I Built a "Command Center" for My Job Hunt Because Spreadsheets Are Where Dreams Go to Die

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This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge

What I Built

I built Jhella, a terminal-based "Command Center" for developers who are officially done with messy job-hunt spreadsheets.

We’ve all been there: 47 LinkedIn tabs open, a flooded inbox, and a spreadsheet named Job_Hunt_Final_v3_REAL_THIS_TIME.xlsx that is a total disaster by week two. I got tired of tracking my high-tech career in a low-tech table, so I built a tool that lives where I do: the terminal. Jhella lets me log applications, auto-convert salary shorthand (like typing $120k and having it actually save as $120,000), and get visual ⚠️ alerts if I haven't followed up on an application in 7 days.

Demo

You can try Jhella right now without even installing it:
npx jobhunt-ella-cli

NPM Package: jobhunt-ella-cli
GitHub Repository: Jhella Source Code

📸 Screenshots

The view I check every morning to make sure I'm not getting ghosted.	The step-by-step way I add new job leads.
I type $150k and Jhella actually knows what I mean.	A little motivation, seeing the 'Potential Max' salary helps on the tough days.

My Experience with GitHub Copilot CLI

GitHub Copilot CLI was basically my pair programmer for this whole build. Here’s how it actually helped:

No more Tab-Switching: I used gh copilot explain whenever I got confused by commander.js or inquirer. It saved me from constant context-switching between my code and documentation.
Regex without the Headache: Honestly, I probably would have spent hours fighting with Regex patterns for the salary parser if I hadn't just asked Copilot CLI to help me generate the logic for currency shorthand.
Fixing my NPM drama: When I hit a 403 Forbidden error trying to publish my first package, I used the CLI to troubleshoot my 2FA and auth settings without ever leaving the terminal.

Instead of getting stuck on CLI boilerplate, Copilot CLI let me focus on making Jhella actually useful for my job hunt.