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Big news to share... Job Boardly has been acquired! 🎉
@jasoncharnes and I met as strangers on the internet and started Job Boardly as a tiny side project. No funding, no team, just two people trying to build something cool and useful.
Two years later, it’s powering hundreds of niche job boards. But as our time got spread thin, we realized it deserved more attention than we could give.
So we found someone who CAN give it that attention.
Huge congrats to @nelsonpryan, the new owner of Job Boardly. He’s already started working on improving and breathing new energy into the product. Customers are in great hands.
Also big shoutout to @acquiredotcom for helping make the deal happen.
And yes, I’ve already acquired my next SaaS. Announcement coming in a few days... 👀
Two years ago a friend called me with an idea: start a sauna hat company.
I said yes.
Today we're launching on Kickstarter and I have no idea if anyone will pay $165 for a hat you wear in a hot room. Here's the story 🧵
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This is cool. Use OpenClaw to find jobs and automated your job search.
@LiorNn as always coming up with extremely clever ways to grow Remote Rocketship. If you own a job board you should follow him.
The future of job searching with OpenClaw 🦀🔎
OpenClaw can now be your personal job-hunting assistant. It can:
• Send the best matches directly to your WhatsApp
• Scan for new jobs every hour
• Filter based on your requirements
• Rank roles against your resume
Result: zero manual searching. Just hyper-relevant jobs sent to you automatically.
Built with the Remote Jobs Finder skill + plugin.
Try it here 👇
clawhub.ai/Lior539/remote-jo…
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Love this soooo much. It's like staring at a beautiful painting for me. It's like watching a beautiful sunset. Like watching the waves crash onto the beach... 🥹
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If you’re on X you think everyone is ahead of you
The truth is it’s still just the beginning
And the same challenges as always which will never change…
Build something, improve/fix it constantly and work your ass off to distribute it
if vibe coding was really empowering everyone to build software
we should see a surge of new apps being published
we don't
the truth is only software engineers care about building software
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Well, we did it... we built yet another Skype alternative...
A little late to the party but it's actually been 8 months in the making.
Back in Feb when Pieter posted about Skype shutting down my co-founder Mitya and I decided to jump on it.
We registered the domain in March and quickly whipped together and MVP.
The MVP sucked and we weren't feeling very inspired. To be honest, at the time I kinda felt like a poser just doing whatever everyone else is doing.
So we did what good founders do and shelved in our graveyard of unfinished projects.
About a month ago I was feeling restless one day and decided to take another crack at it.
Totally locked it and hardly left from my computer for days.
Sent it to Mitya to show him I've been a busy little boy and he loved this version. Boom! We started shipping.
I realize a bunch of other people have jumped on this already so we're a bit behind but we are absolutely cranking on this now.
Already have a few organic paid users (which is wild) and built some really cool features.
You can call 200 countries, buy credits, buy numbers (local & toll-free), toggle btwn numbers, call history/stats, store/import contacts, and overall just focused on creating a really amazing UI/UX.
I'm super proud of what we've built so far. Honestly, even if we're not the biggest or the winner or whatever, as long as some people use this I will be stoked.
I've been an expat for 7 years now so this one is kinda near and dear for me and very fun to work on. I'll drop the link below for anyone who wants to check it out
Skype ceases to exist in 2 months
Me and my friends still use Skype regularly if we need to make international phone calls, not online calls, but PHONE calls, like calling US IRS or smth
I wouldn't know where else to do that
I can't use my phone for it cause would be super expensive
Spinning up a basic website that works on laptop and mobile, that charges credits (not free!) and lets you voice calls anywhere probably gets you to $1M ARR in no time I think
And there's 100% an API out there that already does that so all you need to build is a front end
<title>{brandName} - A Skype alternative to call international numbers worldwide</title>
And you have 2 months to build it cause then Skype ceases to exist!
If you wanna check it out leave a comment or DM me and I'll give you $5 in extra bonus credits to use after you sign up.
usecaller.com
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That background anxiety you're feeling?
It's all your open loops.
Start closing the loops and it will slowly fade away.
The bigger the loop, the more it helps.
Have that difficult conversation you've been putting off.
Pay that bill that's a month late.
Finish that half done project.
Fix the tiny problem that becomes a big one if you ignore it.
Maybe it doesn't work for everyone or every situation. But I find this is usually my problem.
