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Hi everyone - this is my first show HN post. http://www.jobboard.io http://www.jobboard.io is a platform for operating niche job boards that I've bootstrapped
by cmalpeli 14y ago
Hi everyone - this is my first show HN post.
http://www.jobboard.io http://www.jobboard.io is a platform for operating niche job boards that I've bootstrapped as a side project over the last 6 months or so.
My reason for doing so was two-fold:
1. I've run several niche job boards for quite a while, some of them bringing in decent revenue. The 3rd party platform I was using was one where I had to give up 50% of the revenues - not a tenable situation once I began to show signs of success. Since I needed to build something that would support multiple job board sites - I figured why not turn it into a SaaS offering as well. One that does not take a rev share, and charges a flat fixed amount.
2. I wanted to teach myself Ruby on Rails. It's ROR/Heroku/Bootstrap based.
I've been writing code professionally since '99, starting out w/ classic ASP and then moving to .NET. Over my career i've moved into higher and higher management positions (now a VP of Tech @ a media co), and thus moved further and further away from actually building things. This has been a great outlet for me - and allowed me to stay more current and up to date on the technical side of things.
Appreciate any and all feedback. It's been quite a learning experience....
- mattdeboard 14y agoHow do you feel about the .jobs TLD?
- cmalpeli 14y agoKinda meh, I suppose. I suspect the primary perceived benefit was for SEO, and with Google Exact Match Domain penalty/update - that benefit is gone.
- mattdeboard 14y agoWow that's really interesting. My previous employer was a "middle man" of sorts for .jobs domains (I can't remember the word; not a tld manager but something else. They reserve .jobs domains for other people). Using ".jobs" was in fact an SEO strategy, so you see domains like indiana.jobs, django.jobs, etc., which both pull from the same pool of jobs, but filter based on the specific domain.
- readme 14y agoVery nice. I wanted to make some niche job boards but you just killed my dreams. Not a problem though, I have a big list of other ideas people will probably implement before me. Best of luck on this one! I think this is definitely a lucrative idea.
- cmalpeli 14y agoThanks ;) Sign up for the service - would be happy to give you an extra free month if you still want to run the job boards. email me: info at jobboard.io