Hi everyone - this is my first show HN post.<p><a href="http://www.jobboard.io" rel="nofollow">http://www.jobboard.io</a> is a platform for operating niche job boards that I've bootstrapped as a side project over the last 6 months or so.<p>My reason for doing so was two-fold:<p>1. I've run several niche job boards for quite a while, some of them bringing in decent revenue. The 3rd party platform I was using was one where I had to give up 50% of the revenues - not a tenable situation once I began to show signs of success. Since I needed to build something that would support multiple job board sites - I figured why not turn it into a SaaS offering as well. One that does not take a rev share, and charges a flat fixed amount.<p>2. I wanted to teach myself Ruby on Rails. It's ROR/Heroku/Bootstrap based.<p>I've been writing code professionally since '99, starting out w/ classic ASP and then moving to .NET. Over my career i've moved into higher and higher management positions (now a VP of Tech @ a media co), and thus moved further and further away from actually building things. This has been a great outlet for me - and allowed me to stay more current and up to date on the technical side of things.<p>Appreciate any and all feedback. It's been quite a learning experience....
It looks interesting. I was having trouble deciphering your plans though. Why would I need a "standard" versus "business" niche job board? I got to thinking what sort of target customer I'd be if I needed one plan or another:<p>* Standard - Small/Medium business. They want a personal job board for their postings, and they'll dump everything on one board.<p>* Business - Recruiters. If a recruiting company is serving a general field (say, oil & gas), they'll have perhaps 2-3 niches that they fill, perhaps engineers & managerial.<p>* Enterprise - this stays as is, a single large corporation may want to host multiple business groups or departments with their own job boards.
Interesting. Reminds me of a recruiter who runs several jobs board. He blogs at recruitingdomainnames.com about domain names... he might be interested in your solution. I saw him in this very interesting interview which I highly recommend: <a href="http://www.domainsherpa.com/jason-davis-slouch-interview/" rel="nofollow">http://www.domainsherpa.com/jason-davis-slouch-interview/</a>
Well from a pro perspective (I have done a lot of work in analyzing jobs and classified sites) there doesn't appear to be any taxonomy or role/Geo browse structure.<p>Handling expired jobs and cat/geo pages with no adverts is another tricky area.
An additional job board powered by jobboard.io that may be of interest to this audience <a href="http://www.rorjobs.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.rorjobs.com</a> - focusing on rails opportunities.
Interesting - I was hoping to use this as a way of advertising open positions in our company (ie: "Post Job" should be available only to our company admins).<p>Looks like this isn't possible at the moment?
I would like to use this, but can I place it on a subdirectory of my domain? It doesn't appear that I can.<p>If I can't, then it has low SEO value. That feature is very important for me.