We're slightly cheating on this one as it was not requested by a client but by one of us for his sourcing activities 🙃

Problem

When you're sourcing profiles as an independent, you rarely have access to an ATS and its affiliated LinkedIn Chrome Extension. You often end up using Google Sheets or a Notion database to store the profiles you sourced on LinkedIn.

But here's the issue:

It takes hours to manually copy-paste info from LinkedIn to such a database.

Solution

We did what most ATS provider did: We developed our own Chrome Extension to automatically send LinkedIn profiles to a Notion database through Notion's brand new API.

Development

It took approximately two weeks to develop the extension. We used vanilla html/css/javascript and a bit of bootstrap for the extension itself. We also deployed a micro server coded with flask on heroku to securely provide the extension with Notion's secret tokens.

Outcome

It works like a charm and independent sourcers such as ourselves can save hours of head hunting with a Notion's free tier plan.