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Building My First App — JiffyCV
My first ever app — JiffyCV — is now live! Here’s the story about how it came to be, the approach I took to make it and what I learned along the way.
You find out more about the app on our website https://jiffycv.com or find it in the app store and play :
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/jiffycv/id1542050610#?platform=iphone
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jiffycv.jiffycv
The imaginative spark
I originally started looking at building some form of tool to assist job hunting in 2016, after the startup I was part of closed down and I found myself struggling to remember what I’d done in the last five years and what to include in my CV.
The idea I had then was to build a Kanban tool, similar to Trello that helped keep track of the jobs you applied for, allowing the user to upload the CV they submitted and to create interview notes from that CV.
I then started looking at a means to create CVs, allowing the user to create different versions so they could have multiple CVs created from a combination of versions.
