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Congrats on the traction. Somewhat unrelated, but it seems a lot of bootstrapped success stories are job boards.

• kubb 4y ago
  We (developers) are the product.
• etdev 4y ago
  Thanks! Yeah, the space has gotten pretty crowded but it can still work really well if you niche down imo. And I niched down hard.
• Varqu 4y ago
  Yes, it's probably because this is a proven business model and if you niche-down enough, you will be able to serve the audience better than the bigger competitors. The biggest problem though is still bootstrapping the demand side (job seekers) of the platform (supply side is fairly easy, as you can even handpick the initial jobs). We (https://swissdevjobs.ch https://swissdevjobs.ch & https://devitjobs.uk https://devitjobs.uk) started with articles how to migrate from other countries to find a job in Switzerland / UK and at some point the organic traffic picked up (but it also took years, as in the case of japan-dev).
  • vsareto 4y ago
    I guess an aggregator of these sites would be pretty handy. Especially if it had a narrative feature to ask what the user wanted to do, then pointed you to the niche job site.
    • solarmist 4y ago
      Probably not. I can't imagine how it would be better than just a list of sites like that.
• namdnay 4y ago
  when there's a gold rush, there are a lot of successful hardware stores :)