LucidTrack

When we started LucidTrack, we were students juggling dozens of internship and grad scheme applications. Spreadsheets, sticky notes, and calendar reminders were not enough. In fact, they led to many long and irritating nights in my university dorm. We needed something that could grow with us and adapt to how we work. That is why we built LucidTrack, not just to track applications but to make the process yours. The application process is overwhelming. Many students make between 60 and 120 applications for any given role. With each application having an average of four rounds, that is between 240 and 480 individual rounds. I have not done the maths on how many hours that is for my own sanity. Each round has its own deadlines, research to do, and practice tests to complete. It is a lot. When I was going into my second year at university, my co-founder Bernard and I were on a call, me in the middle of nowhere in England, him in Japan, talking about how we would approach internship applications for the coming academic year. We decided we would gather a long list of applications, split them in half, and share our findings with each other, effectively cutting our workload in half. Then we realised we needed some way to track who was doing what. At this point, we started to feel daunted by the seemingly endless admin ahead of us and we needed something to help. To try to make life easier, we created an Excel sheet to track our applications, just like every other student across the country, if not the world. It quickly became obvious that this sheet was going to be endlessly irritating to maintain and would lead to a high likelihood of my laptop being launched out of my university window in frustration. As a result, I thought, “Surely some impatient CS student has already built a platform to manage all of this admin for me.” I was wrong. I went looking, found nothing, and that is when LucidTrack was born. It was born because deadlines, interview rounds, status updates, and company research pile up fast. It is easy to lose track, miss deadlines, or forget where you left off. We built LucidTrack to solve that by centralising everything in one place. More importantly, it adapts to your workflow.