Sorry if this isn’t allowed, I wasn’t sure where I could post this. Thought this community would appreciate it the most.

Anyways, I built an extension for FF while I’m applying to jobs. I noticed when applying at the same company again, the applications were basically the same and asking the same questions. So I built the extension that will auto save the data submitted to the application to reference when seeing the same question again later.

It is still a WIP, it will recognize the application platform/page about 80% of the time and save on submittal, and if its not confident enough for auto-save there is a manual save option as well. There are some rough edges where the fields may not be saved correctly or bugs like that, but I’m at a point where I’d love for some others to test it out and get a better idea of what platforms are being missed or fields, etc.

So if you are job hunting, or know someone that is, please check out AnswerHoard and let me know what you think!

Couple concerns out the gate:

• privacy: everything is saved ONLY on your browser. I don’t get any of it unless you share it with me with your feedback.
• permissions: turns out it’s a pain in the ass to try to recognize a job application page. Everyone does it differently, with different URLs, multi-page, SPA, in-frame, etc. So as of now the extension runs on every page to detect if it is an application submission page or not. Again, I don’t get ANY data from the pages you view/data you submit. You can read the privacy policy here
• if you’d like to report pages that were not detected, detected but not saved, saved but the fields are wrong, please feel free to submit an issue here

Thanks to anyone who checks it out! Sorry again mods if this is not allowed

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