Full Stack2026*AI & Automation Developer
Paragon
Automated Opportunity Scraper & Market Analytics
Overview
Paragon is a personal intelligence engine that continuously monitors the internet for opportunities — job postings, freelance gigs, and paid tasks. Custom Python scrapers run in Docker containers alongside automated n8n workflows for flexible multi-source ingestion. Raw listings get filtered and ranked by self-hosted AI against your profile, surfacing only the ones worth your time. Beyond matching, it aggregates everything into market analytics: trending technologies, in-demand skills, and gaps in the market — so you decide what to learn next with data, not guesswork.
Technologies
Next.jsPostgreSQLPrisman8nOllamaDockerPythonSSH Tunneling
Challenges
- Running real-time AI filtering on a low-budget VPS with no dedicated GPU
- Normalizing messy, unstructured listings from dozens of different sources
- Keeping the opportunity feed fresh without burning through API credits
Solutions
- Offloaded LLM inference to a local machine via reverse SSH tunnel, cutting cloud AI costs by 100%
- Built automated n8n pipelines with deduplication and enrichment for clean, consistent data
- Implemented stateless JWT auth (jose, bcryptjs) with RBAC for secure dashboard access
Results
- 100% reduction in AI inference costs through hybrid-cloud tunneling
- Fully automated pipeline processing hundreds of listings daily with zero manual work
- Production-grade Docker deployment with Nginx SSL termination