Solo founder grows reverse job board to $100k a year - Joe Masilotti, RailsDevs

Joe Masilotti is the founder of RailsDevs a reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers, which is over $4k MRR and on for $100k revenue. Joe also runs the monthly Hotwire Dev newsletter, which has over 2,000 subs. And then late last year, Joe sold his side-project Mugshot Bot, which he took from idea to sale in just 14 months.

What we covered on this episode:
- How and why Joe sold Mugshot Bot at $200 MRR
- When to stop working on projects
- How RailsDevs started with a spreadsheet
- Solving a problem with a simple solution
- Why a reverse jobs board works
- A unique approach to a marketplace business
- Growing RailsDevs (from both sides)
- Being an embedded entrepreneur
- Why RailsDevs has a hiring fee and subscription
- Dealing with high churn
- Growing a newsletter to 2,300 subs
Recommendations
- Book: Obviously Awesome by April Dunford
- Podcast: The Business of Authority
- Indie Hacker: Colleen Schnettler

Sponsor - Ramen Club

[msbeehiiv]

Thanks for this very informative way to do job boards.

[wind_in_hair]

But the question is for how long he prepared this job board and how much he spent for making it/ promoting it/ visiting expo. To see the profit …

[briandouglas]

interesting approach to running a job board