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Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

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Post by gwbas1c »

xoelop wrote: post #24

Hey! OP here. It's one of my first posts here so wasn't quite sure about the title. This links to Telegram channels, so you need to be on Telegram - even tho you can also create an email alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#basic-plan to get the same jobs Do you think that something like 'Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs on Telegram' would have been a better title? Thanks!

What is Telegram and why should I use it?

I'm an unemployed senior developer; your exact target audience!

Pretty much 90% of the time someone wants me to install (or sign up for) some "thing," it's just some kind of gimmick or has no traction. This is especially the case as a senior developer, where part of my job is healthy skepticism for software I've never heard of.

So, IMO, the biggest challenge is communicating what Telegram is and convincing me that I should use it.

(That doesn't mean using Telegram is wrong; but when you're using something so new that no one's heard of it, you need to take ownership of promoting it.)

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#42

Post by ravenstine »

brtkdotse wrote: post #30

This category of “niche job board” seems to be the new get-rich-fast (or rather, collect-emails-fast) scheme du jour. Over the last few months there’s been remote jobs, jobs that don’t require a car degree, jobs for a specific tech... the space is quickly becoming inflated

I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with that. Getting rich quick is kinda what motivates people to create things, good and bad. ;) Get rich by tech schemes are only bad when an idea has been tried enough times to prove that it isn't valuable without significant differentiation.

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#43

Post by xoelop »

gwbas1c wrote: post #41
xoelop wrote: post #24

Hey! OP here. It's one of my first posts here so wasn't quite sure about the title. This links to Telegram channels, so you need to be on Telegram - even tho you can also create an email alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#basic-plan to get the same jobs Do you think that something like 'Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs on Telegram' would have been a better title? Thanks!

What is Telegram and why should I use it? I'm an unemployed senior developer; your exact target audience! Pretty much 90% of the time someone wants me to install (or sign up for) some "thing," it's just some kind of gimmick or has no traction. This is especially the case as a senior developer, where part of my job is healthy skepticism for software I've never heard of. So, IMO, the biggest challenge is communicating…

Hi! Telegram has quite some traction with over 200M MAU, but you have a good point.

I've made over 50 channels for different roles, from C-Level stuff like CTO, CPO positions to very language-specific channels like Rust, Haskell or React.

What I like the most about how I've structured it is that (once you're on Telegram) it's very easy to explore the different channels because they're linked to each other and there's very little friction to join or leave a channel

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#44

Post by xoelop »

brtkdotse wrote: post #30

This category of “niche job board” seems to be the new get-rich-fast (or rather, collect-emails-fast) scheme du jour. Over the last few months there’s been remote jobs, jobs that don’t require a car degree, jobs for a specific tech... the space is quickly becoming inflated

I'm not sure you can get and stay rich long-term without adding value to the world, but thanks for the comment

I agree with you that seems like there's a new remote jobs board every 2 days popping out. That's why I took a different approach with this, and it went from 0 unique subscribers 1 month ago to 1700+ today, over the 50+ different channels that I created within it. Hopefully they're getting something useful out of it!

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#45

Post by xoelop »

jfk13 wrote: post #34
xoelop wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the possibility of reaching people directly, instead of them having to visit a web page. If you're not on Telegram, I forgot to mention before that you can also get the same jobs creating an alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true (it shares the backend with the Telegram channels)

Hmm, glancing at the screenshots at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#plans , it seems that it's not always very good at distinguishing jobs offered from jobs wanted in people's twitter posts.

Oh damn, I have to update those. They were taken like 5 months ago, now it's much better. Thanks for reminding it to me

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#46

Post by AlchemistCamp »

xoelop wrote: post #11
polysaturate wrote: post #3

Is there no way to browse this information in the browser? Not saying I am anti-Telegram, but I have never used it, nor know how it works.

Hi! Definitely, I'll consider doing this soon. I like Telegram because it lets me reach people directly without them having to come to my site. But it's true that a lot of people don't use it and I'm missing out on them. I'll probably create email newsletters soon for the people that are not on Telegram. Thanks!

> I'll probably create email newsletters soon for the people that are not on Telegram.

Why not a website? It seems like that's what everyone is asking for.

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#47

Post by kevinzg »

xoelop wrote: post #33
ISL wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason that HTML doesn't work for a job board?

It does, but it's hard to differentiate yourself making yet-another-remote-jobs-job-board, especially if you're not on distribution already (like I wasn't). I think Telegram is an interesting distribution channel that let me connect directly with people (instead them having to come to a site) I'll make open newsletters in the future as well, for the people that are not on Telegram. Thanks for your comment! :D

An RSS feed would be cool.

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#48

Post by zcrackerz »

xoelop wrote: post #22
nogabebop23 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you're dead-set on extracting "something" of value from me before offering any compelling reason tor me to do so? Seems limiting...

Why would you say so? Joining the Telegram channels is free, and creating an email alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#basic-plan is free as well If you're in financial trouble somehow or can't afford the paid plan on FindMeGigs that sends you all the jobs, DM on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/xoelipedes ) and I'll give you a free unlimited account for free.

I hate to pile on, but you're putting up a lot of barriers that are going to discourage casual viewers. I don't want to sign up for some app I won't use for anything else. I don't want to give out my email. I definitely don't want to pay for anything. Maybe I'm not your target market, but this is going to be a hard pass for many people.

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#49

Post by xoelop »

jfk13 wrote: post #34
xoelop wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the possibility of reaching people directly, instead of them having to visit a web page. If you're not on Telegram, I forgot to mention before that you can also get the same jobs creating an alert at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true (it shares the backend with the Telegram channels)

Hmm, glancing at the screenshots at https://findmegigs.com/?remote=true#plans , it seems that it's not always very good at distinguishing jobs offered from jobs wanted in people's twitter posts.

Ok, I uploaded a photo of how the mails look like now - much better than the old pics. You can see it at https://findmegigs.com/assets/images/gallery01/d9a6787e_orig...

Re: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram

#50

Post by brtkdotse »

xoelop wrote: post #44
brtkdotse wrote: post #30

This category of “niche job board” seems to be the new get-rich-fast (or rather, collect-emails-fast) scheme du jour. Over the last few months there’s been remote jobs, jobs that don’t require a car degree, jobs for a specific tech... the space is quickly becoming inflated

I'm not sure you can get and stay rich long-term without adding value to the world, but thanks for the comment I agree with you that seems like there's a new remote jobs board every 2 days popping out. That's why I took a different approach with this, and it went from 0 unique subscribers 1 month ago to 1700+ today, over the 50+ different channels that I created within it. Hopefully they're getting something useful o…

Sorry if my comment sounded harsh, that wasn’t my intention!

Good job finding a niche and running with it!

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