DC Tech People
Helping people in the DC area tech space.
In the hero section above the job board, I put a email signup form with a CTA of "We include the best available jobs in our weekly newsletter.".
Right now, the weekly email is a roundup of some DC tech stories (companies raising money, launching products, etc.) as well as new jobs from the job board, and a short note about my progress on DC Tech People.
I launched the job board (https://www.dctechpeople.com/still-hiring-dc) with a pay-what-you-want model.
This was so that as many jobs as possible would get posted, to help job seekers.
A decent number of companies added jobs for free, and on April 14th, just 2 weeks after launching the job board, a company paid $30 to post.
Turning on a minimum of $25 to post soon.
Seeing lots of people get laid off because of COVID-19, I accelerated my plans to develop products that serve the DC area tech community.
I've thought about how great of a business job boards can be for years, and now saw a need for someone to aggregate what jobs are still available.
So, I cloned @coreyhaines Webflow job board template (thanks Corey!) to get one up and running quickly.
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Awesome! Congrats :)
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Thanks again.
Btw, keep running into a problem I wonder if you've solved.
When you pipe a job into the Webflow CMS, through Zapier or Parabola, does your rich text field for the body of the job description get mashed into one solid block of text (with no spacing)?
It does for me, so for each job I have to go in and manually copy and paste from the original job description and then it'll look right.
Does the job description (piped in through Zapier) format correctly for you as a rich text field?
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I pipe it into the CMS from the Typeform directly, but there are still similar issues.
I can’t tell if it’s Webflow’s rich text editor that’s inflexible or just the nature of sending a wall of text through.
I usually have to manually at least check each post before publishing.
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Gotcha. I'll keep poking around and will shoot you a line if I figure out a solution.
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@bdawson If you want to cut down on your cost of Webflow, you may try https://nocodesheets.carrd.co/
This works with Google Sheets.
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I know you didn't ask for feedback, but:
-Hard to put trust in a business that is hosted on a .carrd.co subdomain. Carrd is like $20/year, so either your business can't spend the money or you didn't think it was important. Either way, it'd be scary to trust a business in that situation with something as important as my website. If you can't afford Carrd Premium, maybe sell something less mission-critical so that trust factor isn't such a barrier.
-Your site played sound automatically - I closed it as soon as I could.
Best of luck going forward.
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To start with, I wanted to interview people who had been successful, in one way or another, in the DC tech community.
The first thing to do was build a site to show some semblance of legitimacy, and to start building an email list.
I quickly put together the site in Webflow.
In February, several dormant ideas came together to form the basis for DC Tech People.
-I wanted to know more about #dctech
-I saw the success of @petecodes and @patwalls in running a content site.
-I spent the first 3 years of my career in recruiting
All this led me to the inkling of an idea. A site where I would share stories of people in DC tech who got their dream jobs, learned to code, or built cool products/companies.
By doing so, I'd build relationships with people in the area, and start to build an "audience".
The plan was to start there, and then figure out what products would help the people I'd started to get to know.
I believed this niche (motivated tech professionals in the DC area) would be something I could carve out a useful, and profitable, product for.
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