You're (not) Cooked

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Inspiration

As many computer science and software students attempt to find internships, the hunt for work has never been more difficult. For this reason we thought to ourselves: what if we could make the job-finding process more enjoyable?

What it does

"You're not Cooked" is a web application with the purpose of "gameifying" the job hunting process. Users can register their job applications or remove them and to which company, and the app computes a score based on which job applications are worth more points than other (Applied, Rejected, Offer). The app also provides stats on the user's job searching capabilities (such as the number of applications for a role in the whole user base) and represents users through a leaderboard system.

How we built it

We built the front end using React (with TailwindCSS) and used Java for the back-end interacting with postgreSQL database in a Spring framework.

Challenges we ran into

Accessing the right information. Occasionally, the application required us to implement very obscure behavior that may be hard to find on the internet. In addition, setting up a remote database was challenging, and we were all working with technology we were not familiar with. For example, some of us were working with front end for the first time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are mostly proud of our front end. For some of us it was our first time using React and Next.js.

What we learned

On a technical level, we learned new front-end, framework, and database technologies that are useful in modern software engineering. By extensive research and testing, we were able to build a proper application that could see uses from many other people of our age. We also learned about how important every member is in a software project, and how complex making an application from scratch really is.