I&#x27;ve applied to probably 100+ jobs in the past two years. I tried keeping track for a while and later felt it was not helpful. Occasionally I have to dig back through emails to verify things, like whether a recruiter submitted me for a certain company, and it can be a slight pain. But I don&#x27;t think I would get enough value out of a whole app dedicated to this topic to bother to download it, and I am probably an ideal user of such a thing.<p>Third party recruiters are the number one pain of the process. They don&#x27;t respect candidates; they don&#x27;t want to hear about your goals or your search constraints; they just aggressively talk over you. And I&#x27;m even talking about the so-called &#x27;good&#x27; recruiters that you get referred to by word of mouth. Even they will break your heart.<p>The second pain point is well known: everyone uses different online application portals, and everyone has different requirements for manual data entry. I would have expected by now that applying at any company is as simple as just uploading a resume and clicking through some boilerplate agreements or ethnicity surveys that we would all be wise enough to always opt-out of. But I&#x27;m still dealing with application sites that look like they were built in 1995 and require upwards of 30 minutes of manual data entry.<p>Apps that could alleviate the pain of these issues would be way more valuable than organizational apps. The pain of the disorganization is just not that meaningful.