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oh I remember this one, learned and use CSS tricks from this website back in the day. I wonder how they plan to make a profit from it?

Looking good, I like the idea!

It's looking lean. Is it already making any revenue?

My daughter would love that, how does it works?

Thanks a lot!

Nice, I didn't think of this, yeah, I think it's a good idea but I'm looking something else, kinda a website, or community with folks sharing their experiences.

Each job board page list its own jobs.

(OP) Seems that HN cut of the text, so posting here is the comments:

I started JobBoardSearch about four years ago as a simple directory of niche job boards (A static HTML file with a dozen job boards)

One particular think I'm proud of: I didn't scrape these niche job boards and add them to a dabatabase. The 800+ job boards currently listed were submitted organically by their ownres.

Lots of their job boards provide a job feed (API, XML or RSS), I fetch those feeds and use the data in serveral different ways.

Each job board has its own page in JBS, where I show jobs from that board. I call this the "meta" part of the site.

The same feed powers a few other things I built:

- A subreddit bot that automatically post jobs every hour to the /r/jobboardsearch subreddit, which has grown to 26k memebers.

- A free telegram bot that sends personalized job alerts based on custom settings: keywords, locations, industry, candence, etc. The Telegram community (@jobboardsearch) passed 6k members.

- The main job search itself.

The interesting part is that the same data creates several distribution channels (Including AI citations that keeps growing).

Over time, I turned it into much more than a simple directory. I've added muitple revenue streams: featured listings, ads, affiliates, a Direcgtory Submission Service, a Marketplace (buy/sell job boards), and SEO audits.

I've also built several free tools for founders and job seekers. They are useful but also helps with SEO and drive organic traffic.

The design is NOT the strongest part of the project :D

I started it inspired by levelsio's approach of keeping things simple: PHP, raw CSS, and vanilla JavaScrip.

I've been tempted many times to rewrite it and make it much more polished but like this is something unique.

The moat isn't the design or tech. It's the traffic, SEO authority, and realationships with the founders submitting their niche job boards.

The site passed $100K in lifetime revenue, and still just me running it (with my wife helping with the newsletter).

Also I've been building it in public all this years on X/Twitter (@rrmdp) so all it's documented there.

HAppy to answer any questions about anything :)

Thanks for reading,

  Rod.

This is really sad to read :(

So many entrepreneurs (who can because software businesses) are leaving EU

A meta directory of niche job boards https://jobboardsearch.com

launched around 4 years ago, crossed $100k in LTR.

Building it in public on X: @rrmdp

Both

Why do you think Show HN is useless? How would you do it? or would you just remove it?

Yes, nice, but what might be a good game for you, it might not for others, we are not all the same.

Not easy to asses what's good for a game.

Some jobs are going to disappear and others will be created... same like in all eras in the past.

X, I managed to cross 10k followers by sharing my learning and building in public. If I had to start again I would record myself.

Is this kinda a job copilot?

Pardon my ignorance but...

why is OpenRouter worth 7 billion dollars?

I used to help for free in a forum of an open source booking engine, a British startup wanted to migrate into this software and heavily customize it for their own needs, they hired me and ended up working for them for 6 years

Use VPS, nowadays with the help of AI it's a lot easier to set everything up, you don't need Versel at all. And of course way cheaper

Spend as much time as possible with your kid. My daughter is 15 y/o, and even I was lucky to spend time with her because I started working remotely 16 years ago my only regret in life is not spending more time with her, one day you realize she is not a kid anymore and you don't understand how happened that fast.

The fact the DB is portable is amazing, I use it for all my projects now but didn't know about this JSON feature

Thanks for sharing! Is it the best?