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Career Hound · B2C · job board for US job seekers

Turn a friend's job-hunting scraper into a paid job board

Aimed for $1,000 each; grew to ~$25-28K a month

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What they did

Co-founder found his own job by building a scraper for jobs posted directly on company websites; they productized that process into a job board for US job seekers, with a modest $1,000-each goal.

What happened

Became a real business at ~$25-28K/month

In their words

I make $25K/month from one simple website

Play from 3:35
3:27

GusYou're doing the sales, you're not technical. How do you come up with this app idea in this boring job board website?

3:35

RomanI always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, and I was talking to a bunch of friends about starting a business. So, I met somebody online, and me and him started brainstorming different ideas. And at some point, when I was looking for a job, my friend told me how he found his, how he built this scraper to find jobs posted directly on company websites. So, we turned his process of how he found his job into a product just to get our skin in the game. And initially, our intention was to make just $1,000 each, but since we've started, it has turned into a real business.

4:08

GusOkay, what I love about Roman's story so far is how simple his product is. It's just a job board. You've seen this kind of thing a million times. You've probably even used one, and yet it still makes $25,000 a month. The question, I think, is how? Well, in my opinion, I think it's because his website is really simple. It's easy to explain, it's easy to understand, and people get it right away.

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Tags: scraping, own-problem