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18-year old launches startup with $500

12 points by rockstar9 18y ago

bootload 18y ago
"... InternshipIN allows employers to make job posts, while also crawling other job boards, such as SimplyHired, for internship-specific listings ..." While the site is small you might get away with trawling other sites. Scraping will show up on the logs of other sites & could be blocked. What is another way to get "intern" job ads?
- rwebb 18y ago
  keyword "intern" + http://www.jobamatic.com/a/jbb-static/home http://www.jobamatic.com/a/jbb-static/home
- ig1 18y ago
  I imagine SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface...
  - bootload 18y ago
    "... SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface ..." Didn't know they had an interface. Wonder why they didn't try this or do you think the Journo misunderstood their technology?
- sarahsill 18y ago
  Go to www.quarterlife.com/intern and ask THE INTERN QUEEEN, Lauren Berger. The difference is she has all original internship postings and doesn't use Monster - thank goodness!
stillmotion 18y ago
Hardly news. SchoolRack.com is built by two 18 year-olds.
truebosko 18y ago
This is nice and all but it's nothing special. Hey look, I made a site too, but I did it for $0, and it took me two weeks as well. It's on the same scale as this. Is my site a startup? No, it's just a fun project.
- bluelu 18y ago
  But does your site also display an empty page (like http://www.internshipin.com/ http://www.internshipin.com/) when you visit your site? Probably not!
- blurry 18y ago
  I would go farther and say that it's quite a bit worse than "nothing special". It's a no-value added filter that sits atop SimplyHired.com. Much like those spam sites that harvest google adwords, its sole purpose is to kidnap traffic. Recycling the same tired content over and over does nothing but pollute search space. And to your point @bluelu you'd think they would at least bother to configure the site to serve from both site.com and www.site.com but I guess that's too much effort for the ultimately lazy.
mstefff 18y ago
Yeah I'm sick of this nonsense. I launched two sites by now, each for zip, and I'm 21. Enough whining.
jaytee_clone 18y ago
True. It's nothing special. However, I do like the simple design, especially the filter options that reflect the interests of the students. Targeting niche audience might actually get them somewhere. Digging on the site a little bit deeper, I realize all of the jobs are from big companies. This is hardly helping start-ups or students who want to start one. Why don't they just build a student entrepreneur networking site? I see a lot more potential in that.
louislouis 18y ago
I started a wordpress blog. Hi 5!
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12 points by rockstar9 18y ago

"... InternshipIN allows employers to make job posts, while also crawling other job boards, such as SimplyHired, for internship-specific listings ..." While the site is small you might get away with trawling other sites. Scraping will show up on the logs of other sites & could be blocked. What is another way to get "intern" job ads?

rwebb 18y ago
keyword "intern" + http://www.jobamatic.com/a/jbb-static/home http://www.jobamatic.com/a/jbb-static/home
ig1 18y ago
I imagine SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface...
- bootload 18y ago
  "... SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface ..." Didn't know they had an interface. Wonder why they didn't try this or do you think the Journo misunderstood their technology?
sarahsill 18y ago
Go to www.quarterlife.com/intern and ask THE INTERN QUEEEN, Lauren Berger. The difference is she has all original internship postings and doesn't use Monster - thank goodness!

stillmotion 18y ago

Hardly news. SchoolRack.com is built by two 18 year-olds.

truebosko 18y ago

This is nice and all but it's nothing special. Hey look, I made a site too, but I did it for $0, and it took me two weeks as well. It's on the same scale as this. Is my site a startup? No, it's just a fun project.

bluelu 18y ago
But does your site also display an empty page (like http://www.internshipin.com/ http://www.internshipin.com/) when you visit your site? Probably not!
blurry 18y ago
I would go farther and say that it's quite a bit worse than "nothing special". It's a no-value added filter that sits atop SimplyHired.com. Much like those spam sites that harvest google adwords, its sole purpose is to kidnap traffic. Recycling the same tired content over and over does nothing but pollute search space. And to your point @bluelu you'd think they would at least bother to configure the site to serve from both site.com and www.site.com but I guess that's too much effort for the ultimately lazy.

mstefff 18y ago

Yeah I'm sick of this nonsense. I launched two sites by now, each for zip, and I'm 21. Enough whining.

jaytee_clone 18y ago

True. It's nothing special. However, I do like the simple design, especially the filter options that reflect the interests of the students. Targeting niche audience might actually get them somewhere. Digging on the site a little bit deeper, I realize all of the jobs are from big companies. This is hardly helping start-ups or students who want to start one. Why don't they just build a student entrepreneur networking site? I see a lot more potential in that.

louislouis 18y ago

I started a wordpress blog. Hi 5!

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