RemoteBee.io
Remote job board for accountants
First off, awesome to finally be part of the open startup / build in public thing. Although this is just one person blogging about adding some code, it feels meaningful 😃
The problem: “My job is terrible”
I am a bean counter (accountant) by trade and I'm one of the lucky ones - I don't hate my job! Accountants have one of the lowest job satisfaction rates in the US. By talking with my peers over the years I'm not surprised - many are unhappy with their job, yet locked into it due to lifestyle creep.
Over the years it's clear there are three main reasons for the low job satisfaction:
- Face time
- Poor or outright mean superiors
- Lack of personal development options
It is my clear belief remote work solves for 1 and 2, and most of the time 3 as well from a better company culture more focused on doing things smarter.
The solution: A brand new thing
What I'm making has never been seen before! Especially not in the no-code world. It is a remote job board focused on bookkeepers and accountants.
This of course isn't groundbreaking but it's something that's deep within me. I want my friends and co-workers to have a better job and a better life.
Because accounting is fun! But terrible, 19th century workplaces often ruin the experience.
That's why I created Remotebee.
What I did
I built it! I spend the first two weeks building something in Bubble having a lot of fun along the way. As a no-coder it's incredible to have such an option.
It's still not easy and there is a significant learning curve but my gut tells me it's still a lot easier than:
Heroku and Firebase for hosting React and GSAP (for animations). Pretty standard to be honest (link).
The last two weeks of the month was spend seeding the board and I think I have a pretty good and efficient way to do that now.
In addition, I also set up integrations through Integromat to auto-post jobs to twitter and Facebook. Very happy I could figure that out 😃
Numbers, baby!
As any bean counter knows, numbers never lie.
So let's start with revenue:
Had there been any I'd be surprised!
Other numbers:
- Unique users: 87 (+infinite %. Best growth rate I'll ever have 💪💪)
- email subs: 16! (6 real, 9 friends and family lurkers, 1 me)
- Time spent by me: 35 hours, 14 minutes, 17 seconds.
Tools and expenditures
Bubble: $29
Integromat: $9
Clockify: $5
Clockify: Free
Ads (FB and twitter): $132
The month ahead
A marketplace lives and dies with traffic. April will be focused on:
- Seeding the job board
- Content that will be inspired by the style of marketing examples
- Cold outreach for promotion
- Experiments with ads on different platforms
Goals for month
- Get first non seeded job up (currently free)
- Get to 100 email subs
- Automate as much as possible!
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