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Comment by stanislavb | Hacker News Reader

https://99remotejobs.com a job board focused on remote jobs. I have promoted it on both LiHunt (software dev audience) and SaaSHub; however that didn’t help. Not a single sale :)

As a result, I’ve decided to make it FREE and open source the code. Hopefully in a few months.

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Remove the views unless you have thousands/hundreds of views. For me, the main thing is to get the traffic for job applications then work on the sales of the jobs. Just now it's a case of asking for $20 for 20 views of which 1 may apply. That seems like a hard sale to make.

What are you selling? Job posts?

I hear monster charges something like $300 for a job post for 1 month. And $400 for 2 months.

I would think at this rate, that there would be a lot of competition.

Craigslist ran for years just on job posting fees in San Francisco alone.

Problem is having enough traffic to make the customer willing to pay $300.

For $300, monster probably gets you 100k+ pageviews a month. As a scrappy indiehack project, you're probably getting 1k at best.

https://weworkremotely.com/ is a pretty big remote job board that is likely siphoning away most traffic

yeah, I think you need to be a recognizable brand and have tons of traffic to be able to make real money out of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Something similar: https://launchafrica.io but still have hope! Jobboard for startup and tech jobs in africa

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