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How I created the talently: a tiny hiring assistant to find App Developers in a tap.

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This story covers why and how I created a hiring Chrome extension for myself, finally.

Talently is tiny free web-based online tool by Upstaff to find and connect with relevant software app developers in minutes by analyzing content directly in your browser, available on any webpage—such as job postings on platforms like Indeed, Wellfound, Upwork, Reddit Jobs, or X Jobs, drafts in Google Docs, PDFs on Google Drive, or highlighted text.

I took   Upstaff.com ( Hire Developers App DB API) as a first source of data, and plan to extend more. A dataset of about 3K developer profiles with project histories, work records, and reviews was OK to start with. It’s not that large from bigdata perspective, but covers most of typical job request on the other hand. That became the backbone for talently. I’m thinking about integrating other sources to expand it, too. At the moment, If I can’t find a relevant candidate, I can always reach out to   upstaff.com for help—they’ll step in and find more options.

Tech Stack and why a Chrome Extension

The idea of building a helper that proactively searches for developers—without registration, waiting, fees, or those AI-tweaked resumes—really got me. So where do we spend most of our time these days if not in a web browser? I think Chrome Extensions have huge potential, especially now that Chrome’s rolling out stuff like Gemini Nano in dev versions.

I honestly think most SaaS tools should have browser extensions as a natural extension of their products—being closer and more convenient for users makes a huge difference. Making it a Chrome Extension felt like a no-brainer with the following stack:

Front-End: Manifest V3, JavaScript,   Vue.js (Vue 3), Google API, SCSS, Vuetify, Vite

Back-End: Python/Django, ElasticSearch.