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Got to 200 subscribers

So remoteweekly.cc got to 200 email subscribers this week, yay! 🥳

Some numbers:

  • Sent 322 personalized emails
  • Delivered 98.14%
  • Open rate 125.47%
  • Click rate 72.05%
  • Zero spam reports

What's new:

  • You can now choose how many job offers you get in one email (few, couple, a lot)
  • About one million tiny bugfixes

What's planned:

  • LinkedIn / Github login so people don't have to fill in their skills
  • Live preview of the email for impatient users
  • /open page with all the stats live and public
  • Opt-in matching system for subscribers and headhunters
  • Featured job posts

Follow Remote Weekly journey here on Indie Hackers or on Twitter.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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    I also subscribed to your list. It sounds like what I have been looking for recently.

    Just to comment on my experience, after selecting skills I spent a while looking for a button to continue or to save what I selected. I had seen the notification that my selections were saved automatically but I still looked for a button to click. It might be very basic but I finished feeling slightly unsettled and with a nagging feeling that the sign up process was incomplete.

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      Thanks for the subscribe and feedback! I've just updated the "onboarding" a bit by adding Next button so it's more clear what to do next.

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    Well you convinced me to sign up for weekly emails. :D

    However, for step #3, I received an email that has a link to confirm my email address, but the link goes to http:// - Looks like I can't confirm my email address and complete the signup. 🤔

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      Damn, will investigate! Do you mean the protocol itself or was the whole confirmation link just http://?

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        The whole confirmation link is simply "http://"

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    I subscribed as well. Great to see your victory of 200 subscribers! congrats and all the best

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    Post a job for $199 ?
    Is that a mistake? Is it suppose to be $1.99?

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      It costs a lot to post a job. That's actually less money to post a job than most places.

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        WOW... sry, im really not into "posting jobs" kind of thing... never new that posting a job would a "Luxury" purchase. Thanks for letting me know I'm gonna keep my self away from those kind of websites.

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          If you're looking for a job, then the site and similar sites to it are free.

          If you're looking to hire people, then that's where the cost comes in. A $200 - $400 purchase to hire the best talent is not a luxury, but the average and expected cost of doing business. To spend less would be to endanger yourself and your company by increasing the chances that you'd hire less talented people and, in the long run, cost yourself many, many thousands of dollars.

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            I am actually experimenting with the pricing a bit; for each session, random value from [$99, $199, $299] is chosen.

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    Nice! @petrnagy - what did you use for your email campaigns?

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      Thanks! I'm using Sendgrid

  6. 1

    Cool milestone. What do you think about publishing your journey at hackernoon.com I'm sure tech community will adore it. and it can be a cool way to promote your project. just don't be over promotional and editors will publish your story

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      Never thought about that thb as I was unsure how "hackery" the product is hehe.

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        don't worry :) remote work is huge part of stories at hackernoon. just give it a shot.
        Check this article for example: https://hackernoon.com/the-stress-of-remote-working-38be5bdcf4da

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    yay..! I just signed up..

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      Thanks! Did you have any issues with the "onboarding" process?

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    what a milestone!

    what I want you to do is to invest in inbound marketing. Because it will help you in a lot of ways like improving your search engine ranks and establishing your website as an authority in the space.

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      Will work on that during second (current) iteration. Thank you!

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      Asking the user to select the kind of job they want might help give the sense that you have all kinds of remote jobs available

      Yes that's what happens right after you subscribe, but apparently I need to make it more obvious that it's really personalized.

      Thank you!

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