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i met my co-founder on a boat ⛵️
about a year and a half ago a friend of mine got his skipper’s license and invited me to go sailing. i went once, got hooked, and started joining them every week.
turns out one of his friends ( @mityasmusin ) was the other skipper, so it was always the three of us sailing mid-week.
they kept inviting me because i was the only one available in the middle of the day while everyone else was stuck in the office and i would help out on board.
for months we just talked about random stuff; how the wind was blowing, life, etc. never once did we talk about work.
then one day after sailing we're walking out of the marina and i asked him, “so what do you do anyway?”
he goes, “i build software.”
me: “wait, me too.”
after that we started hanging out off the boat... dinners, drinks, talking shop, product ideas.
eventually we decided, okay, we have to partner up on something eventually.
then the shoutout io acquisition came up... and felt perfect. we finally had our chance.
and that’s how i ended up building a SaaS with a guy i met on a sailboat.
If you could have any software tool for free what would it be?
Could be something you already pay for or just something on your wish list
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Been very pleasantly surprised with how well our affiliate program is performing already. Here's how I set it up...
We only introduced an affiliate program 2 months ago and already generated over $1k in sales from it without really promoting it much.
I've set up many affiliate programs in the past and usually takes a year+ to get any traction in my experience, so I think this is a very good sign for Shoutout.
4 baseline things to remember when setting up an affiliate program:
1. When someone purchases immediately invite them to your affiliate program.
2. Create a separate affiliate welcome onboarding series for affiliates. Most people will sign up and immediately forget. You need to nurture new affiliate signups as you would any lead.
3. Remember that 20% of your affiliates will drive 80% of your affiliate revenue.
4. You need to actively recruit affiliates as well.
Still a looong way to go but excited to see it working.
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Has anyone else been confused today trying to find their Stripe tab because of the new favicon?
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Created this nifty conversion rate calculator for the new Shoutout website
Made two versions of this; a mini one for the homepage and a standalone one for SEO at /testimonial-conversion-rate-calculator
If you have a tool where results can be measured by a calculator of some kind I encourage copying this
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We're giving away 3 free lifetime Shoutout accounts (ends tomorrow) 👇
🚨 I'm giving away 3 lifetime shoutout.io accounts (worth $299 each!)
Comment SHOUTOUT + Like to enter to win
(must be following)
Winners will be selected at random on Oct 9
Makes me so happy to see this and proves my point exactly why lifetime access is such a good move for getting started.
We ran Job Boardly as a lifetime deal for 2 years before we sold to Nelson.
In 3 short months he's already grown it to $2k MRR by switching to subscriptions and removing lifetime.
Job Boardly is ready to grow, FAST! 📈
I'm trying to learn from him as well. Maybe we should have added subs sooner? I'm not sure... but its cool AF to see this.
September was a big month for Job Boardly.
Total revenue surged 71.6%, and we successfully hit $2k MRR! 🔥
It was also the last month of our lifetime plan, a significant step for us.
Going forward, we are focused on growing recurring subs and adding more advanced features.
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🚨 I'm giving away 3 lifetime shoutout.io accounts (worth $299 each!)
Comment SHOUTOUT + Like to enter to win
(must be following)
Winners will be selected at random on Oct 9
75% of users never scroll past the hero. So we redesigned Shoutout’s site around one idea... something I call "The Hero Is Your Homepage"
We wanted to create a hero that gave the user everything they need to make a decision even if they didn't scroll
(Remember, 75% of users don't scroll past the hero for most sites)
We broke this down into a few elements:
- Social proof
- Urgency
- Trust
- Credibility
- Showcase
- Value
The hero contains all of these elements and as much of them as we could fit
Just went live today so now comes the true test... will it convert? I'll post an update once we have enough data
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Testimonials matter more than features 👇
I moved 250+ testimonials to a new tool: Shoutout
Here’s why I love it, how I set it up and why you should get in on their lifetime deal before it goes away
youtu.be/8NlHxN5-ErI
cc @davidsonkyle
our traffic for @shoutout_io jumped up over 200% in the past 30 days (we acquired ~90 days ago)
all we did was:
add sitemap.xml
add robots.txt
add blog (1 post/week rn)
fix meta titles and descriptions
launched affiliate program
starting sending a weekly newsletter
shipped 7 new features
added bunch of new backlinks
next up: launch new website & more features & world domination
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