This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 — Slow and Steady

What I Built

I'm a junior dev in São José dos Campos, Brazil, looking for my next job. Like everyone, I signed up for job alerts on LinkedIn, Indeed and Gupy. And like everyone, my inbox turned into a wall of "47 new jobs for you" emails.

I was spending about 4 hours a day on them: reading the alerts, opening each site, reading the requirements, and finding out (again) that "Junior" meant 5 years of experience.

So I built SlothScout 🦥. Every night at 3 a.m., while I'm asleep, it:

reads only my Vagas Gmail label over IMAP (read-only),

pulls every job posting out of the alert emails,

dedupes them (the same job shows up in three alerts),

scores each one against my résumé and my criteria with Gemma 3 4B running locally on Ollama ,

and leaves me a morning page with two lines: apply to these, ignore the rest.

My first real run:

Alert emails read 15

Job postings scored 49

Above my cutoff (70) 1

Total time…