Indie Hacker Jobs - Find jobs helping other indie hackers
Check it out at https://indiehackerjobs.com
Find jobs helping other indie hackers until you make it to ramen profitability.
Then come back to hire & support other indiehackers as you grow.
Indiehacker Jobs is a shot in the dark. After $12 (for the domain) and 5-6 hours of work, I have my first prototype (https://indiehackerjobs.com).
Indiehacker Jobs has the potential to solve several problems I face. First and foremost, my time is very limited as a family man with a wife and 1.9 kids (2nd one due in less than a week). One of my other projects has caught a small amount of traction, and I'm struggling to put the time in it deserves in order to grow. However, it is making a little each month. Indiehacker Jobs is one way for me to find talent specific for the job I need done. I don't want a big corporation developer helping me, I want another indiehacker.
Also, for many of us, it takes a long time before our bootstrapped projects make enough income for us to quit our day jobs. Many shortcut that by consulting on the side. Indiehacker Jobs is a way to discover consulting work that aligns well with your skill set, and can hopefully help fill the financial void left from quitting a day job until you're ramen profitable.
Let me know what you think!
Hey Cam - I think it's worthwhile. I was looking to create something similar as well. So congrats - saved me some time ;) but I too have family and project I'm launching and need to focus on marketing mostly now, but sometime you need someone who's similarly focused or mindset vs some random stranger. I've used a variety of sources out there - and none are as good as someone genuinely interested in your success. Even fiverr/upwork, etc is just another person looking for $. Sometimes more than just $ is connections, being part of something, and upping your skills.
My opinions, but I literally was going to build a simple tool like this too.
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Good to hear I'm not the only one. I've got to figure out how to reach more of the community though in order for it to have any chance.
I think 90% of Indie Hackers there want to quit their day jobs and never hire anyone except VA's. Also paying for a job post if you could go to Fiverr or UpWork and browser thousands of VAs profiles could be your main challenge. But what if narrow it down to a specific niche like Job Board for VAs/Support persons for ISVs?
I think for large projects doing everything by one person is a negative thing. Sometimes it make sense to hire an expert in a domain than learn it,master it and then use it. It will take forever to finish.
I don't have any experience with fiverr or other platforms other than just browsing. I've never used them. I'm assuming VA means virtual assistant? Is ISV independent software vendor?
I'm not opposed to those ideas. But it's not the problem I had that I was trying to solve. You bring up very good points though.
My thought was the job posts would need to be much cheaper than a traditional job board, because it would be serving indie's who are bootstrapped. I'm not opposed to hiring someone but that's mainly because I have so many demands on my time I simply can't do everything I want to. So yea, I'm not exactly sure what type of a market there is or if there is any money to be made. Thats why it looks a bit crappy and I limited my time & money to 6 hours and $12 haha. We'll see if it does anything.
Very much interested to know if you get paid listings.
Maybe if there's enough subscribers. At least that's how I see it.
It might be too to have a way to indicate "trades" and what kind of trades you could use, plus what services/products you could offer. I'd love to trade on some work if I could find people with the skills I need who have the pain points in good at solving.
That's a neat idea. My problem is I still want to learn how to do everything haha.
Well, I don't see why teaching each other couldn't be part of the trade. But if you're willing to pay for it, why not trade for it, when it makes sense?
Nice! Have been thinking about making a job post here... glad there is a designated place for it.
If you have any questions or if I could do anything to help just let me know.
Totally a fan! I straddle the line of being bother job provider and recipient frequently, so happy to see this live! Would love to see it grow and expand to become a base for other indie hackers out there to support themselves while their building!
That's the goal :)
Subscribed to stay informed :)
Awesome :) thanks!
Hi Cam, Interesting idea. I think by focusing on Indie Hacker founders you do get better quality candidates. But assuming many bootstrapping founders are already busy juggling between work and side project and there are little time and energy left to take on additional task. But of course, if it's something really interesting, then that will work.