37signals Job Board is closing down

Remote work job postings are usually a haven for scammers, commission-only jobs, and MLM. But this looks great so far. I hope this stays as clean and legitimate as it is now. My sister's boyfriend just bought Ferrari with the cash he made working from home, click here!

The WeWorkRemotely works really well. I've never had such a response from one of our job postings. 50 or so qualified applicants in the first week, and we hired a perfect match out of that pool. In contrast our stack overflow ads had gotten 3 highly unqualified applicants in 30 days.

Interesting napkin math for We Work Remote:<p>(131 + 25 + 12 + 12 + 4 + 2 + 2) jobs * $200&#x2F;mo = 37600 MRR.

Job boards are a funny thing, it&#x27;s a fairly easy thing to program, and yet companies will pay good sums of money to post an ad because it is to hard to find decent help AND companies are already paying money to advertise job openings.<p>Value created !== programming complexity

They don&#x27;t <i>really</i> need the money, of course, but it&#x27;s still cool to see them truly standing by their principles as set down in <i>REMOTE</i>.

Just to summarize all the services 37signals has shutdown over the years:<p>- Writeboard [1]<p>- Tada List [2]<p>- Answers [3]<p>- Backpack [4]<p>- Product Blog [5]<p>- Job Board [6]<p>- OpenID support [7]<p>- Draft [8]<p>- Breeze [9]<p>- Softfolio (sold) [10]<p>- Basecamp Classic (still running but can&#x27;t signup for new services) [11]<p>.<p>Then some &quot;soft&quot; services the were doing like:<p>- Podcast (last update was 2011) [12]<p>- Exit Interviews (last update was in 2011) [13]<p>.<p>Then you have Chalk and Campfire that feel like they are on life support, even though they are still operational.<p>.<p>[1] <a href="http://37signals.com/writeboard-retired" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;writeboard-retired</a><p>[2] <a href="http://37signals.com/tadalist-retired" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;tadalist-retired</a><p>[3] <a href="http://37signals.com/answers-retired" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;answers-retired</a><p>[4] <a href="http://37signals.com/backpack-retired" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;backpack-retired</a><p>[5] <a href="http://reorg.co/breaking-37signals-retires-product-blog-2011-07/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reorg.co&#x2F;breaking-37signals-retires-product-blog-2011...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://jobs.37signals.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.37signals.com&#x2F;</a><p>[7] <a href="http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2011/01/well-be-retiring-our-support-of-openid-on-may-1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.blogs.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;well-be-retiring...</a><p>[8] <a href="https://twitter.com/37signals/statuses/208575895101902848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;37signals&#x2F;statuses&#x2F;208575895101902848</a><p>[9] <a href="https://basecamp.com/breeze" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basecamp.com&#x2F;breeze</a><p>[10] <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/10/37signals-lists-web-designer-directory-sortfolio-on-flippa-buy-it-now-for-480000/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;insider&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;10&#x2F;37signals-lists-web...</a><p>[11] <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3114-basecamp-next-becoming-basecamp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;svn&#x2F;posts&#x2F;3114-basecamp-next-becoming-b...</a><p>[12] <a href="http://37signals.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;podcast</a><p>[13] <a href="http://37signals.com/exit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;exit</a><p>Edit: formating &amp; added applications to the list

I think the more accurate term is migrating their job board.

does anyone know of similar quality job boards that are focused more on turnkey projects and less on staff augmentation?<p>i&#x27;ve had the best experiences with clients who care more about the end product and results, rather than specific languages, frameworks, or even skillsets. nearly all of them have been inbound or referrals, so i&#x27;m not sure if a job board (maybe a reverse job board?) would be able to replicate that.

Weren&#x27;t they selling one a few months ago? Is it suddenly more profitable to make yet another?

37S really loves job boards, this makes what 3? 4 now?

This makes complete sense - We Work Remotely is targeted to the remote work niche, while the past job board was probably facing competition from StackOverflow and a variety of &quot;programming centric&quot; job boards.

Interesting that they&#x27;re competing with Work From Home, which is free.<p><a href="https://www.wfh.io/jobs/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wfh.io&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;</a>

Is the We Work Remotely site loading incredibly slow for anyone else? The Chrome Dev Panel says a 1.4 min page load?

Got my first job from that board <i>sniff</i>