We built a job board covering startups and SMBs, has 500+ jobs across 3 cities — honest feedback welcome
Not every job is posted on LinkedIn and Indeed
Not every company is open to pay huge price to promote in this platforms.
We thought why can’t we index jobs directly from careers pages on companies websites.
In our first version, we just had 10 companies. Upon adding 50+ more companies, we discovered how tons of opportunities lies outside of Linkedin and Indeed for job seekers.
Now we got active around active 500+ jobs in our databases just from cities in tamilnadu.
Idea is to add 5000+ jobs just from across indian companies, eventually helping job seekers to find next job faster
Job market is not bad but fragmented, monopolized by Linkedin and Indeed and making it difficult for job seekers.
We are trying to democratize job search
https://jobs.huntyourtribe.com/
Would love to hear your feedbacks!
Moving to other cities too.
Drop in cities or companies, you wish to be indexed and monitored
Feedback angle: your strongest line is not the job count, it is the “across 3 cities” specificity. I’ve seen the same with Kinetic Override — “Android automation” is too broad, but “Android 15+ no-root macro recorder for repeated tap/swipe loops” gets the right people much faster.
Yes. true. start with small scope with sharp message is the key.
Thanks
The idea makes sense. I'd focus heavily on being the best source for a specific region before expanding. 500 jobs in one area that are consistently updated is probably more valuable that 5,000 scattered jobs with stale listings.
Yes. rather than bloated with 10k jobs from other job board, we are strategically expanding regions without compromising data quality, creating local SEO and AEO values. Also the fundamental idea is bring value to customers. So we are promoting in local communities and helping them discover jobs.
More exciting things coming!
I run a nonprofit that's helped thousands of people land tech jobs, so here's the demand-side view. Job seekers don't have a "not enough jobs" problem, they have a "I can't tell which of these are real, fresh, and worth my time" problem. That is good news for you, because scraping career pages directly gives you something LinkedIn and Indeed are bad at: real, current postings straight from the source. Make that the whole pitch. "Jobs you won't find on LinkedIn or Indeed" is a sharper wedge than "democratize job search," which could mean anything. Two things to figure out early. Freshness is your core ops problem now, not coverage. A board full of dead links dies faster than one with fewer but verified-live jobs, so build the decay detection before you chase 5000 listings. Second, the money. Companies won't pay to list jobs that are free on their own site, so revenue is probably the seeker side or recruiters. Decide who pays before you scale the cost of indexing.
These are very true and valid feedbacks. This completely resonates with what we had in our mind for execution. rather than bloated with 10k jobs from other job board, we are strategically expanding regions without compromising data quality, creating local SEO and AEO values. Also the fundamental idea is bring value to customers. So we are promoting in local communities and helping them discover jobs.
Also we have ATS solution as well, which could benefit on employers side
https://huntyourtribe.com/
Solid niche to go after — the LinkedIn/Indeed gap for SMBs is real, especially for companies that can't justify the posting cost.
One thing worth testing as you scale past Tamil Nadu: are job seekers finding you, or are companies finding you first? That answer probably changes which side of the marketplace you should grow first.
Curious what's been the hardest part so far — getting companies to let you index their careers page, or getting job seekers to check a new platform instead of defaulting to LinkedIn?
Thanks for feedbacks. Yes. these platforms are charging hefty. Treating MNC, SMBs and startups under one umbrella and charging equally does not logically make sense.
I had first hand experience, when I was hiring last year for just 5 openings, Linkedin Sales guy himself said "Since you are a startup, you don't want to hear the numbers". I got realisation that these guys are not focusing on startups and SMBs.
We just now got started, now we are getting 1k view everyday. Lot of hard needle to be moved. but excited for challenges
Damn, that LinkedIn story says it all lol. I'm only 4 months into freelancing so I haven't hired anyone myself, but curious — what's been the biggest thing getting startups to actually switch over? Price, trust, or just not knowing alternatives exist?
First and foremost is distribution.
Indeed and Linkedin has largest traffic, brand and trust over decade.
Truth is they are giants, it foolish to compete against them.
We are just seeing how we can serve the underserved. This is hustle today.
We may or may no succeed. but excited for challenges
One thing I'd be careful about is assuming the opportunity and the discovery are necessarily the same thing.
Finding jobs that aren't visible on LinkedIn is clearly valuable.
The harder question is what that actually proves about where the market gap exists.
This whole thing started,
Due to recent layoff in Chennai in famous SAAS companies, many folks reachout to us "Its becoming very difficult for us to discover jobs". We did quick research and discovered many jobs are lying idle in companies careers pages, came up with idea to help job seekers.
Jobseekers are finding MNC and mid enterprises companies jobs only in the top of Linkedin list and while navigated getting limits exhausted with search and pushed to pay
As of now, we are focussing on providing value to job seekers. Market gap we haven't thought through , we will figure out in coming days. Excited for upcoming challenges.
Parallely we got a ATS tools for startups and SMBs, https://huntyourtribe.com which some startups and SMBs are already using