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
“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”
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