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batasrki | 15 years ago

Sorry, I respectfully disagree. If the market will bear it, you can charge for a service before "mass adoption"

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vaksel|15 years ago

not when the service suffers from a chicken and egg problem.

Why would someone pay money to list their job on a site with no traffic?

Why would someone go to a site like that if you only have a dozen jobs?

This can be something good...but they are shooting it in the leg by being greedy

sleight42|15 years ago

To be clear, greed certainly isn't our intent. As Dave (djbrowning) wrote, we're concerned about the quality of the content on the site.

We're also giving away coupon codes right now (see my post below) to drive job posters to the site.

RuadhanMc|15 years ago

It's not greedy, it's just not a good idea to try and capitalize on a service that isn't running on all cylinders yet. Having said that, definitely a chicken and egg problem. I would worry about getting users before starting to charge for the service. Once a larger number of members has been obtained thinkings of ways to monetize it should be fairly straightforward.

jeremyheslop|15 years ago

The typical employer expects to pay to post a job listing. Yes more traffic is better, but I bet this site will start getting major traffic within a month. Being a specific niche I also predict it will get some major google SEO juice before to long. So that egg better start running or the chicken will catch up!

danssig|15 years ago

I don't think the chicken/egg problem applies here. It applies to e.g. dating sites because there are other options (e.g. other dating sites, bars, etc.). In this case, a ton of people want to work remotely and there is no central place to find that. Now I know of one place, so I'll definitely be checking it often.

keefe|15 years ago

well said on both posts sir.

I doubt running this site costs so many resources that they NEED to be charging right now.

another option would be to leave the charge now link and go out to craigslist, dice, etc and be like hey! want to have your job listed on our site for free?

bendmorris|15 years ago

Anecdotal evidence: http://functionaljobs.com.

Similar great idea, but no new posts in almost a month.

sleight42|15 years ago

Um.... and they cost a metric ton more than we do...

Someone said something about greed?

japherwocky|15 years ago

I think his point is that the market won't bear it.