help you too.
And share - what do you think of this. any feedbacks.

Thanks for reading 🙏

Share Your Scaling Experience

Saikat Chakrabortty — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:43:38 +0000

We all someday in our career thought or at least initiated some action towards scaling an application.
Would you like to tell everyone what's your biggest achievement in terms of scaling applications?

For me:

There is not many, and in my short 4Yrs of career, I have managed to store Timeseries Data on mongo in such a way(precalculated), which would help eventually to retrieve the data easily, and the APIs would take from few seconds,
minutes to some ms or similar.

What's your story?

lots of interview without success

Saikat Chakrabortty — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:38:08 +0000

So its been almost more than 8 months, i'm searching and interviewing , stopping again to look back and again start. in the loop.
interviewing with no success at all. sometimes i can make it up-to the last round too.

my expectation always is like:

good team where people interacts and active & eager to help each other.
nice & advance tech stack, where people just not make apis or small functions, but solve some challenging problems.
an open culture is followed.

Issue i face 90% of the time, or the cause of the rejection is:

as i'm working more than 2 years in using Node Js stack.
most of the companies prefer someone who have experience with how to deal with scaling issues. [its even expected in general]

But as i've never been to those situation & having no such experience, all i can do is just study on those, and i believe its a kind of experience by only studying you can never be aware of real world problems, and people gonna ask about the real problem only.
also in other hand, this type of source are very limited, so without hands on experience on this type of topics, its not much possible to have a clear knowledge which they want ,i guess.

There is lot more issues are there like this.
and i can say there are lot of people who are facing this type of situation like me only.

just seeking some advice,
let me know your thoughts/tips anything on this
will be really helpful.