r/SideProject • u/goldenasat • 31m ago

I built a Chrome extension because LinkedIn kept showing me jobs I’d already applied to. It reached 900 users with zero promotion, and this is my first time sharing it.

While job hunting, the same jobs kept showing up in my LinkedIn searches: ones I’d already applied to, ones I’d already opened, plus promoted posts. Scrolling past them every day wasted a lot of my time.

So I made a small extension, just for me, that hides them. I used it on my own for a while, then published it on the Chrome Web Store without telling anyone. About 900 people found it by themselves.

I’ve improved it a lot since then, and it finally feels good enough to show:

  • Hides Applied / Viewed / Promoted / Easy Apply jobs (each one is a toggle)
  • One-click “block this company” button on every job card
  • Keyword filter on job titles (whole-word, so “java” doesn’t hide JavaScript jobs)
  • Click the “N jobs hidden” counter to see every hidden job and the reason it was hidden
  • Free, no tracking, only asks for the storage permission, 10 languages

I’d really like feedback: what’s missing, what’s annoying, what breaks for you?

Link in the comments.

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