NudgeBox: A Local-LLM Gmail Agent That Makes Sure You Never Miss an Interview
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built NudgeBox is a privacy-first agent that reads a job seeker's Gmail, finds interview invites and online assessments (HackerRank, Codility, CodeSignal, recruiter calls), and nudges them at T-7 days
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady
NudgeBox is a privacy-first agent that reads a job seeker's Gmail, finds interview invites and online assessments (HackerRank, Codility, CodeSignal, recruiter calls), and nudges them at T-7 days, T-1 day, morning-of, and T-1 hour. The T-1h nudge is a voice note sent to Telegram.
I built it for my friend Tushar. A recruiter screen invite for a job he wanted got buried under 50 marketing emails, and a weird timezone abbreviation made it worse. He missed the call.
Who gets lazier: any job seeker who currently tracks deadlines by re-scanning their inbox. Connect Gmail once and NudgeBox does the watching, timezone math, and reminding.
Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend A privacy-first, autonomous agent that reads a job seeker's Gmail, securely extracts interview invites and online assessments (OAs) using local LLMs, and durably nudges them at T-7 days, T-1 day, morning-of, and T-1 hour.
Job seekers get interview invites and OA links buried in a noisy inbox: HackerRank, Codility, CodeSignal, recruiters, and ATS systems. Deadlines are missed, times get confused across time zones, and reschedules are overlooked.
My friend Tushar is a brilliant developer, but his inbox is an absolute…