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Looking good, I like the idea!

It's looking lean. Is it already making any revenue?

My daughter would love that, how does it works?

Thanks a lot!

Nice, I didn't think of this, yeah, I think it's a good idea but I'm looking something else, kinda a website, or community with folks sharing their experiences.

Each job board page list its own jobs.

(OP) Seems that HN cut of the text, so posting here is the comments:

I started JobBoardSearch about four years ago as a simple directory of niche job boards (A static HTML file with a dozen job boards)

One particular think I'm proud of: I didn't scrape these niche job boards and add them to a dabatabase. The 800+ job boards currently listed were submitted organically by their ownres.

Lots of their job boards provide a job feed (API, XML or RSS), I fetch those feeds and use the data in serveral different ways.

Each job board has its own page in JBS, where I show jobs from that board. I call this the "meta" part of the site.

The same feed powers a few other things I built:

- A subreddit bot that automatically post jobs every hour to the /r/jobboardsearch subreddit, which has grown to 26k memebers.

- A free telegram bot that sends personalized job alerts based on custom settings: keywords, locations, industry, candence, etc. The Telegram community (@jobboardsearch) passed 6k members.

- The main job search itself.

The interesting part is that the same data creates several distribution channels (Including AI citations that keeps growing).

Over time, I turned it into much more than a simple directory. I've added muitple revenue streams: featured listings, ads, affiliates, a Direcgtory Submission Service, a Marketplace (buy/sell job boards), and SEO audits.

I've also built several free tools for founders and job seekers. They are useful but also helps with SEO and drive organic traffic.

The design is NOT the strongest part of the project :D

I started it inspired by levelsio's approach of keeping things simple: PHP, raw CSS, and vanilla JavaScrip.

I've been tempted many times to rewrite it and make it much more polished but like this is something unique.

The moat isn't the design or tech. It's the traffic, SEO authority, and realationships with the founders submitting their niche job boards.

The site passed $100K in lifetime revenue, and still just me running it (with my wife helping with the newsletter).

Also I've been building it in public all this years on X/Twitter (@rrmdp) so all it's documented there.

HAppy to answer any questions about anything :)

Thanks for reading,

  Rod.

This is really sad to read :(

So many entrepreneurs (who can because software businesses) are leaving EU

A meta directory of niche job boards https://jobboardsearch.com

launched around 4 years ago, crossed $100k in LTR.

Building it in public on X: @rrmdp

X, I managed to cross 10k followers by sharing my learning and building in public. If I had to start again I would record myself.

Pardon my ignorance but...

why is OpenRouter worth 7 billion dollars?

I used to help for free in a forum of an open source booking engine, a British startup wanted to migrate into this software and heavily customize it for their own needs, they hired me and ended up working for them for 6 years

Use VPS, nowadays with the help of AI it's a lot easier to set everything up, you don't need Versel at all. And of course way cheaper

Spend as much time as possible with your kid. My daughter is 15 y/o, and even I was lucky to spend time with her because I started working remotely 16 years ago my only regret in life is not spending more time with her, one day you realize she is not a kid anymore and you don't understand how happened that fast.

The fact the DB is portable is amazing, I use it for all my projects now but didn't know about this JSON feature

Thanks for sharing! Is it the best?

I read it somewhere on LinkedIn, can't find it tho. The best way to know if by asking.

BTW great post, maybe you could ask again?

Thanks for sharing!

Working on https://JobBoardSearch.com a meta directory of job boards helping job site owners with their DR, visibility, jobs cross posting and promoting in general

Thanks for letting me know :)

Thanks, I'm fine with that, not looking for a backlink :)

A big NO

I use Stripe.

Cool!

There are no jobs at all

https://JobBoardSearch.com a meta directory of job boards

The Truly Free AI Resume Builder that also finds you jobs!

Think of it like an inverted job board → instead of searching for jobs, the jobs come to you.

The game looks cool!

Building an AI Built Games directory at https://aibuiltgames.com

It went mid viral https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1895169783747801435?t=WeA11H9Bafg...

70+ games in the list please submit yours!

It all started by chance when StackOverflow Jobs shut down

I learned about the news thanks to a Pieter Levels's tweet

Folks were asking about alternatives, so in 5 hours built a quick and ugly directory of job boards.

Then, posted under his tweet, he liked it and RTd, there were a lot of interest from job board founders and the traction started

I never though about monetizing but 2 months after launching it, Pieter sent me a DM saying that I should charge job boards to get listed and that I should try different tiers.

So I added paid plans:

- Sticky

- Highlight

- Custom Color

Also, sponsored slots:

- Gold

- Silver

- Bronze

I posted on Twitter and literally minutes later the first sponsor, "4 day week" job board acquired the Gold slot

A bit later the Silver one and the next morning the Bronze, it was a blast

Months later, a company (a job board software) reached out wanting to advertise, so I added two ad slots at the top of the website at $500 each

I kept improving it and building in public.

Added a meta feature, so, fetch jobs from job board with API or RSS feed, and then:

- List jobs within each job board listing

- List jobs in each job category page

- Crossposts on different channels (Telegram 7.3k members, Subreddit 7.3k members)

There are 419 job board listed and 196 in the waiting list, known folks in the industry recommend JobBoardSearch to promote their job boards.

A couple of weeks ago closed the best ad deal ever with an AI resumes company.

Last week lauched the JobBoardSearch Marketplace (buy and sell job boards)

Exactly two years later, April 2024, JobBoardSearch had its best month ever of $7,320

Feels unreal, I still can believe it!!!

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