Applying to 15-20 jobs a week and losing track of which ones I'd heard back from, which ghosted, which needed follow-ups. Spreadsheet died in week 3 like every spreadsheet I've ever made.
Set up an ai on whatsapp via emergent to watch my gmail. Every "thank you for applying" auto-adds to a google sheet with: company, role, date applied, job description (pulled from the email or the linked posting), status.
After 7 days of no reply, it drafts a follow-up email and pings me on whatsapp to approve. One tap, sent.
The unlock was the follow-ups. I was never going to manually follow up on 80+ applications. Hhahahaha.