A few questions:
-What did the companies that posted on your site have to say about the quality and quantity of candidates?
-Do they feel it was $50 well spent?
-Did people apply through your site and find jobs so far? Do you have a way of tracking the stats?
-What is your future direction of this site? What features do you plan to add?
-Oh, and how did the $10 Digital Ocean VPS hold up with the sudden spikes of traffic?
None of them have contacted me.
-Do they feel it was $50 well spent?
I don't know.
-Did people apply through your site and find jobs so far? Do you have a way of tracking the stats?
A few people wrote in to thank me and tell me they applied jobs. I haven't asked around, and there's no tracking in place.
-What is your future direction of this site? What features do you plan to add?
I want to keep focusing on the UX. Speed and ease of use are the features I care about most. I want the UI to be so good that people feel comfortable looking for a tech job no matter how old they are with the site catering to older geeks as a bonus.
-Oh, and how did the $10 Digital Ocean VPS hold up with the sudden spikes of traffic?
No issues at all. I use Flask-Cache backed by redis, which I'm sure helps a lot.
I think it would be awesome if a job site has some formalisms around various skills.
A candidate could report his/her skills like this: (skill name) --> (level of proficiency and/or interest in learning).
A job posting could report skill requirements in a similar manner: (skill name) --> (importance to job).
It would be an awesome way to get highly-targeted search filters / notifications.
Similar formalisms could be used to filter on commute / relocation details.
Edit: Negative-terms would be very helpful as well. E.g., I'm actively averse to doing devops work, even if it's a match in other ways.
I'm aware of the limitations and want to fix them. If any HNers know what I should search for on Google to get this done, please let me know.
probably simplest fix...