WantRemoteJob
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
WantRemoteJob was a job board for remote jobs in the IT industry, built in 2017 by software engineer Vyacheslav Grzhybovsky. He coded it himself and invited a list of contacts to try the product - a one-person bootstrapped remote-work marketplace.
02 / WantRemoteJob FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
WantRemoteJob was a one-person project that its founder could not sustain: keeping the board running and growing it would have required far more time and people than a solo engineer could afford, and it was never going to pay off. Grzhybovsky shut it down rather than pour more effort into a product that could not justify itself.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Software engineer Vyacheslav Grzhybovsky builds a remote-jobs board for the IT industry and invites his contacts to try it.
- Shut down
Grzhybovsky realizes he cannot handle everything alone and that the project would need significant time and people to pay off; he shuts it down.
- Postmortem published
The founder's story - 'Burning $6K Building a Failed Job Board' - is published, recording the failure.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
After building the board and testing it with his contacts, the founder concluded the project could not be sustained by one person.
- 02
He shut down the job board rather than invest more time and money into it.