01 — The question
Start with the person, not the listing.
Moonshot begins with the person using it, not a listing. The aim is to find work in a region that fits their life: the pace, culture, community, routines, relationships, and room to be a whole person. A résumé and formal training are part of the picture, but so are genuine strengths, preferences, and quirks.
That means evaluating the job and the place together—what the work asks, what the culture rewards, what the surrounding life offers, and whether the compensation holds up against the region’s actual cost of living.
The question is not simply whether a job pays enough. It is whether the job, the place, and the life they create belong together.
02 — The framework
Make it easy to begin. Keep the depth available.
Each search starts with an individual brief rather than a generic salary-and-radius filter. The current alpha makes that first step approachable, while an advanced view keeps the deeper modules, discovery prompts, comparisons, and exclusions available when they matter.
A saved Know Me profile keeps confirmed strengths, interests, boundaries, and experience distinct from proposed ideas, private notes, and experiments. Only the parts deliberately opted into research enter a search brief.
Potential regions are compared as lived places, not map pins. Fit inside work and fit outside it remain visible alongside compensation, commute, travel, and the practical conditions that make a move sustainable.
How the team operates, what it rewards, and whether the work feels like a place to belong.
Compensation considered alongside housing, taxes, travel, and the everyday cost of the region.
The surrounding culture, routines, relationships, interests, and room to grow.
03 — The record
Each opportunity is compared with the brief and logged with its evidence, materials, dates, pay, location, and response status. The current alpha also keeps a dated, read-only application snapshot separate from shortlisted, prepared, and unresolved records. That keeps the role and the person’s life in view without turning preparation into proof of submission.
A role that meets the current life-and-work criteria and is ready for closer review.
A submission with a confirmed date and supporting record.
Materials exist; submission status remains open.
04 — The working method
Let the search reflect the person, and keep the record honest.
The directory keeps facts and unknowns separate. It distinguishes posted pay from personal benchmarks, confirmed submissions from unfinished materials, and substantive responses from acknowledgments. It also records location, office expectations, travel, time zones, and missing credentials as separate questions.
A new opportunity can still be a surprise. It earns consideration when the work, the region, and the life they create fit together—not because a title or a keyword made it look convenient.
05 — Current iteration
Useful by staying honest about what it does not know.
Moonshot is not pretending to be an automatic job board, an inbox connection, or a submission service. Live discovery, editable application records, persistent search history, and connected research remain future directions rather than features quietly implied by the current alpha.
For now, the experiment is about building a trustworthy bridge from self-knowledge to research: a brief the user can recognize, a record they can inspect, and a next step that does not erase the questions still worth asking.