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jlifeng/jobpilot

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TLDR

Local-first AI desktop app for writing, polishing, and translating resumes plus practising interviews, packaged as a Tauri native app.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((JobPilot))
    Inputs
      PDF resume
      Markdown text
      Job description
      Image scan
    Outputs
      PDF export
      PNG export
      Word export
      Shareable link
    Use Cases
      Build resume
      Rewrite content
      Score vs JD
      Draft cover letter
    Tech Stack
      Next.js
      Tauri
      React
      Vercel AI SDK

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Generate and polish a resume locally without sending data to a server

USE CASE 2

Score an existing resume against a job description with AI feedback

USE CASE 3

Draft cover letters and translate resume text between Chinese and English

USE CASE 4

Run mock interview practice on a Mac or Windows desktop

Tech stack

Next.jsReactTauriTypeScriptTailwindshadcn/uiZustand

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Building from source needs Node 20, pnpm 9, a Rust toolchain, and Tauri 2 tooling; prebuilt installers are Windows-only with macOS still in progress.

Apache 2.0 lets you use, modify, and redistribute the code commercially as long as you preserve attribution and the license notice.

In plain English

JobPilot is a local-first AI job-hunting desktop app, mainly aimed at Chinese-speaking job seekers. The README describes it as a workstation that walks you through writing and polishing a resume, then practising for interviews, all on your own machine without needing to set up any server. You download an installer from GitHub Releases, double-click, and it runs. The original feature set, inherited from two earlier projects called JadeAI and RoleRover, covers the resume side of things. There is a drag-and-drop editor with inline editing and auto-save, more than 50 templates in styles like classic, modern, minimal, and "ATS-friendly" (meaning formats that automated recruiting systems can parse), and an AI assistant that can generate a resume, rewrite content, score it against a job description, draft cover letters, and translate or polish text. Existing resumes can be parsed from PDF or image files. Output can be exported to PDF, PNG, or Word, and you can also generate a shareable link or an AI-made LinkedIn-style headshot. Interface text is available in both Chinese and English. The JobPilot fork adds a Tauri-based native desktop wrapper, which the README says is lighter and faster than a typical web-shell desktop app and includes Apple Silicon Mac support in addition to Windows. Import now handles JSON, Markdown, PDF, and images (PNG, JPG, WebP), with scanned PDFs and image files routed through a multimodal model for parsing. There is a new Markdown editor with a toolbar for bold, italic, code, lists, and links, and a multi-line text-area component meant for long fields like work history. The app can check for and install its own updates and lets you refresh the list of available AI models manually. Planned next are LinkedIn-style certificate photos and resume version history with comparison and rollback. To build from source you need Node.js 20 or newer, pnpm 9, a stable Rust toolchain, and the Tauri 2 Windows tooling. The technology stack is Next.js 16 with React 19, Tauri 2, TypeScript 5, Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui components, Zustand for state, and the Vercel AI SDK for model calls. The project is released under Apache 2.0 and credits JadeAI and RoleRover as the upstream codebases. Installers are currently Windows only, with a macOS build listed as in progress.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through installing JobPilot on Apple Silicon and getting a first resume rendered
Prompt 2
Show me how to wire JobPilot to a local Ollama model via the Vercel AI SDK config
Prompt 3
Build a Tauri 2 plus Next.js 16 starter that mirrors JobPilot's auto-update flow
Prompt 4
Add a new resume template to JobPilot in the ATS-friendly style and register it in the picker
Prompt 5
Port JobPilot's PDF and image resume parser into a standalone Node.js library
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