Find and manage Hacker News fractional jobs

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Find and manage Hacker News fractional jobs

Hi HN, I love all sorts of flexible jobs, whether it's freelancing, part-time, fractional, or whatever we call it. I have strong reasoning behind it, but that's another story for another time. One of the best places to find these types of works is HackerNews. But it's hard to keep track of the applications or skip the ones you don't like and return the next day to continue. There are some nice works done to solve this but a) they focus on full-time jobs, and b) they don't allow you to sync your data on multiple devices. Essentially, there's no lightweight CRM-like solution for freelancers/consultants to manage their job applications unless it's offered by the job listing websites. I managed to find a great part-time job in HN by following this strategy: Fetched the past 3 months of whoishiring submissions, loaded them into a database, and divided them into two priorities: 1. Freelance jobs, posted under "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" with "SEEKING FREELANCER" title. 2. Part-time or contract jobs, posted under "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" with specific keywords (part-time, consultant, contractor, etc.) and without "no contract(s)". I reviewed the first priority, either applied or skipped, and marked their status accordingly, then moved on to the second priority. Now, I turned this into a small web app, built using Django, HTMX, and Postgres all running on a single DigitalOcean VM. You don't need to sign up, just click on "Login as Guest" to start using the app. Or watch the video on the about[1] page. This is my first Show HN post, would love to hear your feedback. Thanks! [1] https://fraction.works/about