🚀 Building an AI Personal Assistant App

Asad Nawaz — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:49:06 +0000

Imagine having an assistant that doesn’t just chat… it actually does tasks for you.
Examples:
• “Email the client about tomorrow’s meeting” → AI drafts & sends it
• “Schedule a meeting with the team Friday at 3 PM” → AI sets it up
• Generate proposals, agreements, and professional emails
• Organize tasks and execute them automatically
You simply tell the assistant what to do — it handles the rest.
Would you use something like this?
👇 Vote honestly

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ApplyFlow: The Job Search Command Center I Wish I Had Earlier

Asad Nawaz — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:58:09 +0000

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community

The Community

I built this for a community I am part of myself: people applying to jobs at scale.

That includes:

students applying for internships
junior developers applying to their first roles
mid/senior professionals juggling multiple pipelines

The shared pain is not just “finding jobs.”

The real pain is tracking everything after applying.

Most people start with spreadsheets, notes, screenshots, and memory. It works for 5 applications. Maybe 10. But at 50+ or 100+, things break:

“Did I already apply here?”
“Which resume version did I send?”
“When was I supposed to follow up?”
“Why am I not improving after rejections?”

That gap is why I built ApplyFlow.

What I Built

ApplyFlow is a clean mobile app that helps people track applications, see patterns, and improve over time.

Core workflow

Add / edit / manage job applications
Group and track applications by status
View deadlines and upcoming follow-ups
Keep structured notes per application

Smart features that make it useful in real life

Weekly Goal System with progress tracking + auto weekly reset
Insights Engine that calculates:
- Interview rate
- Offer rate
- Most applied job type
- Most successful job type
- Average days to final outcome
- Resume-version success rate
Reflection System on rejection (“Reflect & Grow”)
Resume Version Tracking so users can measure what’s working
Finalized applications (Offer / Rejected) are read-only but still fully viewable in a details modal

Data ownership (important)

Export all applications as CSV
Export by month/year
Backup + import support
Easy copy actions for backup text
Restore data after reinstall/new phone

UX polish

Bottom navigation with icons
Light/Dark theme toggle
Pull-to-refresh
Custom in-app dialogs/modals
Cold-start splash flow
Clean, minimal, readable layout

Demo

Demo video & ScreenShots: [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tHfQQAFC9cVnviw8lDJwISRzop-ZajGO?usp=sharing]

Code

GitHub repo: https://github.com/AsadNawaz77/applyflow

How I Built It

Expo (Managed Workflow)
React Native + TypeScript
React Navigation (Stack + Bottom Tabs)
AsyncStorage for local persistence
Custom architecture with reusable components and a centralized useJobs() hook for:
- goal logic
- insights calculations
- deadlines filtering
- reflection updates
- backup/export flows

Why this matters

ApplyFlow is not trying to be another todo app.

It’s a focused tool for one stressful process: job hunting.

When people can track clearly, reflect honestly, and learn from their own data, they make better decisions and recover faster.

That is the outcome I wanted this app to create.

Forem: Asad Nawaz