Perfect Side Project Has Earned Him $399,109

Peter Askew is the guy behind RanchWork, a ranching job board that makes $7,400/month 🤑

He recently tweeted…

can’t find a project to build?

go build a niche, boutique job board, and dote on that community like it was your god-child.

Alongside that he shared a screenshot of a Google search for “welding jobs” 👀

Sites like LinkedIn and Indeed show up atop those search results because there is no specialized job board for that kind of work.

💬 Peter adds…

results like this tell me one thing: google WANTS to rank something better. ANYTHING. but no one has built it.

the profit-margins of a job board trump every project I’ve ever run.

job boards can be built by non-coders. if you’re a coder, even better.

job boards can be built by solo builders.

they are the perfect side project, or better yet, (eventual) full-time job. you’re helping people find new, better jobs. What beats that?

He’s right: job boards can be built easily, using a platform like JobKit (free but they take a 10% cut of your earnings) or Job Boardly (paid).

For example, it took me only 10 minutes to build this demo job board for welding jobs with JobKit 💪

Of course the hard part is getting traffic.

A comment on Peter’s tweet….

Indeed and LinkedIn are very hard to outrank.

And Peter’s reply…

people said the same thing to me when I started building RanchWork.

🚀 He launched RanchWork in 2014 and has been at it ever since, steadily growing the annual revenue over the years…

$399,109.44

that’s how much RanchWork․com has generated over these past 10 years.

oh – that’s right, I shouldn’t have built it, cause they told me to focus on “one project” 🤔

Sounds like he only spends a few hours a week on it, so it’s a nice and profitable side hustle.

To start your own job board, Peter recommends…

go window shop niches on Indeed, pick one that seems interesting with lots of search volume & activity, buy a good-enough .com, and get to work.

there is so much opportunity in this niche, I sometimes go 🍌🍌🍌 cause I can’t build it all.

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