Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · job board sprint
A niche job board earning from day one, live in 14 days.
One industry, done properly. Employers post and pay themselves, candidates get alerts, and every listing is its own indexable page.
Quick answer
A niche job board can be designed, built and live in 14 days for a fixed $1,999, covering job listings with indexable pages, search and filters, employer self-serve posting, paid and featured placements, applications and candidate alerts. It is built for SEO, because job boards earn their traffic from search.
The plan
Day one to day 14, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–2
Structure
What a job is in your niche, which filters matter, and your pricing tiers. Filters are the product — get them wrong and candidates leave immediately.
- 2
Days 3–7
Design
The job page and the search results, both designed for someone arriving cold from Google rather than from your homepage.
- 3
Days 8–12
Build
Listings, search, employer posting, payments and alerts. Structured data and sitemap built in, since Google for Jobs is a meaningful traffic source.
- 4
Days 13–14
Seed and launch
Your first listings posted, alerts switched on, and the board live with every page indexable from day one.
What $1,999 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Communities and newsletters whose audience is already a hiring market
Industry associations with members on both sides of the hire
Founders in a niche the general boards serve badly
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
The industry's hiring happens on a spreadsheet link in a newsletter
A community or association's job opportunities currently circulate as a shared spreadsheet link passed around a newsletter or group, with no search, filtering or structure.
That list becomes a real job board with search, filters and employer self-serve posting, structured properly for the first time.
Situation 2
General boards serve this niche badly, if at all
An industry or profession is underserved by the major job boards, which treat it as a small category buried under unrelated listings.
A dedicated board for exactly that niche, with role, location and seniority filters built for how that audience actually searches, launches in 14 days.
Situation 3
Wants job board revenue without chasing every posting personally
A founder likes the idea of a niche job board's revenue model but doesn't want every listing to require personal outreach and manual posting on their part.
Employer self-serve posting with checkout means employers post and pay themselves — the founder isn't the bottleneck for every listing.
Situation 4
An empty board that converts nobody on day one
A previous job board launch had no listings on day one, and an empty board neither ranked in search nor gave candidates a reason to return.
The honest starting move: post relevant roles found independently, free, until employers arrive — an empty board is addressed before launch, not after.
Situation 5
Listings aren't structured for search engines to find
A previous attempt at a jobs page had listings as unstructured content with no schema, missing out on Google for Jobs and general search visibility entirely.
JobPosting structured data, a generated sitemap and clean URLs are built in from day one, meeting the technical requirements search visibility depends on.
The honest part
When 14 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
A full applicant tracking system with pipelines, scorecards and interview scheduling. That is a different product — the recruitment side, not the board.
Scraping other boards for listings. It is a maintenance treadmill, it is usually against their terms, and it produces a board full of dead links.
General job boards competing with Indeed and LinkedIn. Niche is the entire strategy here, and I will say so rather than take the money.
Inside the 14 days
- Job listings as individual indexable pages with JobPosting structured data
- Search and filters — role, location, remote, seniority, salary
- Employer self-serve posting with checkout, so you are not the bottleneck
- Paid tiers: featured, pinned, boosted, and free listings if you want them
- Applications by form or external link, with employer notifications
- Candidate alerts by email for new matching roles
- Admin moderation, expiry and renewal handling
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- A full applicant tracking system with pipelines, scorecards and interview scheduling. That is a different product — the recruitment side, not the board.
- Scraping other boards for listings. It is a maintenance treadmill, it is usually against their terms, and it produces a board full of dead links.
- General job boards competing with Indeed and LinkedIn. Niche is the entire strategy here, and I will say so rather than take the money.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes — structurally it is listings, search, payments and alerts, all of which fit comfortably. The hard part is supply and audience, not the build.
Other sprints
14 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.