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It's great to see that you're focusing in on specific a niche, since that's where most of the money is in the job board industry and its the quickest way for yo
by redmattred 14y ago
It's great to see that you're focusing in on specific a niche, since that's where most of the money is in the job board industry and its the quickest way for you to attract an audience. The fact that your job list is hand curated and you are zeroing in on remote work, which is important to many in the tech community, will go a long way towards building an audience.
Right now, your biggest strength is that you're on the front page of Hacker News and have a lot of eye balls from a very sought after, hard to recruit niche. Even if your traffic & mailing list numbers are not high, it doesn't matter since you control access to a very targeted audience.
I would stop developing and immediately start reaching out to companies with remote positions listed and succinctly explain:
- What Hacker News, and why its a big deal for them that you're on the front page
- Why this is timely (Yahoo's recent policy change)
- It costs $100 to post and they should post now before the buzz goes away. (This is nothing in contrast to a 20-30K agency fee, and the fact that this is time sensitive will help)
As you continue to build the site, I would look into using an existing turn key solution for running a job board. They're not built in the sexiest backend technologies, but you can likely do a lot to skin the front end and have a clean, modern web design like your site. A few to check out:
- http://www.jobamatic.com http://www.jobamatic.com
- http://jobboardsoftware.com/ http://jobboardsoftware.com/
- http://www.jobboardbuilder.com/ http://www.jobboardbuilder.com/
- tung92 14y agoIf you weren't against building site based on WordPress, a nice addition to the job board software list would be JobEngine: http://www.enginethemes.com/themes/jobengine http://www.enginethemes.com/themes/jobengine I think its design is quite more modern than most of the other players in the field. Here is the demo site: http://demo.enginethemes.com/jobengine http://demo.enginethemes.com/jobengine