My job site passed $1000 in revenue

Someone pinch me because I just hit a major milestone with my side project. Exactly 7 days ago, I wrote a post about reaching $500 revenue milestone.

Within one week, I was able to hit another milestone – $1000 revenue.

On December 29, I announced a fun challenge on Twitter – build and launch a product in 2 hours. I shared my idea as well – a job board for AI niche.

I was able to complete the challenge successfully. It immediately got picked up my multiple newsletters including Ben's Bites. And then Robert Scoble shared the project on his Twitter account (500k followers). I was able to amass a good traffic from this virality.

Link if you are curious: moaijobs.com

However it took me nearly 1.5 months to make the first dollar with this product. It took 5 months to go from $0 to $500. And only 6 days to go from $500 to $1000.

It is a great feel to see your hard work starting to pay off.

One of the important thing is even Pieter Levels (founder of NomadList) tried to launch a job board for AI but give up due to no demand. So, I always thought it will be extra hard for a newbie like me to monetize it.

I know this isn't much but it is a great start. Also, I operate at 100% profit margin because my expense to run this site is 0. That's cherry on top.

If you have any questions about running a job board/SEO, I would love to answer. Thank you.