Considering convex as a database for a job tracker with background scripts
I'm developing a personal job tracker for myself, and I'm basically a bit overwhelmed with what to use here, (why pay 299$ for a job tracker when you can build it yourself)
What i want exactly is to have a notion notebook or just web page where i can categorise emails into offer, applied, rejected, and I'm slightly unsure on what to use here, since i want to keep the tracker running when I'm off the web page.
And how should i optimize the mutations to be fast while not overloading the server or the email API?
I hope i made it clear!
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Thank you!
Are you looking for functions to run whenever you send/receive emails to find job related emails and categorize them in your Convex db? If you could link to tone of the $299 job trackers you're referencing that might answer a lot of questions in one go, too.
Mainly keeping things efficient and running without overloading the functions, or over charging the GMAIL API and/or the gemeni ai.
I've decided yesterday to use a loop and chunk the calls to match the limits.
I don't want to get sued, but if you search up "- .- .--. / -.-. .- .-. . . .-. ..." you'll find out one of the few I'm talking about
I'm not trying to copy others, I just need to close the limitations
Makes sense