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
A one-week feature took two months, mostly spent keeping three systems in sync
the 'index straight from company career pages' bit is the genuinely interesting part, that's inventory linkedin doesn't have. honest feedback since you asked, i wouldn't sweat the job count. staleness is the killer, scraped listings rot fast (filled roles, dead links) and a board kinda lives or dies on whether they're real. are you re-checking freshness on a cycle, or just piling on new ones? and why tamilnadu, market you know or just where you started?
Agreed. Not jobs counts. but qualities of jobs. We already picked niches as startups, SMBs in tech, no MNC and also specific cities. As of now, we are reading posted at in careers pages and our jobs would remain active for only 45 days. Also we are crawling everyday to check if the openings are still active. We got multiple strategies in place t fight the staleness of jobs and yeah, our system is improving day by day.
For tamilnadu, We wanted to start from underserved places. Dumping 10k startups from bangalore easy to do and will create more noise. We are focusing more on qualites of companies. So smarter is to start from underserved places like Tamilnadu. No worries, in 2 months we will cover more cities in india.
500 jobs is a solid start.
My biggest question wouldn't be about the number of listings though.
Why would a candidate use this instead of Wellfound, LinkedIn, or dozens of other job boards?
Job boards usually win when they have either:
The clearer that differentiation is, the easier growth becomes.
Yes.
We don't want to be broad dump of jobs from generic job boards.
We have fixed our niche, guard rails to handle stale jobs and moving forward in this exciting journey
The careers-page-only approach is interesting.
In job boards, trust in the listings is often more valuable than the size of the database.
yes. very true! thats why we are not dumping 10k jobs and saying we have build a job board with X jobs. we are gradually increasing our datasset with quality and expanding our boundries
Hi, the fragmentation problem is real and underserved — most job boards optimize for enterprise clients, not for the candidates who'd benefit most from seeing what smaller companies actually have open.
One honest feedback point: the value proposition of "jobs not on LinkedIn" needs to be the first thing a visitor sees, not something they discover by browsing. If that's your edge, lead with it explicitly.
Good start. Curious how you're handling freshness — careers pages go stale fast.
Thanks for the feedbacks. Yes. fragmentation is the real problem.
Discovering jobs is the first steps in every job seekers user flows.
Most people are building product, "hiring is broken, I am building ATS".
Because it is easy build, but real problem is how do you reach relevant job seekers with your job posting and how job seekers can find you
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/
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
That's actually the part I'd be most curious about.
Sometimes a product starts by solving an obvious problem for users and only later discovers where the business opportunity actually sits.
Those can end up being the same thing.
They can also end up in very different places.
Interesting to see how that evolves from here.
Yes. we have to soon find the business model else it dies.
Some techies are not serious about business model and end up rushing at last moment.
We are aware from day 1 about " We should crack business model soon".
Lets see how it goes. Hopefully we will have some answers in 2 month.
Once we got answers, first thing I will do is update this thread :)
That's fair.
The reason I find these situations interesting is that the first successful business model often ends up answering a slightly different question than the one that originally got users through the door.
Sometimes that's a natural evolution.
Sometimes it's a signal that the real opportunity was sitting somewhere adjacent all along.
I'll be curious to see what answer you arrive at in a couple of months.
Yes. even we are curious to see, where it takes us :)
Possibly.
I'd just be careful that "finding the business model" can sometimes sound like a monetization problem when the harder question is what role the product is actually ending up playing in the market.
Those aren't always the same thing.
That's usually where things start getting interesting.
Yes. What value it provides to customers. wiring a business model around it would make more sense and more sustainable
Appreciate it.
For some reason the LinkedIn link isn't opening properly on my side.
Feel free to send me a connection request instead:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-y-0163b0278/
I'd be happy to continue the conversation there.
Exactly.
The reason I find these situations interesting is that founders often think they're searching for a business model when they're actually still discovering what job the market is hiring the product to do.
Those questions eventually connect.
But not always in the order people expect.
What's the best email to reach you on?
I'd be curious to continue the conversation there.
we can connect here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathir-valavan-04828963/
https://x.com/huntyourtribe
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