Hey Ben, no experience but curious why you're looking to move away? I image Paddle will have some kind of white-glove onboarding if you have decent volume on LS.
Not looking just yet, but eventually the fees with LS won't make sense
In that case I'd want to move to either Paddle or Stripe, most likely Stripe
Yeah, I'm not sure if you're paying yourself in USD, but LS is basically no option for me because paying out in anything other than USA is another 3%...
Saw this thread on paddle yesterday, it seems like a good business until you need to get some support: twitter.com/helloitsolly/stat…
I do pay myself in USD so it's OK for me, but yeah, other currencies are $$$$$$$
Yeah I've heard lots of horror stories with Paddle. I also had a tough time with their support in my personal experience - I tried signing up but they wanted like 50 different legal documents to get me onboarded, a refund policy, a privacy policy, etc. Too much of a PITA and too much work just to get a product monetized so I went with LS who didn't ask for any special documents and they've been fine.
The only reason I'd consider them over LS is because their fees are more flat. LS does charge a bit extra on top of their 5% fee for PayPal, subscriptions, etc.
Might be able to kill two birds with one stone using my feed. I have one API with just text descriptions + searching on fractional I currently get 8 hits.
Your volume would be very low so you can simply use the free plan:
rapidapi.com/fantastic-jobs-f…
I'm hoping to add a Linkedin feed in a couple of weeks as well which might help you with more jobs!
Google will accept a rich description so no need to worry about that. Where are your jobs on fractionaljobs.io? I thought it was just a newsletter
Sorry for delay Remco. Appreciate this. Do you have experience using rich text for the description? I was under the impression it had to be plaintext only. Trying to find out more about this but not finding much.
Re: newsletter. All the jobs are linked to from the newsletter, we feature about 10 - 15 per week, and the actual job board on the site is launching in the next week or two.
I'd be interested in learning more about fantastic jobs too, my current data feed is pretty crappy.
Actually now that I am re-remembering, I believe the core issue is that Webflow does not allow you to embed rich text from their CMS into a JSON object, they only give you access to plaintext fields when using their custom code feature.
Might be able to kill two birds with one stone using my feed. I have one API with just text descriptions + searching on fractional I currently get 8 hits.
Your volume would be very low so you can simply use the free plan:
rapidapi.com/fantastic-jobs-f…
I'm hoping to add a Linkedin feed in a couple of weeks as well which might help you with more jobs!
Nothing to worry about from my experience, just let the job 404 and Google will remove
You're position 7 for "Fractional Jobs" which is pretty good for a new job board.
I like that you're going email first, but I do have to say I was a bit confused that there's no actual job board.
I think you just have to hope that search volume increases and I can see it succeed. If I was you I would look at what 4dayweek.io/, especially all the little details that you don't see on other job boards in the right sidebar for each job. What could those be for you?
How's the email sign-ups going?
Yes 4dayweek is definitely an inspiration. Phil's done a great job!
Email signups I think(?) are great, I'm at 1,600 in the first 4 weeks. I don't really have anything to compare this to though, so no idea. The email open/click rate is 80%/25% though, which seems insanely high.
Oooh thanks for sharing, I haven't really found any competition yet. My intention is to do the same thing yeah but platform agnostic.
I wasn't familiar with jobboardly, that's much cheaper than niceboard which I usually recommend!
Cool cool, I'd be happy to test it at some point - though transparently got my hands full with another launch and some keyword research at the moment. I'll let ya know if I get more serious about this job board idea, just doing some initial thinking about it right now.
And yeah, competition is always good. Means there's something there already!
For jobboardly: I saw it on X randomly. Their pricing seems quite fair and I might give them a shot instead of custom building my own job board software if I do end up trying to make a job board.
My pleasure, did you already have a niche in mind? I'm actually working on an API which merges several ATS into a single DB, let me know if you want to beta test!
That was my exact thought after reading your post ("I wonder if I can build an API that merges all of this job data together and sell it to job boards") 🤣
Just to be clear, is it basically this? www.jobboardly.com/features/t…
Oooh thanks for sharing, I haven't really found any competition yet. My intention is to do the same thing yeah but platform agnostic.
I wasn't familiar with jobboardly, that's much cheaper than niceboard which I usually recommend!
Cool cool, I'd be happy to test it at some point - though transparently got my hands full with another launch and some keyword research at the moment. I'll let ya know if I get more serious about this job board idea, just doing some initial thinking about it right now.
And yeah, competition is always good. Means there's something there already!
For jobboardly: I saw it on X randomly. Their pricing seems quite fair and I might give them a shot instead of custom building my own job board software if I do end up trying to make a job board.
Yeah, I'm not sure if you're paying yourself in USD, but LS is basically no option for me because paying out in anything other than USA is another 3%...
Saw this thread on paddle yesterday, it seems like a good business until you need to get some support: twitter.com/helloitsolly/stat…
I do pay myself in USD so it's OK for me, but yeah, other currencies are $$$$$$$
Yeah I've heard lots of horror stories with Paddle. I also had a tough time with their support in my personal experience - I tried signing up but they wanted like 50 different legal documents to get me onboarded, a refund policy, a privacy policy, etc. Too much of a PITA and too much work just to get a product monetized so I went with LS who didn't ask for any special documents and they've been fine.
The only reason I'd consider them over LS is because their fees are more flat. LS does charge a bit extra on top of their 5% fee for PayPal, subscriptions, etc.