APPLY! Stewards is a WhatsApp-first opportunity platform for students, NSS personnel, recent graduates, and early-career talent in Ghana. The site acts as the public trust layer for a community that distributes verified opportunities and gives partners a clear route to reach the right audience.
- Presents APPLY! Stewards as a trusted opportunity distribution brand.
- Shows one featured verified opportunity on the homepage.
- Separates verified opportunities from member-advertised listings.
- Provides public submission and partnership pages, including optional flyer image upload for reviewed member submissions.
- Includes an internal ops workflow for reviewing, saving, publishing, and featuring opportunities.
- Uses Netlify Functions and Netlify Blobs for lightweight serverless operations.
/- public homepage with trust signals, partner CTA, WhatsApp CTA, and featured opportunity./opportunities.html- opportunity hub for verified and member-advertised listings./help-desk.html- public coming-soon page for the APPLY! Opportunity Help Desk pilot./partners.html- partnership page for recruiters, employers, training providers, and institutions./submit.html- public opportunity submission form./ops.html- protected internal workflow for APPLY! Stewards operators./scout.html- internal workflow for extracting opportunities from LinkedIn posts, screenshots, and raw notes./desk.html- protected publishing desk for WhatsApp-ready posts, reminders, LinkedIn copy, and branded post images.
The Netlify functions live in netlify/functions and support:
- featured opportunity reads
- member opportunity reads
- public opportunity submissions
- public reviewed opportunity images
- protected opportunity management
- protected publishing status management
- trusted source syncing
- scheduled featured opportunity rotation
Protected ops actions require APPLY_ADMIN_TOKEN.
- HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript
- Netlify Functions
- Netlify Blobs
- Node.js ES modules
npm ci
cp .env.example .env
npm run check:functionsTo test the static pages locally, serve the project root with any static server.
npx serve .This project is configured for Netlify with portable paths:
- publish directory:
. - functions directory:
netlify/functions
Set APPLY_ADMIN_TOKEN in Netlify before using protected actions in /ops.html and /desk.html.
- Keep improving the verified and member-advertised opportunity lanes.
- Add stronger partner reporting and listing packages.
- Pilot the Opportunity Help Desk for CV, cover letter, checklist, and deadline support.
- Expand source syncing for trusted official opportunity feeds.
- Add optional DM delivery for approved daily post packs.
- Explore a future paid planning and accountability tier powered by LockIn-style workflows, embedded into the APPLY! opportunity journey.
This repository showcases the public APPLY! Stewards website, serverless opportunity workflows, and the product direction for a WhatsApp-first youth opportunity platform.