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Job search. There are a ton of competitors in this space, established and startup, but so far its all crap. I've been looking for a new job recently and I'm com

by geuis 18y ago

Job search. There are a ton of competitors in this space, established and startup, but so far its all crap. I've been looking for a new job recently and I'm completely dissatisfied with everything that's out there. Craigslist is still probably the best resource for finding tech jobs, at least in San Francisco but there has to be a better way. A couple of ideas have popped into my head recently about ways to really shake this area up and to make it into a profitable business to start.

josefresco 18y ago
Take the Markus Frind route. Go free and kick ass.
- tontoa4 18y ago
  With adblock and ad sales down the paid model seems more palatable.
auston 18y ago
Have you seen indeed.com?
- bemmu 18y ago
  Wow, Quantcast/Compete estimate their monthly users to be 6-9 million. Their AdSense account must be quite healthy. I wonder how they got granted access to the data from the first few sites they index.
  - bemmu 18y ago
    To answer my own question, of course job listing sites want their sites to be discoverable. At least monster.com doesn't even have a robots.txt file.
  - webwright 18y ago
    Yaw I was in the jobs industry. There's simplyhired.com and jobster.com ... 6-9 million uniques isn't really worth the funding any of them received, I don't think. They didn't ask permission for the data any more than Google did. Scrape/index/refresh/repeat.
    - natrius 18y ago
      Some links from indeed have affiliate IDs in them, so there are definitely some partnerships involved for some of their sources.
    - bemmu 18y ago
      CPM for a job site must be something really nice, at least $5. Perhaps they have around 50M pageviews per month, so that would make $250,000 / month. Maybe valuation should be about $15M? Indeed got $5M in funding, so that seems fine. Simplyhired got $17M, that does seem on the high side.
- coglethorpe 18y ago
  That's a pretty good site. I was thinking of something similar, to be honest. Seeing a competitor like that makes me pause. Their traffic numbers look good, but still fall behind sites like CareerBuilder, and, of course, Monster. I do note a recent spike in traffic numbers. Thanks, economy! Hashjobs.com is a pretty cute rails app one guy threw together, I assume to show his Rails chops rather than as a startup. It's not mine, but was interesting enough to mention. http://jobfeedr.com/ http://jobfeedr.com/ is another interesting one, I think I heard of it here. It's a modified WP blog...

by geuis 18y ago

josefresco 18y ago

Take the Markus Frind route. Go free and kick ass.

tontoa4 18y ago
With adblock and ad sales down the paid model seems more palatable.

auston 18y ago

Have you seen indeed.com?

bemmu 18y ago
Wow, Quantcast/Compete estimate their monthly users to be 6-9 million. Their AdSense account must be quite healthy. I wonder how they got granted access to the data from the first few sites they index.
- bemmu 18y ago
  To answer my own question, of course job listing sites want their sites to be discoverable. At least monster.com doesn't even have a robots.txt file.
- webwright 18y ago
  Yaw I was in the jobs industry. There's simplyhired.com and jobster.com ... 6-9 million uniques isn't really worth the funding any of them received, I don't think. They didn't ask permission for the data any more than Google did. Scrape/index/refresh/repeat.
  - natrius 18y ago
    Some links from indeed have affiliate IDs in them, so there are definitely some partnerships involved for some of their sources.
  - bemmu 18y ago
    CPM for a job site must be something really nice, at least $5. Perhaps they have around 50M pageviews per month, so that would make $250,000 / month. Maybe valuation should be about $15M? Indeed got $5M in funding, so that seems fine. Simplyhired got $17M, that does seem on the high side.
coglethorpe 18y ago
That's a pretty good site. I was thinking of something similar, to be honest. Seeing a competitor like that makes me pause. Their traffic numbers look good, but still fall behind sites like CareerBuilder, and, of course, Monster. I do note a recent spike in traffic numbers. Thanks, economy! Hashjobs.com is a pretty cute rails app one guy threw together, I assume to show his Rails chops rather than as a startup. It's not mine, but was interesting enough to mention. http://jobfeedr.com/ http://jobfeedr.com/ is another interesting one, I think I heard of it here. It's a modified WP blog...