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
What they did
What happened
In their words
I make $25K/month from one simple website
GusYou're doing the sales, you're not technical. How do you come up with this app idea in this boring job board website?
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.
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