internboard

A personal software-engineering internship board and application tracker. Public lists like SimplifyJobs can lag hours behind a posting going live, and early applications matter, so this goes to the source: it polls company job boards directly and alerts my phone when a new SWE internship appears.

How it works

• Sources - aggregator lists (SimplifyJobs, SpeedyApply), company job boards discovered in Common Crawl's URL index (discover.py), and direct polling of Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Workable and other ATS APIs.
• Tiered scheduler (board.py) - a priority heap per tier feeds a thread pool. Companies with SWE-internship history are checked every minute, other intern-posting companies every few minutes, the long tail every 15. Per-platform concurrency caps, rate-limit backoff, ETag / 304 conditional requests, and a day-long pause for boards that start returning 403s.
• Filtering - is_swe decides whether a posting is actually a software internship (tested against real false positives in test_filter.py), plus US-undergrad and pay checks.
• Dedupe (store.py) - one row per real job no matter how many places list it, keyed on the source's own job ID parsed from the URL, stored in SQLite.
• "Likely dropping soon" (signals.py) - watches public Reddit and GitHub discussion for signs a company's internships are about to open.
• Alerts - push notifications through ntfy.

Running it

python3 board.py        # stdlib only, serves the board on localhost
python3 discover.py     # optional: refresh boards.json from Common Crawl (weekly is plenty)
python3 test_filter.py  # tests are plain asserts; same for test_store.py and test_signals.py

Deployment

Runs 24/7 on an Oracle Cloud free-tier Ubuntu server. deploy.sh ships the tracked code and restarts the service; secrets stay in .env on the server. State is encrypted with age and pushed nightly to a private backups repo (backup.sh / restore.sh). A GitHub Actions workflow (monitor.yml) acts as an outside watchdog that alerts if the server itself goes down.