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Seems a shame the unhyphenated domain name has been parked for 10 years. The good news is it expires in August. The trademark for it is dead as well: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:lt... The trademark registrant and domain registrant might be related or one in the same. Both were registered in 2001. Looks like it was intended for a remote job entry app. Worth watching.
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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.
Then maybe your solution is one that ensures the good ones rise to the top?
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Anecdotal evidence: http://functionaljobs.com . Similar great idea, but no new posts in almost a month.
Um.... and they cost a metric ton more than we do... Someone said something about greed?
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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.
If quality was your only concern, you'd just charge a one time $5 fee. So I'd say greed is at least somewhat involved. 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…
Site looks nice. Right now there aren't a lot of jobs, so a good feature to attract seekers is some way to track jobs as they come in - email/sms/mobile updates, or even a simple RSS feed of jobs. This works well for other infrequent job sites like Top Ruby Jobs.
Looks cool. RSS feeds would be nice.
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
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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.
I would suggest using Turk or finding another resource that can do the manual moderating, you need to be expanding the core tech and business. Getting bogged down in these kind of tasks can kill your momentum.
how many qualified individuals visit that site? i can pay about 2x as much and get a listing on linkedin for 30 days, which is, well, better..give me the value prop for this site and if it is good, i will post several jobs.
However, how many talented folks still use LI? You can call me biased but, seriously, I've hardly used LI since a good friend of mine there left the company about a year ago. I don't find value in it. Therefore, when looking for a hire, you'd never reach me.
I've heard similar anecdotes from several other people in my "cohort" of Ruby/Rails nerds.
EDIT: We're probably reaching a different audience. If it's an audience that interests you, we may be able to help you. If not, then perhaps not. We serve a niche.