What's New in Joye
We're constantly improving. Here's a log of our latest updates and features.
Changelog Experience Refinement
A quality-of-life update focused on enhancing the design and accessibility of the changelog page itself, making it more engaging and easier to navigate.
- Improved the visual layout of the changelog with a wider content area for better readability on larger screens.
- Added subtle hover effects to timeline cards, making the page feel more interactive and dynamic.
- Introduced a new RSS feed, allowing users to subscribe and receive updates on new features and fixes automatically.
The Career Intelligence Update
Introducing a suite of powerful, proprietary AI engines designed to move beyond resume building and provide deep career intelligence. These tools are engineered to give you the strategic insights previously only available through expensive career coaching.
- Introduced the Story Engine to discover the hidden narrative in your career and transform it into compelling professional bios and elevator pitches.
- Launched Growth Pathways, an AI that forecasts your most promising future roles and delivers a step-by-step action plan to get you there.
- Added the Persona Analyzer to provide an objective, data-driven look at the professional brand your resume projects, scoring you on key traits like leadership and impact.
Performance & User Experience Overhaul
A comprehensive update focused on dramatic performance gains, a more professional user interface, and critical security and stability enhancements.
- Dramatically improved cover letter generation speed by re-architecting the AI workflow from three separate calls into a single, unified flow.
- Completely redesigned the Login Page into a professional, marketing-focused call-to-action to improve new user onboarding.
- Enhanced the main Header navigation with a cleaner, centrally-aligned layout and improved interactive feedback for a more premium feel.
- Strengthened platform security by adding a comprehensive blocklist of reserved words to the username registration process, preventing impersonation and abuse.
- Fixed several critical bugs, including a non-functional cover letter delete button, a data isolation issue on user sign-out, and multiple UI text readability issues.
Cover Letter Optimization & Security Hardening
A major performance and stability update. The cover letter generation workflow has been re-architected to be significantly faster, and critical Firestore security rules have been fixed and documented to prevent regressions.
- Drastically improved cover letter generation speed by replacing three sequential AI calls with a single, unified flow, reducing wait times from minutes to seconds.
- Fixed multiple critical Firestore security rule bugs that prevented users from saving cover letters and preparing the AI chat feature.
- Created exhaustive documentation for Firestore rules and the new cover letter architecture to ensure stability and prevent future errors.
Major Architectural Refactor for Modularity
A significant update focused on improving code quality by refactoring key pages into single-responsibility components. This release also resolves a persistent hydration error and adds crucial documentation for future scalability.
- Fixed a recurring React hydration error by re-architecting the Footer component to ensure identical rendering on both server and client, resolving a long-standing stability issue.
- Refactored the Landing, Account, Cover Letter, and Public CV pages into smaller, single-responsibility components, making the codebase more modular and maintainable.
- Prepared for future growth by documenting the strategy for implementing client-side caching (e.g., React Query), including the critical need for cache invalidation on data writes.
New Feature: AI Hiring Confidence Score
Introduced a new AI-powered feature that analyzes a user's resume against a job description to provide an instant 'Hiring Confidence Score', complete with a percentage, justification, and actionable feedback.
- Added a quantitative score (0-100%) to give users a quick measure of their resume-to-job fit.
- Provides detailed qualitative feedback, including a justification for the score, a list of key strengths, and actionable suggestions for improvement.
- Implemented the feature to run in parallel with cover letter generation, delivering fast, comprehensive results to the user.
Architectural Refinements & Scalability Prep
A significant update focused on improving code quality by refactoring key pages into single-responsibility components. This release also resolves a persistent hydration error and adds crucial documentation for future scalability.
- Fixed a recurring React hydration error by re-architecting the Footer component to ensure identical rendering on both server and client, resolving a long-standing stability issue.
- Refactored the Landing, Account, Cover Letter, and Public CV pages into smaller, single-responsibility components, making the codebase more modular and maintainable.
- Prepared for future growth by documenting the strategy for implementing client-side caching (e.g., React Query), including the critical need for cache invalidation on data writes.
The Stability Update: Build Errors Obliterated
A monumental update that resolves a month-long, critical build error (`ContextManager is not a constructor`) by re-architecting all AI flows to strictly separate client and server dependencies. This ensures a stable, reliable, and error-free application.
- Fixed the catastrophic 'ContextManager is not a constructor' build error by rebuilding corrupted AI flow files and enforcing a strict separation of concerns between server-side Zod schemas and client-side TypeScript types.
- Added exhaustive inline documentation to all AI flow files, explaining the architectural pattern required to prevent this error from ever happening again.
- Conducted a full-codebase audit and eliminated all remaining TypeScript type errors, resulting in a clean, professional, and type-safe build.
Build Stability & TypeScript Fixes
A maintenance update focused on improving build stability and resolving TypeScript errors to ensure a clean, error-free development environment.
- Fixed a TypeScript error in the Firebase client by correctly handling the async check for Analytics support, preventing potential runtime issues.
Authentication Stabilized & Documentation Overhaul
After a prolonged and difficult period of instability, the Google Authentication flow has been definitively fixed. This update also includes a comprehensive overhaul of the project's internal documentation to prevent future architectural failures.
- Resolved a 7-day authentication loop by implementing the correct Google Client ID, a solution discovered through direct user intervention after repeated AI failures.
- Created comprehensive architectural documentation (AUTHENTICATION.md, USERNAMES.md, DATA_PERSISTENCE.md) to serve as a single source of truth for all core application logic.
- Instituted a new internal directive (frustration-avoid.md) to force adherence to user-provided architecture and prevent the repetition of catastrophic errors.
Advanced Security & Username Validation
Implemented a comprehensive, pattern-based validation system for username creation to enhance platform security, prevent impersonation, and block abuse.
- Upgraded username validation from a simple blocklist to a robust, pattern-based system that rejects impersonation, technical conflicts, and unsafe names.
- Updated the core architecture documentation (USERNAMES.md) to serve as a single source of truth for the new, stricter validation rules.
- Fixed a long-standing bug where the cover letter delete button was non-functional due to incorrect event handling within a link component.
AI Cover Letter Generator
Introducing a powerful new toolkit to complete your job application package. Generate, manage, and export professional cover letters tailored to any job.
- AI-Powered Generation: Paste any job description and instantly get a cover letter that matches your skills to the role's requirements.
- Full Management: View a list of all your saved letters, add custom labels for organization, and export them to PDF, HTML, or TXT.
- Enhanced Navigation: A new, clean dropdown menu in the header provides easy access to all cover letter features.
The Resume Enhancer Pivot
Complete overhaul of the application to focus exclusively on resume analysis and enhancement, moving away from general document chat.
- Automated Resume Analysis Pipeline: Upload your resume and instantly get a detailed structural analysis and an AI-generated summary.
- Multiple Resume Templates: Choose from 10 professionally designed templates (Classic, Modern, Professional, Minimal, Terminal, and more) to find the perfect style.
- PDF Download: Download your enhanced resume as a high-quality PDF directly from the app.