I've been sending a lot of outreach messages lately as part of my job search, and pretty quickly ran into the same wall every time.

Writing a good, personalized message was never the problem. The problem was everything before it: finding the right contact, pulling context on the role or company, checking if I'd already reached out, then logging it somewhere so I wouldn't lose track.

There was a lot of repetitive work standing between me and writing the message itself.

So I started building a small dashboard (React, Vite, deployed on Vercel) to handle the deterministic stuff. It looks up contacts, pulls the context I need, and tracks everything in Notion automatically. I pretty much just do the writing.

Still early and still just for me, but it's already saved a chunk of time I used to burn on busywork instead of actually reaching out to people.

#ProductDesign #BuildInPublic #JobSearch

Building your own dashboard to kill the repetitive lookup work instead of just grinding through it manually says a lot. Did you set out planning to build something, or did the busywork hit a point where vibe-coding a fix felt faster than doing the research by hand one more time?

Cadence - marketing site for a product analytics SaaS. Events, funnels, retention and revenue in one dashboard, no SQL.

I am the designer on this project. UX thinking, visual direction, interface design and the Webflow implementation - all on me, every section from scratch.

Analytics products are hard to explain, and their sites usually collapse into feature lists and jargon. The task was to show the depth of the platform without making it feel complicated. So it opens on a working dashboard scene instead of a generic SaaS illustration - real analytics patterns throughout: activation rates, conversion paths, live event streams, retention cohorts, alerts.

A scroll-driven tour runs the whole workflow from event capture to automatic alerts, each stage with its own interface. Scroll reveals, animated metrics, hover states and sticky navigation are all live in the browser, across desktop, tablet and mobile.

Still working on the design and the Webflow build - more of it coming soon.

nice work