Project Idea Validation: Job search with map

Hey, IndieHackers, I'm new around here. Nice to be a part of this community.
Sorry for the spelling/gramming errors, English is not my first language.

Introduction

After some time building this, I finally published this week the first beta version! Say hello to Vabiso.com!

This is a basic but functional MVP. It's a map-based job search engine. It has some bugs and many improvements to make, but if it was 100% perfect then it wouldn't be an MVP XD

I'm a web programmer with quite a lot of experience, I set up the whole system myself. Now what I need is people to tell me if this project makes sense or not.
Now, I need help to validate the idea. Your comments are very valuable to me!

Problem

I had the idea a long time ago (about 2 years ago). When I was looking for a job near where I lived.
There are many websites where there are job offers, but it's a lot of effort to be looking at several websites every day. It's also not easy to filter by nearby locations to avoid jobs where you have to travel a lot each day.
And some of the sites have annoying advertising!

Solution

A website that indexes the content of these web portals and allows you to easily filter and visualize the jobs on a map.

Why am I doing this now?

Part of the code and internal logic I did two years ago (I left the project when I found a job). But it's been this last month that I've seen that the real tool can be very useful with post-Covid.
Basically I have family and friends who have lost their jobs because of the COVID (either "temporarily until the COVID runs out" or permanently).

How does it work?

Simply enter the website, move around the map and the results are displayed in the right column (desktop) or in the footer (mobile devices).
You can also filter by text or dates, or display the category filter (bottom left).

When you click on a job offer, you are redirected to the original website where the job was posted.

Why did you start programming before validating if there is a target audience?

Because part of the validation was whether it was technically feasible to do so.
To know if it is possible to index values from different websites in an easy and scalable way, and to know if having a map with so many points would be slow and unusable.

Why are there almost no category filters?

When I say categories, I mean anything that serves to categorize jobs:

• the source site
• type of contract
• whether or not it's remote
• type of use
• employment sector
• language
• …

Right now I only have the "source site" filter implemented. The rest of the filters are future features. This is an MVP after all!
The main problem I have with the categories is that each language/country uses different words to refer to the same thing. I have to see how I do it to avoid having duplicate filters.

What's next and possible future improvements

If I see that it passes the validation phase, I will add new features.
Now I have the following in mind:

• Indexing more websites and more countries
• Sort the results by proximity to the center of the map
• Have filters like categories, salary, currency, language, if they are remote jobs, ...
• Besides the map, have the typical search page in list format. Useful especially for remote jobs where the location is not important.
• Allow users to bookmark jobs so they can be found later in a private list for that user only.
• Allow user to save searches
• Email alerts when jobs that support saved searches are detected
• Allows you to register your own ads on this website, not all of which are indexed from external websites.
• Auto-detect your location when you enter the map for the first time so that you can focus the results on the site you find automatically.

But as I say, this is a minimum viable product to check if people would use this kind of map to look for a job. If the feedback is that people prefer to use listings instead of a map ... I don't think this project makes sense.

Monetization

First of all, right now and until the idea is validated, using the web is completely free. And what you see now will always be free for the job seeker.

Then I have thought about several ways of monetization, but they can be summarized in 3 points:

• putting advertising on the web. I don't like the idea, and it would be hypocritical since I'm the first one using an ad blocker.
• living off affiliates. Some portals allow to charge for affiliation, but there are almost none and the estimated income is very low
• subscription membership to be able to access some functionalities (sending alerts by email or being able to use all filters). Probably an annual fee of between 10 and 20 euros.

🙏🏼 I need your opinion!

I want to know your opinion about it (idea, design, functionality, anything!)

https://vabiso.com/

If you've had to look for a job, or know someone who is looking for one now... is it useful to have a website like this?
Would you use it before the typical portals that do not have a map?
what would you add or change?

Thanks for your time IndieHackers