Made 4k 💵 with Job Board Search 🔎

Made 4k 💵 with Job Board Search 🔎

Built it with a single PHP file, vanilla CSS & JavaScript!

Inspired by

Pieter Levels @levelsio

• Ship asap
• Minimalist tech
• Transparent / #buildinpublic

Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo

• Small Bets
• Low Hanging-Fruit
• Randomness / Luck

Why? / How? 👇

Why?

• Learned that StackOverflow Jobs was shutting down from a @levelsio tweet on a late Saturday night. Some folks were asking about alternatives (Low-hanging fruit)

• The same night registered stackoverflowjobsalternatives.com (Small bets) , next morning made a quick MVP in 5 hours and tweeted about it (Ship asap / Minimalistic)

How?

• Pieter liked it, and suggested including feature tags, it did it right away (Ship asap), he sent me a DM the next day and made an RT of the tweet and a lot of founders started to reach out to get added and started to gain traction (Randomness)

• I launched on Product Hunt really quickly, it was my 1st time ever and I did it really wrong, but even if I did get only 47 upvotes it drove traffic and more founders reached out.

• I sent a DM to Pieter asking about the sponsored slots , he suggested me some pricing, also pivoting to a job board directory, picking the name jobboardsearch.com

• I tweeted about the slots, and right away Phil from 4 day week job board acquired a slot (Luck) and it was the 1st ever money made 🤑

• Inspired by Guilherme Rizzo from CSS Scan made a post on Reddit and it went viral (Randomness / Luck) and got a lot of feedback, traffic, exposure, and awareness, it was a blast 🚀

• I've made a single comment on @csallen post at Indie Hackers about the curated list of job boards and right away a moderator commented down (Randomness) and suggested to make a post so I did, and the post was featured on the homepage
  Our Reddit post got 793k views 🔥 in less than 48 hours thanks to the support of another Indie Hacker.

• From here on I mostly was adding features, sharing on daily basis transparently, building in public is very powerful as you help, promote, get feedback.

• I barely did any outreach but since I put the paid slots every month was SOLD OUT

As you can see there is a lot of Randomness and Luck involved 🍀, but also a lot of time on the laptop:

Promoting
• Twitter (Mostly)
• Hacker News
• Reddit

Coding (in public)
• Features
• Automations
• Including job boards
• Programmatic SEO

I don't see it as a win but a really small one! Sure there is luck involved but don't forget 👇

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca

Keep it up 💪 and enjoy the ride!

Hope you liked the story (sorry a bit long 😬), thanks a lot everyone🙏

I am Rod (@rrmdp on Twitter) , building multiple projects in public and always happy to help and answer any question 😃

Looking forward to hearing from you...