News & updates about the development

Hello there! 👋 Here's to another productive week from the Letraz team. Once again, we are here to share the progress we made this week. Here's what we have for you:

✦ We've finally finished the months long migration to the django backend. We'll explain why we did this in a moment, but for those who just want some context: we initially planned to write the software's server code in JavaScript with Next.js, but later decided to move to a dedicated long running server would do us better for this app and moved to Python with django for our web framework.
✦ Moving to django was one of the best decision we took early in the project. This gave us the power of a long running server and opened many doors for performance optimization, queue monitoring, web-scraping and more while also enabling us to leverage the most of the skills and prowess of our talented team.
✦ While Next.js still serves the frontend and will continue to do so, now we have five separate repositories in our hand that we are looking to merge into a monorepo very soon.
✦ As per the other updates, we now have a projects section in the resume that would let you showcase the projects that you have worked on in the most sleek way possible.
✦ We have refined the experience of crafting your first resume in the onboarding phase ensuring that the first resume in Letraz is delightful and memorable as ever (You'll see what we mean when we launch).

That’s all for this week’s update! 🎉 We’re excited about the progress we’re making and are grateful for your support as we continue building Letraz. Stay tuned for more updates next week as we move closer to an alpha launch very soon.

If you have any feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, reach us out on Discord—we’d love to hear from you! Until next time, keep striving for greatness. 💼✨

Hi everyone! 🚀 We're back with another weekly update to share the exciting progress we’ve made on Letraz. From new features in development to behind-the-scenes improvements, here’s a glimpse of what we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed next:

✦ We've implemented Clerk's authentication and authorization mechanism on the backend. Every request is now verified on the client side as well as on the server side for increased security. Authorization mechanism is also in place ensuring that someone can only access resources they are meant too.
✦ Our backend is now live, deployed on our own infrastructure. Having the Docker configured for our codebase really helped with the deployment.
✦ We have implemented the ability to update your profile, that is your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, address and a whole lot more.
✦ In our internal documentation, there's a new page outlining the architecture that we'll use to get and send the from and to the backend server. This is a highly technical document and we spent a hefty amount of time refining and finalizing the process.
✦ We are now displaying nice and descriptive error messages on the UI if something goes wrong unexpectedly.
✦ We've also implemented a robust error monitoring system both in the client side as well as in the server side to monitor and resolve errors proactively as they occur in our system.
✦ And as one of the biggest technical achievement, we've successfully enabled React Compiler in our project. That aims to increase the performance of the application multi-fold with it's built in optimization.

That’s all for this week’s update! 🎉 We’re excited about the progress we’re making and are grateful for your support as we continue building Letraz. Stay tuned for more updates next week as we move closer to launching a tool that empowers job seekers everywhere.

If you have any feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, reach us out on Discord—we’d love to hear from you! Until next time, keep striving for greatness. 💼✨

Hello there! Another great week ahead! Let's go through what we did in the last week. Last week we've come a long way in terms of internal workflow solidifying (developing process that would allow us to move faster without breaking things).

Let's see what we have in terms of update last week:

✦ We've finalized the editor for editing individual resumes. This editor will power all the interactions where editing a resume will be necessary.
✦ We have also laid the grounds for optimistic updates. That means whatever action you perform, they will be happening instantaneously with almost no delay whatsoever.
✦ We have set up a Docker for most of our backend infrastructure. This step aligns with our larger goal of converting our fragmented GitHub repositories into a monorepo in the future.
✦ We now have a dedicated internal documentation which will continuously evolve as the project progresses. We've opened the docs up for everyone to see.. Check it out here.

That was all from us for today. See you all the next weekend. Happy job hunting.

Hello there! Here's to another great and fun weekend. To finish this week off, we are once again back with our updates. We have a relatively small list this time as most of our focus this week went to streamlining our workflow and process that would aid in the speed of development down the road.

✦ Our community in Discord is growing. If you still haven't joined, please join here. You can ask your questions and interact with the community there.
✦ We have decided to support LaTeX from the get-go. That means your resume would be generated with superior typesetting technology powered by LaTeX. Also you will be able to download a LaTeX version of your resume along with standard PDF version.
✦ We have set up a dedicated backend server with superior backend technology that would power the entirety of Letraz system and future apps.
✦ We have a new page in the website that tells the story, motivation and future vision for Letraz. Check it out here.

Here's to the most productive and fruitful new year. And also to the new way for applying for jobs.

Happy new year! This year we are determined to ship updates fast, and get the product to your hand. Starting today, we will regularly post updates about our development cycle and let you know what are we doing as we do them. To start with, we have a few updates for you.

✦ We have finalized the entirety of our database design and performed the code implementations for the same. Database related operations would be a walk in the park now.

✦ We have built the onboarding flow which will guide you through creating your first résumé when you sign up for the first time.

✦ We now have official Discord channel! Hop in there to stay connected to more frequent updates and interact with the community. Our core team also regularly hangs out in there to answer questions or just to chat.

Here's to the most productive and fruitful new year. And also to the new way for applying for jobs.