Applywise
2026Track every application, auto-detect stale leads, receive email reminders, and analyse your job search with live charts.
Overview
Applywise is a full-stack, production-ready web application that solves a specific problem: job applications are easy to forget. The average job search involves dozens of applications across weeks or months. Without a system, leads go cold, follow-ups get missed, and it becomes impossible to understand what's actually working. Applywise gives you: - A single place to log every application - Automatic staleness detection — if you haven't touched a job in N days, it flags it - Daily email reminders for follow-ups you haven't sent - An analytics dashboard that computes your response rate, interview rate, and offer rate from real data
Challenges
Since ApplyWise was built using a monorepo architecture, both the frontend and backend were stored in the same repository. During deployment, Vercel tried to build the project from the root directory instead of the frontend folder. This caused issues because the required frontend configuration files, dependencies, and build scripts were located inside a subfolder. As a result, the deployment process failed or produced build errors.
Solutions
To solve this challenge, the frontend folder was configured as the Root Directory in Vercel. The correct install command, build command, and output directory were set according to the frontend framework. The backend was deployed separately, and the frontend connected to it through production environment variables. This approach allowed Vercel to build only the frontend application and made the deployment process more stable and organized.