Launching two remote job boards — Aggregating more than 14 sources and counting
👋 Hello everyone,
long-time lurker here!
My name is Angel and I've been working remotely for quite some time now and have a couple of failed side-projects behind me. Recently, I realised that I should probably invest time in new projects only if they made practical sense for me.
Then it hit me that the very thing that made it possible for me to work on side-projects was actually the thing which made sense for me to optimise and put more effort and ideas in. And that was remote work.
I started going through the challenges of it and what I could solve and one thing kept standing out again and again. I realised that for every new gig I found, I used a different platform. RemoteOK, StackOverflow, twitter or LinkedIn jobs, all nice sources, but all different.
That's when I figured that maybe it will be nice to have all of those aggregated and presented to users in a nice, fast and efficient way. I purchased several domains which I used to further refine the choice of my user by job categories.
https://www.remotefrontendjobs.com and https://www.remotebackendjobs.com are now listing thousands of jobs, aggregated from more than 14 different sources (all linking back). People could also subscribe to weekly tailored notifications for new jobs (they can also specify if they are only interested in jobs with salaries specified).
All of that was designed in Figma by a friend of mine, structured as a design system which I can reuse for other consistent and responsive features. I can provide links to those who are interested.
I hope you can use my project for your next remote job hunt (we all know that's happening eventually 😊 😊 😊)
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated and I can't wait to receive it!
Thank you
Hey @crypto_coin_sky, I am mainly active on social media like Twitter, Polywork, Reddit and Indiehackers.
I am pretty sure that a lot of people use their Polywork page as their personal site hosted on a different domain and thats why I get so many different backlinks :)
Thank you
How long have these projects been live? How do you plan on approaching your target audience?
Hey, thanks for your questions!
They’ve been live for about a month already but I haven’t told anyone about them because I wanted to get more sources in first. My plan about approaching people is reaching more and more people on forums like this, large Facebook dev job board groups and Twitter :)
Hi @anikolov,
Great UI and SEO optimisations.
How did you get 10K+ backlinks for both websites in such a short time?
Hi Angel, I really appreciate your project. Do you use any software for aggregating these jobs from various sources?
Hey @m_imad, yes in fact I will be going through exactly that in my next blog post. For now you can take a look at the first part where there's some detail around how I
aggregate the jobs https://medium.com/p/anatomy-of-a-fast-next-js-job-board-a42f63aa3f39
Let me know if I can help with something else :)
Thank you. I will surely get back to you, in case I need any help. Good luck, @anikolov, with your projects.