There are lots of fair and constructive comments here which I'm going to be taking on-board both for York Tech Jobs and for future projects.
As many people have pointed out, the claim of being a business may be a bit farfetched at this stage. The spirit of the article was to show that building and validating a basic MVP is possible in a few hours, I added the last sentence about it being a business as a bit of a perhaps misplaced barb at people who are all talk, no action.
Thanks to everyone for their comments. It's really appreciated.
She says at the bottom of the article:
I literally built a business in an afternoon and so can you.
I also appreciate the effort to put something like this together, especially for a person without minimal coding ability. That part is great.
Calling it a "business" is everything that's wrong with the Silicon Valley mentality. It isn't something you do in an afternoon. It could be a business one day, heck, it should be! But emphasizing the technical component over actually doing business is how many so-called companies get into trouble.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think the world needs another jobs board but at one point airbnb sold cereal boxes so who am i to judge on what a persons ambitions will look like in 12 months time if they continue to learn and get some feedback. I mean, if they are reading the thread there is a bunch of feedback here they can assess.
Everyone here who is commenting on scaleable systems had to start somewhere, i would bet for many that start was not with something that was at least halfway functional and could accomodate users.