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Validating a Job Board for Indie Hackers with Founder Experience

One can acquire a lot of skills while indie hacking: user interviews, product discovery, development, and even a bit of B2B sales. In fact, IndieHackers have that sort of profile that would thrive in startups and product roles.

But it's not easy to go back to a "traditional" job. For starters, the applicant tracking systems are all trained to look for keywords and may simply ignore our resumes for not having the right job title.

So the idea is a job board for people with founder/indiehacker experience to find jobs that value them.

Here are the things I have to validate:

  1. Enough founders find themselves having to go back to a "regular" job
  2. These former founders struggle to get offers
  3. Enough companies look for founder experience when filling a position

If all those things are true, then the idea has some legs. If any of them isn't, then the idea is probably DoA.

In order to validate those assumptions, I bought the https://founder-hire.com domain. I plan to launch an ad on Reddit with a 100 USD budget. If I get a 5% conversion to a waiting list, I move forward. If not, I ditch the idea.

Okay, so here's where I need help. I'm notoriously bad at creating ad content. But because it's Reddit, I figured out I could create memes instead!

So, I created these 3 memes:

What do you think? Which one should I go with ("none of them" is also an option). Would you feel irritated when seeing an ad like this or will you chuckle at it?

edit: crud the images weren't public before! (fixed)

posted to Icon for group Ideas and Validation
Ideas and Validation
on March 6, 2023
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    I like the first one ("Founder experience? So hot right now")

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