Peter Askew

6th months in, developing ZooJobs․com as a job board (bought domain for $6k) - some observations/thoughts: 🦒 this is an entirely different build, compared to RanchWork․com (you'd assume it'd be similar, but no) 🦒 I had (almost) instant traction with RW... ZJ initial growth slower (see img), but positive overall (traffic wise, similar to Vidalia dev early days) 🦒 currently seeding one job per day. manually. no bots, no ai. me. this helps me soak-in industry. 🦒 zoos appear to have HR departments, so need to adjust on how to reach them effectively (w/ ranches, either the husband, or wife, or kids often post the job) 🦒 leaning towards yearly price for unlimited listings as my primary package (RW is a-la-carte, one-off postings) 🦒 no sales yet; don't really care; starting to think sales may occur after a hand shake (versus self-serve like RW) 🦒 might attend some zoo & aquarium conferences later this year to meet folks (like I did w/ duderanch․com & got my first sale) in these early days, another focus is (selfishly) studying myself, to determine if there's some sort of intrinsic motivation here. Some pull towards this industry - some magic sauce that makes it fun for me to return every day. I ain't interested in grinding some project out that might cost me my sanity. I prefer building something where it doesn't feel like I'm building; or doesn't feel like I'm serving. It feels natural. Effortless action sortof. Hell, you can call it wu wei if you want. I want to start working, and then kindof forget that I'm working. Finding projects like that is hard. But it's doable. You just have to build a lot of projects. I've built so many over the years, I can never quite tell if something might fit - I only know after I build it, and start serving. Happy to say this one has been quite fun. Maybe daily pics of koalas, lions, cheetahs, and sea otters (holding hands) makes it more interesting 🦦🐆🦁🐨🤷‍♂️ /fin

the waiting period from (domain auction win) to (domain awarded) on GoDaddy is painfully inhuman and I give it a firm thumbs down; but I'll leave you with this image that represents the domain I bought and I'm excited to play with to see what happens.