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Guillaume Sempe
@gsempe
I'm CTO at a rather big French dating application.
Pieter advices are spot on. Like he said, you must validate your economics first and before anything else.
Second, you must validate that you can build your audience. It roughly means what are the acquisition channels you can activate?
Are you connected in the Portuguese startup scene?
On the potential employer side AND on the potential employees side.
Because, indeed, a job board is just a specific case of a market place.
Finally, from the tool point of view side, you can do it with many solutions. An Airtable embedded, sheet2site www.sheet2site.com/ (the @AndreyAzimov great no-code website builder) or, if I may reference my own project, with RoleUp RoleUp.com
I wish you all the best. If you want to talk more about your project, please, feel free to contact me.
Thanks for mentioned Sheet2Site.com
I have 1 client who is running a remote job board for Latin America: weremoto.com/ DM me if you want to build similar website.
Hi Damon,
I can talk about my experience about custom domain for RoleUp.com. All job board creators can add their custom domain.
I have created a subdomain canonical.roleup.com. In the configuration, I ask them to create a CNAME with this "canonical" subdomain as a target.
When a request comes to my server on canonical.roleup.com, It goes through the webserver down to the software. In the software I extract the host origin. Then I have a software routing table that redirects the request to the concerned account.
For SSL, I used CaddyServer and its on demand feature caddyserver.com/docs/automati…. It works like a charm.
For the context, I'm on AWS.
Hey Guillaume, thanks for sharing your experience! I know AWS is good, but I'm looking for some solution which doesn't require too much setup.
I did my research and Render seems a good one. I handled the backend routing pretty much the same as you did your roleup 👍
Hey! At some point you are bound to hit a ceiling where you are trying to use something which wasn't the original use-case, so you either move to another system or find a workaround.
Have you talked to their support and explained your use-case? May be its a soft limit that they can raise for you? If not, then consider how hard it would be for you to use multiple Vercel accounts abstracted away under your implementation? Kinda hacky, but that's what hackers do.
Hey Ashish, yes I already reached out to Vercel team, and got a reply from their C** saying only way to do so is to upgrade to Enterprise plan which costs thousands dollars. Not suit for bootstrappers like me who want to build some SaaS products. So I migrated to Render, so far so good😉
I haven't heard about Render before. Looks cool, how did you setup your infra on it?
I didn't really do much. It provides a PaaS service, and all the backend server stuff are handled by Render.