I Got Into the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon. I'm Bringing YourMove.

Ten days, a global AI hackathon, and a job application tool I’m building because I got tired of applying for jobs.

I was accepted into the Indie Developer track of the 2026 Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon, hosted by Meta and Cerebral Valley.

I’m bringing YourMove, the free, open-source, local-first job application tool I’ve been building while looking for work myself.

That’s a pretty cool sentence to get to write.

It’s also slightly ridiculous timing, considering I’m already working toward a November release. Apparently, having a launch deadline wasn’t enough excitement.

But this is an opportunity I couldn’t really pass up.

This started with a problem I know a little too well.

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career in technical support, systems engineering, and web development. I’ve worked on complicated systems, dealt with production problems, and helped businesses figure out why things that should work simply don’t.

And then I found myself on the other side of the equation, looking for work.

If you’ve applied for jobs recently, you probably know where this is going.

Upload your résumé. Now manually enter everything that’s already on your résumé. Answer questions you’ve answered fifteen times before. Figure out which version of your résumé fits this particular job. Write another cover letter. Start over because the application timed out.

And that’s before you get to the actual challenge of convincing another human being you’re worth talking to.

I kept thinking: I’m a developer. Why am I spending so much time doing something a computer should be helping me with?

So I started building YourMove.

The idea is fairly straightforward. Keep your job opportunities, résumés, work history, and application answers together. Reuse what you’ve already prepared. Get help understanding job postings and filling out supported employer forms without rebuilding everything from scratch.

And when it’s time to submit an application, that’s still your decision.

You review the answers. You make the corrections. You submit on the employer’s website.

I’m building the kind of tool I wish I’d had when I started looking for work.

You can see more of the actual workflow on the How YourMove Works page.

I don’t want AI applying to hundreds of jobs for people.

There’s already plenty of software promising to apply to hundreds of jobs while you sleep.

That’s not what interests me.

I don’t think the biggest problem with job applications is that people aren’t sending enough of them. I think it’s that we’re spending an absurd amount of time repeating information we’ve already provided.

And somewhere in all that repetition, the parts of our experience that actually make us interesting get lost.

AI could help with that. But I also think there’s a difference between using AI to help someone explain their experience and letting it decide what their experience was.

I’ve been pretty stubborn about that distinction.

YourMove is being built around the idea that the applicant remains the authority. The software can help prepare the work, but it shouldn’t invent accomplishments, guess at personal facts, or decide which claims someone is comfortable putting their name on.

Which brings me to the hackathon.

What I want to build with Meta’s AI models

The Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon runs from October 26 through November 4, 2026. It’s a virtual competition for developers building with Meta’s AI models and tools.

The Indie Developer track is judged on creativity, technical ambition, and whether the thing actually works.

I particularly appreciate that last requirement.

One of the hackathon’s themes is called Build for Your World. The idea is to solve a problem you know firsthand.

Well, I certainly know this one.

For the hackathon, I want to push YourMove further in an area I’ve been calling career evidence.

Here’s what I mean.

A résumé is a summary of someone’s career. It isn’t the career itself.

I’ve spent years solving technical problems, handling escalations, and working through situations that would be difficult to explain in a couple of résumé bullet points. I know what happened because I was there. But translating those experiences into a useful answer on a job application is another problem entirely.

And I doubt I’m alone.

Think about how many useful stories people have from their working lives that never make it onto a résumé.

The production issue they stayed late to fix. The difficult customer they managed to keep. The process they improved because the old one was driving everybody crazy.

Those experiences are evidence of what someone can do. They’re also the details that get lost when every application starts with the same blank text box.

What I’m interested in exploring is whether AI can help people recover those details.

Maybe it can examine an existing master résumé and ask better follow-up questions. Maybe it can help someone turn a conversation about a real project into a structured record they can reuse. Maybe that evidence can help produce a more relevant cover letter or an application answer without making anything up.

The important part is that the person owns the information and approves what gets used.

Some of that groundwork already exists in YourMove. The hackathon gives me a reason to experiment with how far I can take it using Meta’s models.

I don’t know yet which approaches will prove useful. That’s why I’m building and testing them.

If I can demonstrate a real workflow where someone captures an experience they actually had and uses it to prepare a better application answer, I’ll consider that meaningful progress.

Ten days to build. A November launch to keep moving.

There are two things happening here.

YourMove is already an independent software project with an upcoming release. That work doesn’t stop because I got into a hackathon.

The hackathon is an opportunity to explore what the next version could become, without losing sight of what the existing tool is supposed to do.

And I think that’s an important distinction.

I don’t have a big development team or venture capital behind this project. I’m one developer building something I believe should exist, and I have to be fairly careful about where I spend my time.

There have been plenty of late nights, broken builds, rewritten components, and moments where I’ve wondered why I didn’t pick a less complicated problem.

But there have also been those moments when something finally works, and you can see how it might make a frustrating part of somebody’s day a little easier.

Those are the moments that keep me building.

Being accepted into the hackathon doesn’t mean YourMove has won anything. It doesn’t mean the project is finished. It means I have an opportunity to test an idea, learn from some talented people, and hopefully come out of it with something useful.

Over the next ten days, I’ll share some of the experiments, the decisions, and probably a few things that didn’t go according to plan.

If you’re looking for work yourself, or you’re a developer interested in building AI tools that leave people in control, you’re welcome to follow along.

You can explore the project at yourmove.run. The source code is available through GitHub, and I’m working toward the first public desktop release in November.

The goal hasn’t changed.

Make applying for jobs a little less miserable. Help people carry their experience from one application to the next. And give them more control over how they present themselves.

Now I just have to build the next piece.

Back to work.

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Joshua Jenks is the independent developer behind YourMove, a free, open-source, local-first job application tool. The Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon is organized by Meta and Cerebral Valley. Learn more about the event.