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Ask HN: Your thoughts about a job hunting startup
Hi HN,
I would like to know your thoughts about my new startup idea. It is a job hunting / search site.
A little background:
It would operate in a rather small country, about 2 million people (where I happen to live).
The reason I'm interested in building that kind of startup is because the competition is small. Only 2 real competitors. And I genuinely believe I have unique ideas, which should give me that should give me an advantage. I have talked with a lot of people who have been looking for a job and I think I have a solution for the problems they are facing with the competitors. I'm not here asking to validate my idea, rather than ask you opinion and some questions.
My question is that how should handle the beginning. It's a bit of a egg/chicken problem, because in order to get people who are looking for jobs, I need job advertisements and vice-versa.
A solution would be copy some amount of job advertisements from competitive sites.
But is it legal? Or ethical? Your thoughts and opinions.
And maybe someone has any advice to give me regarding my start-up, what to avoid, should I even start it all? Has anyone been in that kind of business maybe to share some of his/her experience.
The main reason I'm so interested in the idea is because as I stated above I truly believe I have good ideas to make job hunting more pleasent for job seekers and for the people who are looking to hire.
Thank you in advance.
- paulhauggis 15y ago"But is it legal? Or ethical? Your thoughts and opinions." The way I see it, Sometimes you have to break the rules a little bit to succeed as a small startup. "It is a job hunting / search site." There are a million job search sites. My advice is to pick a niche.
- younghacker 15y agoI believe the size of my country is niche already :)