From Simple Idea To Launch (FAST!)

Last Friday, I emailed the same bunch of links to niche job boards to yet another person who was looking for a new job.

On Saturday, I received a warm 'thank you' note mentioning how helpful the links were.

On the spot, I decided to post them publicly, which quickly became an idea for what's probably a micro-revenue-but-useful site to share links to niche job boards.

I'm not at all an expert developer, but I knew I wanted to do this FAST (even a few $$ per month versus very little time & expense = a decent ROI).

I reserved a domain name via Google Domains ($12) and that's the only out of pocket monetary expense.

I used a vector silhouette of a rhinoceros I bought as part of a collection years ago and paired it with text and graphics to make a logo, using Adobe Illustrator.

I built a simple HTML / Tailwind CSS site that's mobile-friendly.

Here's my playbook to setup Tailwind CSS CLI for html: https://mgav.medium.com/setup-tailwindcss-cli-for-html-25dbc375230

I hard-coded every job board (in the unlikely event it actually takes-off, I'd switch to a database and try something new to me, like Nuxt. I've used Vue3 before on a prior project that's sucking wind).

Revenue will mostly be from job boards paying to post on the site and get seen.

I used Stripe's basic 'Checkout' (https://stripe.com/payments/checkout) that allows users to click a Buy button and go from my site to checkout on Stripe's site.

Upon completion, users go to a"Success" page on my site, with an embedded form from Cognito Forms (https://www.cognitoforms.com/), so they can upload the details of their job board posting and logo.

It is a little hackey, but in about 12 to 14 hours of total investment, it's live and good enough.

I'll report back if revenue exceeds $1,000 (unlikely, but we'll see).

Have a look (feedback & questions welcome):

https://giantjobboardlist.com/index.html

Thanks for reading!