About Trekky
Built by one person
who hated spreadsheets.
Trekky is a small, opinionated job tracker for individual job seekers. No team workflows. No enterprise SSO. Just a clean way to manage your own search.
Why I built this
I'm Sam - a full-stack developer based in New Zealand. As an engineer, I like building clean systems. But the tech job market is pure chaos. Trekky started the fifth time I lost a recruiter's reply somewhere between a Notion page, a Google Sheet, and a folder of bookmarked tabs - and I'm still using it for my own ongoing search.
Most job tracking tools are either bloated team CRMs or one-page link savers. Neither fit a developer applying to dozens of roles, juggling different stages, and trying to remember which version of the resume went where.
So I built the thing I wanted: a Kanban that's actually fast, an extractor that pulls the boring fields automatically, a clean UI built for speed rather than enterprise feature bloat, and a small set of purpose-built AI tools to automate the actual bottlenecks: summarizing company tech stacks, preparing for behavioral interviews, and drafting context-aware follow-ups.
What I won't do with your data
Job search data is sensitive - your resume, the companies you've approached, the salaries you're negotiating. Here's where I stand on that:
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Your resume stays yours
Resume text is stored encrypted at rest and excluded from queries by default. It is never sold, shared, or used to train external AI models.
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No employer-side product
The incentives of most job platforms are fundamentally broken because the employer is the real customer. Trekky has no recruiter dashboard, no employer paid tier, and no plans to build one. You are the only customer, and the only person who sees your pipeline is you.
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Export and delete on demand
You can export every application as JSON and delete your account from settings. Deletion is permanent and removes everything within 30 days from backups too.
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No dark patterns
Cancel anytime from the customer portal. No retention pop-ups, no week-long unsubscribe flows, no asking you why.
The full details live in our Privacy Policy.
What's on the roadmap
Trekky is actively maintained. The next things I'm working on:
- Smart follow-up reminders that actually understand interview cadence.
- Offer comparison tooling for when you're in the lucky position of having more than one.
- Better extraction from non-LinkedIn job boards.
See what shipped recently in the changelog.