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wow, thanks for looking it up. so, in a nutshell: i hate how recruiters make 5 grand a hire and employers constantly struggle to find talent. so i built a site

wow, thanks for looking it up. so, in a nutshell: i hate how recruiters make 5 grand a hire and employers constantly struggle to find talent. so i built a site that focused on being hired/hire through your skill graph. i hate job boards, i hate monster, i hate recruiter fees - guess what, after a while, i had to add a job board, and i offered recruiting services and i made 5k a pop. the site itself produced over 2k active users, but that was it. companies asked me to charge for job board listings, not for my self-recruiting credits. i just couldn't disrupt an industry that keeps using advertising little entries in long lists and making lots of cash with it. as well as recruiters, like real estate agents, another industry that needs to be redone on the social web better. i started fruij.com as a side/weekend project and people came in from everywhere, i had no plan, no direction, no marketing, but it kept making me money. people just bought pro accounts without me telling them why it's important to have one. they just flocked to it. so that was a bit of an eye opener.

geekfactor 14y ago
Why not build on fruji vs starting anew? How long ago did you launch it? What kind of growth could you see if you focused on it?
- mittermayr 14y ago
  so fruji is interesting. everytime i shut it down (database issues, twitter api changes, etc.) and turn it back on, people start flocking to it immediately after, and it grows from 10 signups a day to 150 a day quickly. that's awesome. payments are coming in as well, drafting new (more expensive) account types for corporate users looking good and so forth. but i've had a couple of really popular a-listers sign up, won't name them here, but you all know them. and after i had to tell the 5th over 1M+ follower person that it'll take more than a few days to scan their account (run analysis) based on twitter's api rate limits, it just feels terrible. i thought i'd just lock out people with accounts over 500k (can you imagine?!), it'd make a lot of things easier. twitter has been very responsive and i've been able to submit a couple of bugs with them successfully. but i'm really worried this one gets shut down and i do not even have the tiniest chance of doing anything about it. i'll keep going with it. but it just runs all by itself now. a very smart, distributed system, i just receive payment notifications. edit: one thing about twitter: i can not spend any of the payments i receive. if twitter shuts me down tomorrow (they likely won't), i have a lot of people who paid me for a yearly account and it's money i need to refund. so that's locked up credit at this point until the year expires.

geekfactor 14y ago

Why not build on fruji vs starting anew? How long ago did you launch it? What kind of growth could you see if you focused on it?

mittermayr 14y ago
so fruji is interesting. everytime i shut it down (database issues, twitter api changes, etc.) and turn it back on, people start flocking to it immediately after, and it grows from 10 signups a day to 150 a day quickly. that's awesome. payments are coming in as well, drafting new (more expensive) account types for corporate users looking good and so forth. but i've had a couple of really popular a-listers sign up, won't name them here, but you all know them. and after i had to tell the 5th over 1M+ follower person that it'll take more than a few days to scan their account (run analysis) based on twitter's api rate limits, it just feels terrible. i thought i'd just lock out people with accounts over 500k (can you imagine?!), it'd make a lot of things easier. twitter has been very responsive and i've been able to submit a couple of bugs with them successfully. but i'm really worried this one gets shut down and i do not even have the tiniest chance of doing anything about it. i'll keep going with it. but it just runs all by itself now. a very smart, distributed system, i just receive payment notifications. edit: one thing about twitter: i can not spend any of the payments i receive. if twitter shuts me down tomorrow (they likely won't), i have a lot of people who paid me for a yearly account and it's money i need to refund. so that's locked up credit at this point until the year expires.