Job Boards now with Submit, Analytics and API

Instead of launching a separate version of Fuselagejobs we decided to tighten our focus and add new features to the existing job boards.

• You can now allow visitors to submit job listings to your job board. If you approve the job listing, it will be displayed on your job board.
• We’ve improved the management interface where you can add and manage jobs and contact details.
• You can now use Google Analytics to track visitors to your job board.
• We added a lightweight JSON API to make it easier to display your jobs on other websites. Widgets coming soon.
• We’re confident these new features make the job boards more useful and better value. We’d love to hear your feedback on these changes or anything you’d like to see.

• Get your own job board now on Fuselagejobs – it’s free to try.

Getting Satisfaction from Red Robot Studios

When we started Red Robot Studios earlier this year, we had a couple of guiding principles we wanted to make our core philosophy:

1. Build great software
2. Keep everything simple until we know what to make complex
3. Let customers and the community guide the direction of the company and its products

With these principles in mind we built our first application Fuselagejobs which is based, in part, on work we did for Djangogigs last year. Fuselagejobs is comfortably lightweight at the moment and performs its core function of managing jobs listings pretty well. However, we’re very much aware that users will want more features and functionality as time goes on. Hence, the need for us to keep in touch with the community’s wants and needs.

I’ll admit it now: we’re not psychic. As we work on products for Red Robot Studios, we can’t know for sure what features people want or expect. The best we can do is to make something we think is good, and ask you for your feedback so we can learn what we did right and what we need to become better at.

So, we’ve started using Get Satisfaction as a way to gather feedback and keep in touch with our customers and the wider community. We hope to get ideas and suggestions as well as address any problems or grievances, and build products which you the community help to direct.

It’s all done “in the open” so we can be transparent and approachable instead of some faceless corporation hiding behind a website.

We will be writing frequently on our blog, and you’re more than welcome to follow us on Twitter too (Andrew and Scott).

So, if you’ve got anything you’d like to discuss, we’d love to hear from you.

Looking for a job board? Try Fuselagejobs.

Why we launched a Job Board app

Our first product is Fuselagejobs which lets you easily start your own job board and list job vacancies online. It might seem like a strange choice for a hosted web application. Job listings have been on the web for a long time and there are established big players as well as open source alternatives. So where do we fit in?

Big Players

The big job databases have lots of traffic, lots of employers and lots of candidates. They list jobs from different industries and rely on search to find what you are looking for. That’s ok, but maybe not the best way for candidates to find interesting jobs and for employers to find the best candidates. It all seems very big and impersonal.

Niche Job Boards

Small job boards that target an industry niche or geographical area are becoming popular. We saw great success with Djangogigs, a job board for web developers who use the Django framework. That’s a good example of a tightly-focussed industry niche. It was launched over a year ago and has had over 500 jobs submitted so far. It quickly became the de facto place for employers to post job ads and candidates to look for work in that niche.

Many of the large blogs and other websites with a lot of users have started their own job boards as a way of helping their community and generating some revenue. The jobs are focussed enough that they are interesting to the website regulars. Employers pay to advertise knowing the people who see their job adverts are the type of candidates they’d like to attract.

DIY for non-geeks

So why not use one of the open source packages to set up your own job board? You could if you have the technical skills or have staff to do that for you. If you don’t want to wait for the IT guys or in-house developers to get round to it, Fuselagejobs is a good alternative. It’s easy to use, requires no technical skills and is fully hosted. Just sign up and start adding jobs within minutes.

Innovation

A basic job board is pretty easy to develop, but we think there’s room for innovation to make it easier for the right candidates to find the right jobs. As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback on what you’d like job boards to do for you.

So that’s why we launched a job board app!

Check out Fuselagejobs and create your own job board for free.

Job boards made easy

We’ve just launched Fuselage which lets you create your own job board.

Each job board has its own website with admin interface and is hosted by Red Robot Studios. It’s very easy to get started and there’s nothing to install – all you need is a modern web browser.

Niche job boards are taking off. A niche job board brings together people with specific skills or located in a particular area. We know from past experience that a focussed community can build around a job board leading to higher quality candidates and more relevant job listings – a win-win situation for employers and candidates.

Fuselage fills the need for people who want to create their own niche job board or for companies or recruiters who need a simple way to list jobs online.

Fuselage is the first app to be released by Red Robot Studios and we have high hopes for it. In the coming weeks we’ll be adding new features and releasing different packages.

If you’re interested in job boards, you can try Fuselage for free.

Better software with less hassle

There’s a lot of software around, but sometimes it causes more problems than it solves. Installing, configuring and maintaining software distracts you from your business. Finding the right software is a significant time investment in itself.

There’s a better way. We’re pleased to announce the launch of Red Robot Studios Ltd. Our mission is to give you better software with less hassle.

• Easy to try
• Quick to get started
• Does what you need without a lot of distractions

Our software is web-based and hosted, so there’s nothing for you to install. You just need a web browser. Try it. If it’s not right for you, adiós. If it does what you need, you can use the software to help run your business and leave us to take care of upgrades, backups and security.

Red Robot Studios Ltd is the brainchild of Andrew Gleave and Scott Barnham, two entrepreneurial software developers from the UK (Isle of Man). With years of experience developing for the web, we have the skills to back up our vision.

Our first product is Fuseleage: an easy way for you to run a niche job board. A niche job board brings together people with specific skills or located in a particular area. Better candidates, more relevant jobs. Use it to advertise positions for your company or organisation, or target a niche and sell job listings to employers for profit.

Thanks for stopping by. We’re hard at work on some better software with less hassle, so don’t be a stranger.