Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com

Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by timcederman on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:29AM (#852607)

I worked in the job space for a while, and I would recommend shopping this around to sites like TheLadders, Indeed, SimplyHired, etc, who are all always looking for competitive features. If they could just buy something rather than build it in-house, I'm sure they would (speaking as someone who worked at a startup which got sold to Monster.com for 72.5 million).

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Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by nonrecursive on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:32AM (#852617)

Something like this is what I have in mind, but I have no idea how to approach companies to shop my site around. Do you have any advice?

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Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by timcederman on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @11:36AM (#852632)

I would use LinkedIn, or if you email me I can put you in touch with a few folks who might be able to help.

You'd also be surprised at the recipient lists behind the "contact us" forms on a lot of the major sites. e.g. http://www.indeed.com/jsp/contactus.jsp

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Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by nonrecursive on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @12:58PM (#852994)

Thank you - I'll send you an email shortly.

One thing I'm wondering about is, should you email them with your price or ask them for an offer?

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Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by rapind on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @03:03PM (#853365)

Why not just build your user base and work to make sure your feature set is competitive or better? They'll come to you eventually.

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Re:Ask HN: advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com by timcederman on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @03:32PM (#853447)

You'd be surprised at the number of small-scale acquisitions that occur after a casual mention or demonstration of a site.

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