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I personally dislike the idea of (further) fragmenting things like job boards (or real estate listings, or travel fares, etc.) where breadth is critical. How is this better than a general-purpose job board with an option to filter by remote-friendliness? Unless people are willing to potentially miss out on listings that don't happen to be on this particular board, this is just one more addition to a long list of places the user has to keep track of if they are job-hunting.

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I know ... another example of this: http://xkcd.com/927/.

The hope is that, eventually, this would be a place where we could aggregate the remote jobs featured at the various job boards (at least, the major ones: Authentic Jobs, GitHub, 37signals, Stack Overflow) in one place.

That's what http://jobmote.com/ does currently.

Sorry. Should have been clearer. What jobmote does (and I wasn't aware of them before I built Remojobo) is actually aggregate the content. All we'd ever do would be to link to Authentic Jobs et al. My interest isn't in pulling traffic away from the existing boards; just helping people find the remote jobs more easily. And, if companies want to highlight their posts on Remojobo by making their posts "featured", that's great, too.

That's true in many ways and partly explains why Indeed.com (aggregation) is the largest source of online hires. The question of do 'niche job boards' have a future is interesting and I would argue yes (in the same way specialty stores still have a future).

I do see the value in true "niche" boards based around a community (HN, StackOverflow, a subreddit, whatever) since it's a way of people within the confines of that community to connect with one another. This board doesn't even seem to offer that, though; It's just based around one particular hard attribute a job listing could have. (Not that I'm trying to contradict anything you've said.)

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