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Job-searching AI Bot
An early Slack and Hubot experiment for automating job-search workflows before the current AI-agent tooling wave.
The job-searching bot is useful now because it shows the agent/workflow thread was already present in the work years before modern coding agents made it fashionable. It belongs in Product Labs as archive evidence: a small product-shaped automation experiment rather than a polished current product.
Job hunting creates repeated search, filtering, and notification work. This bot explored whether a chat workflow could turn that repeated behaviour into a lightweight assistant inside Slack.
- The public Medium article documents the Hubot and Slack implementation approach.
- The experiment predates the current agentic-product wave but already treats chat as a workflow surface.
- It now works as historical product-lab evidence for a long-running interest in bots, automation, and assistant-shaped interfaces.
- Shows continuity between older bot experiments and current AI-agent work.
- Frames Slack/chat as a product surface, not just a notification channel.
- Belongs in Product Labs as an archived product experiment rather than Studio media.
Keep it as archive evidence for now; later it could be folded into a broader article on the evolution from bots to agents.