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As a now country-side based programmer, I will definitely use your site :) Thanks!
Oh? Where are you? Would love to chat about Ruby nerdery sometime when we may be in the same place.
charging before you have mass adoption is a recipe for disaster...you should wait until you have mass adoption then make a premium listing and charge for that. As it stands now, you'll have a dozen or so jobs, interest will fade, and employers will stop posting when they get few resumes
That's a really interesting point. Our concern with free listings was a flood of poor content, which would hide the good ones.
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Sorry, I respectfully disagree. If the market will bear it, you can charge for a service before "mass adoption"
not when the service suffers from a chicken and egg problem. Why would someone pay money to list their job on a site with no traffic? Why would someone go to a site like that if you only have a dozen jobs? This can be something good...but they are shooting it in the leg by being greedy
We're also giving away coupon codes right now (see my post below) to drive job posters to the site.
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That's a really interesting point. Our concern with free listings was a flood of poor content, which would hide the good ones.
that's a good problem to have...that means you are actually popular enough for people to exploit....then you can introduce the paid pricing. for now you can easily moderate postings yourself.
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Sorry, I respectfully disagree. If the market will bear it, you can charge for a service before "mass adoption"
not when the service suffers from a chicken and egg problem. Why would someone pay money to list their job on a site with no traffic? Why would someone go to a site like that if you only have a dozen jobs? This can be something good...but they are shooting it in the leg by being greedy
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not when the service suffers from a chicken and egg problem. Why would someone pay money to list their job on a site with no traffic? Why would someone go to a site like that if you only have a dozen jobs? This can be something good...but they are shooting it in the leg by being greedy
To be clear, greed certainly isn't our intent. As Dave (djbrowning) wrote, we're concerned about the quality of the content on the site. We're also giving away coupon codes right now (see my post below) to drive job posters to the site.
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not when the service suffers from a chicken and egg problem. Why would someone pay money to list their job on a site with no traffic? Why would someone go to a site like that if you only have a dozen jobs? This can be something good...but they are shooting it in the leg by being greedy
To be clear, greed certainly isn't our intent. As Dave (djbrowning) wrote, we're concerned about the quality of the content on the site. We're also giving away coupon codes right now (see my post below) to drive job posters to the site.
And yes giving away coupon codes is good and well...but then you run into the quality problem that you use as an excuse to charge from the start.
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with greed...provided it doesn't cause you to kill your business before it gets the chance to get off the ground.