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What is 'MVP' for a job board?

Hey all,

I'm building https://goodjobs.careers, a job board for engineers looking to use their skills for good. I'm struggling with which direction I should go on improvements to the MVP.

Currently, GoodJobs is a Svelte site that pulls data from a Google sheet. I manually vet all the jobs individually, so that they meet my criteria of a 'good job'. I update the sheet, the site gets deployed with the new jobs. Users can filter by remote/onsite. That's the extent of the MVP at the moment.

My question to you all: what do I build from here? Obviously there's so much that can be done from searching to filtering to alerts, but I'm trying to keep the project narrow and only build what will have the most impact.

Thanks for your thoughts,

on May 16, 2021
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    Work on a good "change the world for the better" definition that is easy to explain and could lead your marketing and copy
    Then go market it to

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      Thanks for the feedback. I have been struggling a bit with how to clearly and simply convey 'change the world for the better'.

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        Well, this is the philosophy your selling, it's central to your business, maybe try to look up what NGO use for inspiration, don't be afraid to slice it to like nature, health, socio-eco or something like that... 3 pillars would be a good number, don't get an endless list

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          This is useful and actionable. I really appreciate it.

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    1. Get people to apply for those jobs
    2. If people, do then your hypothesis of a good job is right, if they don't then ask for feedback and iterate from there.
    3. Manually match for now till it gets to a point where you have a large enough database of job seekers.
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      Thanks for this.