Thread by @rrmdp

1 year 🎂 since @levelsio suggested to include paid options to JobBoardSearch.com 🔎 made 💵 $16,308.10 or $1,359/mo 🥳

Built with a few PHP files & no front-end frameworks 🤩

A thread sharing details of the journey!

(Giveaway 🎁 at the end of the 🧵)

#buildinpublic

Some stats 📈

• 4️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ job boards listed
• 517K Pageviews 👀
• 287K Unique visitors 🚦
• 170K referrals (clicks) ↗
• 130 payments 💲

• 2760 subscribers ✍
• 850 Followers @jobboardsrch
• 2376 Reddit members
. 756 Telegram members

Where does traffic come from?

Traffic ranking 📊

1️⃣ Direct
2️⃣ Twitter
3️⃣ Reddit
4️⃣ Google
5️⃣ LinkedIn
6️⃣ Facebook
7️⃣ GitHub
8️⃣ IndieHackers
9️⃣ Bing
🔟 Telegram

Countries ranking 🌎

1️⃣ USA 🇺🇸
2️⃣ India 🇮🇳
3️⃣ Nigeria 🇳🇬
4️⃣ Canada 🇨🇦
5️⃣ UK 🇬🇧
6️⃣ Turkey 🇹🇷
7️⃣ France 🇫🇷
8️⃣ South Africa 🇿🇦
9️⃣ Kenya 🇰🇪
🔟 Germany 🇩🇪

Filters Ranking 🧐

1️⃣ Remote Jobs 🌏
2️⃣ Entry Level 👶
3️⃣ Remote Jobs Only 🌏
4️⃣ No degree required 🎓
5️⃣Salary required 💰
6️⃣ Design Jobs 👨‍🎨
7️⃣ Non-tech 📵
8️⃣ Web3 Companies 3️⃣
9️⃣ Front End Jobs Only 🎨
🔟 Content Writing ✍

How it's happening?´

The initial traction was thanks to a couple of Pieter Level's RTs of the tweet below about me building StackOverflow Jobs Alternatives (Which later I rebranded it to jobboardsearch.com 🔎)

https://twitter.com/48645106/status/1485646221897252868

A couple of weeks later, a Sunday morning before going to the beach posted about JobBoardSearch on the subreddit r/InternetIsBeautiful and it went super viral 🔥

https://twitter.com/48645106/status/1515952731055398913

I've made a comment about JobBoardSearch 🔎 on an @IndieHackers
post and a moderator asked me to make a post about it (I've never written a post before)

It got featured on the home page, and newsletter which created a lot of awareness 🔥

The post 👇

indiehackers.com/post/our-reddi…

1000s of mentions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok (I never asked or paid, happens organically)

To mention some: @denicmarko @SergioRocks @hasantoxr @csaba_kissi @ChrisStaud

I collected some and posted it on the Wall of Love ❤

jobboardsearch.com/wall-of-love

How is making the 💵?

Pieter, in a DM suggested including paid options:
• Sticky 📌
• Custom Color 🟢
• Highlight ✨

Also, I decided to include 3 sponsored slots:
• Gold 🥇
• Silver🥈
• Bronze 🥉

I tweeted, right away @philostar from 4 Day Week Jobs purchased a slot

How did I come up with the idea?

Learned about Stackoverflow Jobs was shutting down and folks asking for alternatives

Inspired by Pieter Levels' way: minimalist, scrappy, not-perfect way of doing things, ship asap and improve later

Made JobBoardSearch 🔎 MVP in 5 hours

Of course, is not all of a bed of roses, there are a lot of days that you feel that you are not capable of doing it.

It's important to share your win and loses with likeminded people, to get encouraged when you are down, and to encourage others when you feel up 😀

I even thought about not posting this thread at all, because I thought is not good enough

That there are other indie makers doing the same revenue in a month

But hey, even though I've been making a living by freelancing for the last 14 years this is my 1st product ...

... so I hope this inspires some other folks that are a few steps below

It's hard to keep pushing when things are not working, it is so easy to quit!

The trick is to find something that keeps you accountable

For me was building in public and the @wip community

Even it's hard when you receive DMs like this put a massive smile in your face and you think: it's worth!

A random guy thanked me because my product helped him to find remote work for his mate that is having a baby 😍

I'd like to thank :

@levelsio because I'm sure without his encouragement I wouldn't put the effort

@philostar from @4dayweekio because he was the 1st sponsor and still is sponsoring it 🙏

@onurgenes because he helped me with cold emails

I'd like to thank:

@davemay310 from @StartupJobs4 because he was the 1st ones to trust me long-term by acquiring 7 months in a row of sponsored slots

@RemoteJobSub because they had a premium listing 12 months ago, and are still doing

I'd like to thank:

@gaomengen from @echojobs_io because he has been supporting since the beginning and still doing so

@MauroBonfietti from because he purchased a premium listing for 7 months in a row and inspired me to make bundles feature

The tools to run it ⚙

@posthog Stats
@emailoctopus Newsletter
@healthchecks_io Cron job monitoring
@uptimerobot Monitoring
@zapier Automation
Testimonial by @damengchen Wall of love
@whoisxmlapi Domain footprints
@airtable DB
@telegram Notifications
@stripe Payments

I'm grateful for all that happened in the last 6 months so I would like to give away the book 📖

make: THE INDIE MAKER HANDBOOK by @levelsio

I think it will help any indie maker starting and wanting to build a job board

@levelsio How to get the book?

You need to RT 🔁 & like 🧡 the root tweet below, I will make a raffle.

Thanks for reading 🙏 and hope you are enjoying my journey!

Any questions, AMA, always happy to help 😀

https://twitter.com/48645106/status/1649022475223674886