What is byojb?

BYOJB, short for Build Your Own Job Board, is a personal tool for running your own job search instead of relying on job sites. You install it on your own computer and it becomes a private system that scans company career pages, uses AI to sort and rank the postings it finds, and gives you a dashboard where you can review everything and track your applications. The daily routine starts with a scanner that checks target companies for new job postings without using any AI, so it costs nothing to run often. After that, an AI step reads each posting and gives it a quick fit score based on your background and preferences, and a deeper research step pulls out details like required skills, remote policy, and salary. You look at the results in a local web dashboard, where sliders let you change how much weight the tool gives to things like tech stack, timezone, pay, or work life balance, and the list re-sorts instantly without calling the AI again. There is also a Chrome extension that can be loaded into the browser to automatically fill out application forms on company career sites using your profile information, and it reports back to the dashboard once you submit an application, so your tracking stays up to date. Beyond job postings, the tool can research companies themselves, searching for ones that match your criteria, checking them against your personal fit rules, and building a short dossier before it adds their careers pages to the list it scans regularly. Setting it up requires Node.js and Playwright, and you fill in your own profile and scoring preferences using template configuration files before running it. A Python setup is optional and only needed for a feature that pulls listings from broad job boards like LinkedIn or Indeed. This is aimed at someone doing an active job search who wants more control and organization than a spreadsheet or standard job board provides, and who is comfortable running command line tools and editing configuration files on their own machine.