Reached $6.5K 💵 in revenue with JobBoardSearch 🔎
It's been 6 months since @levelsio suggested including paid options to JobBoardSearch 🔎 made $6,763.85 💵 or $1,127.30 MMR 🥳
Built with a few PHP files & no front-end frameworks 🤩
A post sharing details of the journey 😀 and giving away 2 books 🎁
Some stats 📈
• 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ job boards listed
• 194K Pageviews 👀
• 72K Unique visitors 🚦
• 37K referrals ↗
• 57 payments 💲
• 560 subscribers ✍
• 25K job offer tweets on @jobboardsrch 🔥
• 250K impressions (2 months)
Where does traffic come from?
Marketing Channels:
- Schemas for Google for Jobs
- Programmatic SEO based on feature tags
- Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, LinkedIn
- Blog posts
Traffic:
1️⃣ Direct / Word of mouth
2️⃣ Twitter
3️⃣ Google
How it's happening?
The initial traction was thanks to a couple of Pieter Level's RTs of the below tweet that he did after sending me a DM and then after his suggestions, I rebranded it to http://jobboardsearch.com
Later, a Sunday morning before going to the beach and inspired by
@gvrizzo I posted about JobBoardSearch 🔎 on the subreddit r/InternetIsBeautiful/ and it went viral
Made a comment about JobBoardSearch 🔎 on an Indie Hackers 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 created a lot of awareness 🔥
Pieter in a DM suggested including paid options the last mid-April, I also included 3 monthly sponsored slots (Gold 🥇 Silver 🥈 Bronze🥉) and tweeted about it, and right away Phil from 4dayweek job board sponsored me and so many more:
- Remote Work Junkie
- Echojobs
- Jobsforweb3
- Dorseit
- The Impact Job
- Find Web 3
- Hirekite
- Web3 Hunters
- Jobs In Health Tech
- Remote3
Having a known job board as Dynamite Jobs (plus other 38) supporting with a job board listing upgrade (Highlight ✨ Custom Color🔴 Sticky 📌) is really amazing!
Also last month I received an offer of $20K 💰 for JobBoardSearch 🔎 which I declined, and even though I am not ready to sell it felt nice and I think is a good sign 😀
On top Gold 🥇 & Bronze 🥉 slots got sponsored for 3 months in a row!
How did I come up with the idea?
Inspired by Pieter Levels' not-perfect way of doing things, ship asap and improve later, and #buildinpublic
@dvassallo small bets, lurking to get ideas.
Made JobBoardSearch 🔎 MVP in 5 hours after reading Pieter's tweet about Stackoverflow Jobs shutting down
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 😀 like @arvidkahl does
I'm grateful for all that happened in the last 6 months so I would like to giveaway 🎁 2 books.
1️⃣ "Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business" by Arvid Kahl
2️⃣ "You Belong in Tech: How to Go from Zero Programming Knowledge to Hired" by Anna J McDougall
How to get any of the books?
Thanks for reading 🙏 and hope you are enjoying my journey!
PS: Any questions or feedback, shoot, always happy to help 😀
