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I've build a job board for product management vacancies in London. It's basically a collection of available roles but structured in a way it makes sense for product people, e.g. job level. Other sites often fail to fit Product roles in categories like Marketing or De
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I'm a product person! @Rik what happened to workinproduct.co? Think we'd all love to hear the learnings if you're open to sharing. Or else would love to connect 1:1. I'm a Bay Area startup product person
Hi @plaksel. I know this was posted a while back, but I’m curious to know how you (and also @altafino) were able to grow your job boards to what they are today?
I started Premotely.com as a newsletter, but the workflow is hard to automate (with the tools and time available to me). So, I’m working on a job board version.. Questions:
how you get recruiters / companies to post jobs? Did you advertise on LinkedIn? Cold emailing?
how did you decide on your pricing model? I’m considering a “freemium” model; free to post, then recruiters pay to have a featured listing. Plus sponsorship on alert emails. In the beginning who would pay to put a job on an empty board!?
how many hours input does it require from you?
what are your revenues like?
are you using scrapers to find jobs to pad out the job board?
I’m grateful for any insights you could give me at this early stage. Thank you!
@typeofgraphic I'd love to hear where you're at and compare notes. I'm also working on a job board and would love to learn from those who are farther ahead or even who have abandoned.
Hi @typeofgraphic
I would say, at least with this project, i'm not a good example to give you a lot of working tips. It was after a long time my first side project I did, I learned a lot, both about making something in public and also technically, getting in some new stuff and building a own "SaaS" framework for my other projects I do now ( kunvenu.com / omnited.com and now nboarding.com )
But back to fullstackjob.com and related boards... I did around 600 USD in 1.5 years... not that much :-)
What I miss: I have a 70+ h day job and just miss time to actively do marketing, do cold calls/mails to try to get into HR, do much more SEO to be able to show high value etc etc.
And of course. there are 1000s of job boards, so you really need to find a niche, where you are in touch with potential customers. If not, imho... it's good for learning only :-)
And when you ask, how I have so much jobs (which are needed to resolve a certain chicken/egg problem). Yes, I build a scheduled scrapper for different skills on a non-maker/indiehacker guy's job board (big company)
I like it :-)
Greets from a "other-niche board" hacker: https://fullstackjob.com
Cheers - love how many people are building niche job boards that are actually useful. Keep up the great work!
How do you drive users to your website?
thanks. the power may be with us :-)
And about driving users to my site. That's actually biggest challenge for me. I started very recently and do now Twitter/FB Page posts, niche-related blog on the page, looking for good backlinks, SEO... But until now the numbers are not good enough. not a surprise, needs time and work.
So if you are looking for job as a football player I may help you. This is one of the biggest international football online platform www.433agent.com in the world . It is one of the world best job websites. It has an advanced search function that allows you to filter in several criteria while searching for a contract . It gives you the option of searching based on your location, your degree and the pay range that you want.