JobBoardSearch 🔎 is 1 year old 🎂 and made $16,308.10 💵

1 year 🎂 since @levelsio suggested to include paid options to JobBoardSearch.com 🔎 made 💵 $16,308.10 or $1,359/mo 🥳

Built with a few PHP files & no front-end frameworks 🤩

Sharing details of the journey!

Some stats 📈

• 4️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ job boards listed
• 517K Pageviews 👀
• 287K Unique visitors 🚦
• 170K referrals (clicks) ↗
• 130 payments 💲

• 2760 subscribers ✍
• 850 Followers @jobboardsrch
• 2376 Reddit members
. 756 Telegram members

Where does traffic come from?

Traffic ranking 📊
1️⃣ Direct
2️⃣ Twitter
3️⃣ Reddit
4️⃣ Google
5️⃣ LinkedIn
6️⃣ Facebook
7️⃣ GitHub
8️⃣ IndieHackers
9️⃣ Bing
🔟 Telegram

Countries ranking 🌎
1️⃣ USA 🇺🇸
2️⃣ India 🇮🇳
3️⃣ Nigeria 🇳🇬
4️⃣ Canada 🇨🇦
5️⃣ UK 🇬🇧
6️⃣ Turkey 🇹🇷
7️⃣ France 🇫🇷
8️⃣ South Africa 🇿🇦
9️⃣ Kenya 🇰🇪
🔟 Germany 🇩🇪

Filters Ranking 🧐
1️⃣ Remote Jobs 🌏
2️⃣ Entry Level 👶
3️⃣ Remote Jobs Only 🌏
4️⃣ No degree required 🎓
5️⃣Salary required 💰
6️⃣ Design Jobs 👨‍🎨
7️⃣ Non-tech 📵
8️⃣ Web3 Companies 3️⃣
9️⃣ Front End Jobs Only 🎨
🔟 Content Writing ✍

How it's happening?

The initial traction was thanks to a couple of Pieter Level's RTs of the tweet below about me building StackOverflow Jobs Alternatives (Which later rebranded to jobboardsearch.com 🔎)

A couple of weeks later, a Sunday morning before going to the beach posted about JobBoardSearch on the subreddit r/InternetIsBeautiful and it went super viral 🔥

I've made a comment about JobBoardSearch 🔎 on an @IndieHackers
post and a moderator asked me to make a post about it (I've never written a post before)

It got featured on the home page, and newsletter which created a lot of awareness 🔥

The post 👇
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-reddit-post-got-793k-views-in-less-than-48-hours-thanks-to-the-support-of-another-indie-hacker-0000164dbb

1000s of mentions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok (I never asked or paid, happens organically)

I collected some and posted it on the Wall of Love ❤

https://jobboardsearch.com/wall-of-love

How is making the 💵?

Pieter, in a DM suggested including paid options:
• Sticky 📌
• Custom Color 🟢
• Highlight ✨

Also, I decided to include 3 sponsored slots:
• Gold 🥇
• Silver🥈
• Bronze 🥉

I tweeted, and right away 4 Day Week Jobs purchased a slot

How did I come up with the idea?

Learned about Stackoverflow Jobs was shutting down and folks asking for alternatives

Inspired by Pieter Levels' way: minimalist, scrappy, not-perfect way of doing things, ship asap and improve later

Made JobBoardSearch 🔎 MVP in 5 hours

Of course, is not all of a bed of roses, there are a lot of days that you feel that you are not capable of doing it.

It's important to share your win and loses with likeminded people, to get encouraged when you are down, and to encourage others when you feel up 😀

I even thought about not posting this at all, because I thought is not good enough

That there are other indie makers doing the same revenue in a month

But hey, even though I've been making a living by freelancing for the last 14 years this is my 1st product so I hope this inspires some other folks that are a few steps behind

It's hard to keep pushing when things are not working, it is so easy to quit!

The trick is to find something that keeps you accountable

For me was building in public and the WIP community

Even though it's hard when you receive DMs like this put a massive smile on your face and you think: it's worth it!

A random guy thanked me because my product helped him to find remote work for his mate that is having a baby 😍

The tools to run it ⚙

Posthog → Stats
EmailOctopus → Newsletter
Healthchecks → Cron job monitoring
Uptimerobot → Monitoring
Zapier → Automation
Testimonial → Wall of love
Whoisxmlapi → Domain footprints
Airtable → DB
Telegram → Notifications
Stripe → Payments

I'm grateful for all that happened in the last 6 months so I would like to give away the book 📖

make: THE INDIE MAKER HANDBOOK by @levelsio

I think it will help any indie maker starting and wanting to build a job board

How to get the book?

You need to RT 🔁 & like 🧡 the tweet below, I will make a raffle.

Thanks for reading 🙏 and hope you are enjoying my journey!

Any questions, AMA, always happy to help 😀