What I built ended up being less about an application tracker but a lead finder before a role exists. The part I did not expect was the profile: a lens generated from years of assessments, feedback, and reviews that described the environments where I perform and the ones where I quietly deteriorate. The search became a different kind of project after that.

I did not build this because job search was impossible. I built it because the decision logic was too easy to keep in my head and too important to apply inconsistently. So I wrote my own formula for what a good job looks like, then turned it into a system.

Most people search for a good job. But good and right are two different things. This piece introduces a four-dimensional map, adapted from Ikigai, that helps you see where a role actually sits, and why most opportunities only land in one or two intersections, not the centre.