I've worked for some fairly large tech companies, building products customers more or less want. About 6 years ago, I convinced myself that I just need to build something, anything, and customers will come flowing in immediately.
So I scraped job boards and built my own that would "only" cost users $199 to post a job ad.
What I learned here is that your implementation is meaningless to the user if you're not delivering the value they came for. In this case, I wanted to take a technologically inferior product, make it extremely efficient, scalable and "blazing fast", and pocket pure profit from running a serverless job board (effectively free to run for the first million visits a month).
In total, the job board logged 761 sessions for 661 users in 2018.
One of many failures on my way to builing OnlineOrNot.
So I scraped job boards and built my own that would "only" cost users $199 to post a job ad.
What I learned here is that your implementation is meaningless to the user if you're not delivering the value they came for. In this case, I wanted to take a technologically inferior product, make it extremely efficient, scalable and "blazing fast", and pocket pure profit from running a serverless job board (effectively free to run for the first million visits a month).
In total, the job board logged 761 sessions for 661 users in 2018.
One of many failures on my way to builing OnlineOrNot.