Product Hunt /jobs - Hire awesome people

Earlier this week we made our first "real" revenue featuring Gumroad's Product Design job opportunity (thanks, Gumroad!). If you're interested in reaching out to our audience of connected founders, VC's, reporters, and other startup folks, drop me a line at ryan[at]producthunt.co. Job listings are featured on /jobs but more importantly, distributed in the daily/weekly emails (example: http://bit.ly/1feII84).

Good point and thanks for the note, Blake! In a way, you all have a job w/ us already, building the community and contributing. *bro hug* :)

@lylemckeany Ha! Me too, bro. :)

I think the "hunt" board for freelancers / employees is a great idea. I'd be a little concerned about the opposite of that -- the "hunt" board for employers -- turning into a PR service.

@rrhoover, just wanted to note that when I initially saw "Jobs" on the top of the nav bar, I just assumed it was job listings available to work for Product Hunt. Obviously, this isn't the case but I figured I'd share in case others might think the same.

@plc I was actually thinking it might be fun to recreate Product Hunt for jobs, giving people the ability to upvote and do an AMA in the comments with the companies. May be a terrible idea though.

What if we changed the nav title to "Job Hunt" haha. Too linkbaity?

Ha! Hunt all the things! But more seriously, @nbashaw and I are also brainstorming the reverse -- giving people the opportunity to promote themselves for hire (full-time, part-time, contract, etc.). We have a lot of smart, talented people in this community and would love to help connect people that can build cool stuff together... which will then be posted on Product Hunt. It's a virtuous cycle. :)

@rrhoover I'd like to see AMAs with companies. I've got some battle scars from the recruitment space -- a lot of companies really struggle with presenting their brand + culture. They struggle to answer the question, "Why should YOU come work here?" Exposing some of that / encouraging people to share that would be cool. I think, at minimum, it'd be a fun experiment. Allowing people to promote themselves is interesting too, but it can quickly derail if service providers/consultants sneak in. Clarity (Dan Martell) recently had a company spamming their Q&A site offering offshore services or accounting--something like that. When it comes to building a "recruitment site" I've often told people that they should build a community with tons of value instead (think GitHub, Clarity) and then layer on recruitment as a revenue model / value add. It makes perfect sense for Product Hunt.

@byosko +1. I think that it would be interesting to have us pitch ourselves, but that's what most of us are used to. Too often companies are only selling their product/service rather than trying selling why someone should come work there. @rrhoover / @nbashaw - let me know if there is ever anything I can do to help.