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So far, so good. I quit in July with nothing else lined up. I took about two months off where I was just reading and taking care of our new puppy. I've started

So far, so good. I quit in July with nothing else lined up. I took about two months off where I was just reading and taking care of our new puppy. I've started a job board for FPGA/RTL engineers at www.rtljobs.com. The mailing list is growing at an appreciable clip and paid postings should be live early in the new year. I've also been doing some electronics consulting work. Not much. Only about 2-3 hours a day. I'm making about half as much as I was at my job, but with functionally no stress.

jnguyen64 5y ago
Pretty cool website!! I'm working on a job board as well (completely un-related field) and would love any early insights you got as far as gaining traction and building up a mailing list. Also, for the filters, could you make it so that when a user clicks outside of the filter choices, it closes the menu that pops up?
- cushychicken 5y ago
  I'm still figuring out how to build traction. I think the things I'd recommend at an early stage are: 1) get a mailing list signup (Mailchimp, ConvertKit, whatever) into your page STAT. Don't miss out on email signups because you think your page isn't "good enough". Let your users tell you whether or not your site is good enough - they will sign up if it is. I got on the frontpage of a relevant subreddit and probably missed 10-20 email signups as a result. 2) don't be afraid to talk about your project online, a lot. Tweet about it, blog about it, post to Reddit as much as you feasibly can. I've been trying to fix that filter thing for weeks. Don't know the answer lol. Probably going to have to wait until I finish some backend junk and start transferring the frontend over to a React or Vue frontend.