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All I can say is that the pricing is egregiously high. At that point, it becomes more lucrative to simply develop one's own board.

by ruswick 14y ago

readme 14y ago
You must be pretty cheap if you can develop a job board of your own for less than they are charging. For a business plan, it's $99/mo. To develop a quality job board, you're looking at at least 20-40 hours of work. What is your hourly rate? Now factor in the cost of hosting and managing the job board. Yep, the pricing seems about right to me.
- cmalpeli 14y ago
  Thanks. Also keep in mind one of the largest competitors in the space (Jobamatic) takes 50% of your job posting revenues. So selling one $99 job listing is the same as the low end $49/mo plan. Have any degree of success and you are quickly paying 100s (or more) per month. Step up to "enterprise" solutions and you are paying 1000s per month...
- ruswick 14y ago
  My general rate is $50/hour. However, I'm a full-time student and as such I have very little capacity for employment and have a difficult time locating projects at all, so my time has effectively no intrinsic value. At best, I made what equated to $3.75/hour over the course of the summer. Undertaking personal projects yields far more value than purchasing a solution when one's time is more or less devoid of monetary value and one's net worth is less than a thousand dolars with unsteady and extremely limited income that arrives in disjunct and infrequent chunks. I'd love to be in a position to drop thousands of dollars each year on sass. Unfortunately, such options are far beyond my means.
  - nestlequ1k 14y ago
    Sounds like this solution is not for you. That's ok, even if it were free, you'd probably still want to build your own (if you even have a need to host a job board).
noodle 14y ago
In my experience, I've talked to people who have paid many thousands of dollars for mediocre-at-best job board software. You probably overestimate the prospective market's capabilities and/or underestimate their willingness to pay.

All I can say is that the pricing is egregiously high. At that point, it becomes more lucrative to simply develop one's own board.

by ruswick 14y ago

All I can say is that the pricing is egregiously high. At that point, it becomes more lucrative to simply develop one's own board.

readme 14y ago

You must be pretty cheap if you can develop a job board of your own for less than they are charging. For a business plan, it's $99/mo. To develop a quality job board, you're looking at at least 20-40 hours of work. What is your hourly rate? Now factor in the cost of hosting and managing the job board. Yep, the pricing seems about right to me.

cmalpeli 14y ago
Thanks. Also keep in mind one of the largest competitors in the space (Jobamatic) takes 50% of your job posting revenues. So selling one $99 job listing is the same as the low end $49/mo plan. Have any degree of success and you are quickly paying 100s (or more) per month. Step up to "enterprise" solutions and you are paying 1000s per month...
ruswick 14y ago
My general rate is $50/hour. However, I'm a full-time student and as such I have very little capacity for employment and have a difficult time locating projects at all, so my time has effectively no intrinsic value. At best, I made what equated to $3.75/hour over the course of the summer. Undertaking personal projects yields far more value than purchasing a solution when one's time is more or less devoid of monetary value and one's net worth is less than a thousand dolars with unsteady and extremely limited income that arrives in disjunct and infrequent chunks. I'd love to be in a position to drop thousands of dollars each year on sass. Unfortunately, such options are far beyond my means.
- nestlequ1k 14y ago
  Sounds like this solution is not for you. That's ok, even if it were free, you'd probably still want to build your own (if you even have a need to host a job board).

noodle 14y ago

In my experience, I've talked to people who have paid many thousands of dollars for mediocre-at-best job board software. You probably overestimate the prospective market's capabilities and/or underestimate their willingness to pay.