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How did you validate RemoteOK? What did your MVP look like?
I'm currently going through my list of ideas from the past few months to see what I want to work on next.
One of the ideas came when I was looking at job postings for Formula 1 teams. Currently every racing team lists job openings on their own site, this means that if you are interested in working in formula 1 you need to check 10 websites (10 teams in F1 right now). I want to scrape those websites and combine them into a single job board and do the same for many other race classes.
I think I can grow and monetize in 2 different ways from there: -Make it an automative job board (with racing as a subcategory) and sell job postings to companies in that industry (car dealerships, mechanics, self driving cars etc.) -Make it a sports job board: scrape jobs from other sports (NBA, NFL, NHL etc.) and sell job postings to companies in the sports industry.
How did you validate RemoteOK? Did you use a spreadsheet like you did for NomadList or did you build the site + scrapers and trust that there are enough job postings in that niche to make it profitable?
One of the ideas came when I was looking at job postings for Formula 1 teams. Currently every racing team lists job openings on their own site, this means that if you are interested in working in formula 1 you need to check 10 websites (10 teams in F1 right now). I want to scrape those websites and combine them into a single job board and do the same for many other race classes.
I think I can grow and monetize in 2 different ways from there: -Make it an automative job board (with racing as a subcategory) and sell job postings to companies in that industry (car dealerships, mechanics, self driving cars etc.) -Make it a sports job board: scrape jobs from other sports (NBA, NFL, NHL etc.) and sell job postings to companies in the sports industry.
How did you validate RemoteOK? Did you use a spreadsheet like you did for NomadList or did you build the site + scrapers and trust that there are enough job postings in that niche to make it profitable?
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Great question! I'm about to sleep so will write more tomorrow.
The validation was 2 ways actually:
I only posted the job ads that I sold myself. The volume was ok, but not big.
Then when that took off way more, I killed Nomad Jobs and redirected it to Remote OK.
I think important is to have a site about a topic that you can then attach a job board too. I did that with Nomad List -> Nomad Jobs -> Remote OK. Product Hunt does that with Angel List Jobs. BetaList with Beta Jobs. If you don't have the topic site, you can't get traction on a job board, unless it's a new niche and you're the only one (like ReactJobs).