It happened, passed $30,000 💵 in revenue with a "boring" directory 🥳

by Rod

It happened, passed $30,000 💵 in revenue 🥳with JobBoardSearch.com 🔎 a directory of job boards

All thanks to @levelsio who in a DM told me: "start charging for new boards to submit"

Last month it did $2.8k, it's not huge but in EU the min avg salary is $900, you can make a living in a lot of countries in the world!

Inspired by Pieter and RemoteOK built it using HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), and PHP

Put it online after 5 hours of work because StackOverflow Jobs shut down and people were asking for alternatives

How it makes money:

Sponsored job boards
Listing upgrades
Ad slots
CPC

Some stats:

975k page views
528k unique
330k jobs / job boards link clicks
7.3k Telegram mems
7k Newsletter subs
6.2k subreddit mems
125 paid job boards / products
3k Backlinks
367 Referring domains

I'm building it in public and got inspired by a lot of other founders, I shared all on twitter https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1764646109815656457?s=20

Hope this thread inspires others a few steps behind

Always happy to help 😀

Rod

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on March 4, 2024

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Congrats Rodrigo, you deserve it 😊

zahil

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  Thanks so much, Thomas, It's nice to see you around over here!
  
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    Superb job, Rodrigo!
    
    Time to update your interview on the Indie Hustle site with the latest revenue numbers!
    
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      Hehe indeed, thank you!
      
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Congrats man! Keep pushing forward

Matiss_Pur

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  THanks a lot MAtiss!
  
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Congrats on your inspirational success :-)

ZackAliyev

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  Appreciate you Zack!
  
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Wow
This is so encouraging
Congratulations 🎉

Arkim

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  Happy to hear is encouraging, thanks!
  
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Congrats on great results, more milestones to come 💪

dhavalmakwana

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  Thanks a lot, hope so 💪🏻
  
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Congratulation for your success.

Leo2024

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  Thanks a lot LEo!
  
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Congrats man! That's awesome

againsthegrain

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  Thanks a lot!
  
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Congratulations on the results!🚀

Adrian_F

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  Thanks Adrian!
  
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I know you. I've been following your progress. Congratulations.

ugurkilci

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  Thanks so much 🙏🏻
  
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Congrats Rod!

DevDavid

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  Thanks DAvid!
  
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Congratulations . We are thrilled to celebrate your success!

allenz

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  Appreciate it!
  
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Congrats on reaching $30,000 in revenue with your partners. Cheers to your success!

agatharose

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  THanks a lot!
  
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Congrats, Rod. This is very inspiring.

I'm interested to learn more about the ads.

How did you get your ad customers? And how many monthly views are they getting in return?

codingjon

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  Thanks to building in public on Twitter and word of mouth.
  
  The monthly views depends a lot on the type of ad.
  
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    Thank you!
    
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Great Job... Inspiring story :-)

VignanReddyKotha

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  Thanks so much!
  
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Wow! nice work. board of job boards, how meta.

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  Thank you!
  
  I actually built a meta feature, so jobs are listed with in each job board :)
  
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    🔥
    
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wow. simple & $ustainable.

jiteshghanchi

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  It's not huge, but growing :)
  
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Congrats! This is very inspiring. How long did it take to get the first 100 users?

orgpark

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  Thanks, happy that is inspiring. More than 1 year
  
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How are the ad slots doing and did you use google ads? I am considering adding ads to a free tier of my recently deployed site but keep convincing myself otherwise.

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  I've sold both ad slots this month ($500 each for 30 days)
  
  Note: Ads slots are for products that are not job boards
  
  I never ran any ads at all, it all happens organically thanks to building in public on Twitter
  
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    Oh interesting! With building in public on twitter did you just start posting your work with the hashtag?
    
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      Yes, sharing everything on the way, like new features, revenue, failures, wins, new job boards added.
      
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Congratulations and keep going !

Ikar700

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  Thanks a lot!
  
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This is so inspiring, congrats! I have to ask though, how did you manage to get the entire thing up in 5 hours? I assume the paywall and everything else payment related came later. How did it look as an initial MVP after the 5 hour mark?

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  Thanks man!
  
  There wasn't any paywall at all, I started charging 2/3 months after launching.
  
  It was a very simple, basic, ugly static HTML website.
  
  I posted under a @levelsio tweet, he liked and RTd it.
  
  The rest is history 😃
  
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    That is awesome!!
    
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Congrats on the continued success!

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  Muchas gracias Roberto!
  
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Congrats man. Lots of hardwork went into this success.

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Congrats Rod! How did you market it initially?

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  THanks man!
  
  It all started on Twitter.
  
  If you are interested in the story you can read @petecodes post about it https://www.highsignal.io/companies/making-20k-job-board-directory/
  
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Congrats man, truly inspiring 🙏

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  When I started it was super inspiring reading others stories, so now I'm sharing mine too. Thanks a lot!
  
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  When I started it was super inspiring reading others stories, so now I'm sharing mine too. Thanks a lot!
  
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Congrats 🎉👏🏻

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  Thanks a lot?
  
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Are you sure abt your claim of "975k page views?

SEO tools like Semrush, Ahrefs tells the totally different story.

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  SEO tools do not have access to actual traffic data. They just estimate traffic based on keyword rankings and search volume. It's never even close to the real thing.
  
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    but they cant be SO wrong. Semrush showing traffic < 400 only.
    
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  Actually 978k right now, I use PostHog to track and I haven't started using it since launch, I'm pretty sure I crossed 1M.
  Here the link to the pageview stats https://us.posthog.com/shared/8V5xoOr-pplRm0WgTU-Zct4n4H1SEA
  
  PS: Ahrefs and Semrush estimate traffic and are far from accurate
  
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    but they cant be SO wrong. Semrush showing traffic < 400 only.
    
    How come PostHog is so right?
    
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      I have no idea. PostHog has the real traffic because the app tracking it https://ibb.co/984qD2w
      
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  for traffic, check similar web
  
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    Is not accurate either, I've seen SimilarWeb claiming I had 200k unique per month and is not true, I get less that that
    
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