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Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

#11

Post by BHSPitMonkey »

I personally dislike the idea of (further) fragmenting things like job boards (or real estate listings, or travel fares, etc.) where breadth is critical. How is this better than a general-purpose job board with an option to filter by remote-friendliness? Unless people are willing to potentially miss out on listings that don't happen to be on this particular board, this is just one more addition to a long list of places the user has to keep track of if they are job-hunting.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

#12

Post by domodomo »

charliepark wrote: post #2

I made this as a way to see remote / telecommuting / anywhere jobs. I'm posting it now mainly as a way to "force the MVP", and to stop fiddling with it. I'd love to know any feedback you guys have. Thanks!

Dude, this is impressively MVP. Google forms for submitting, and just linking to a 3rd party webpage for actual job details. Awesome.

Are you just manually updating the page by hand when people add jobs? Kinda concierge style. I would actually respect that all the more.

People talk a big game on MVP, but it's cool to come across where someone actually gets it.

How did you get your initial inventory? Just manually sifting through HN posts? I think getting new and quality inventory will be the biggest challenge, that's harder than getting job seekers.

You've basically created a less crappy and niche focused indeed.com:

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=&l=Remote

I'm not sure if indeed.com spiders automatically or what, but I'm guessing you could emulate their approach to getting job openings.

Another option is to try to actively partner with headhunters who often have a source of inventory you wouldn't normally see on job boards.

As for the UI, ignore the haters. The simplicity reminds me of Startupers (http://www.startupers.com/) which is doing just fine.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

#13

Post by bambax »

charliepark wrote: post #2

I made this as a way to see remote / telecommuting / anywhere jobs. I'm posting it now mainly as a way to "force the MVP", and to stop fiddling with it. I'd love to know any feedback you guys have. Thanks!

I think this is just fantastic. Does it gather job listings automatically, or do people have to post them?

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds

#17

Post by akavi »

jgh wrote: post #3

I like how Patio11 is now a job title. I think the background makes the text a little hard to read though

I mean, you can't claim the guy doesn't take his own advice (specifically, his encouragement to "Carve out a niche of one").
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