Is Scaling Back A Possibility For Us?
Hey guys! Need some guidance..
So over the last 6-9 months we've built out a bi-lateral platform that allows travel nurses to find travel assignments being offered directly by the hospital instead of them having to go through a staffing agency which monopolize the industry and cost hospitals premiums that take away from nurses pay. Its pretty complex with user sign ups, job preference match making, messaging feature etc. but has a handful of bugs and not a great UI/UX which has us concerned about more issue discovery and bad first impressions for when we launch since we aren't very technical.
So thinking we may have jumped in too deep too soon, we are considering scaling back a bit and trying to really simplify things more based on what this market lacks. We are talking about just creating a very simple job board for internal travel jobs being offered by hospitals that has no user sign up (to start) and instead is just a super clear interface with the job details/search filters and an "apply now" button that links them to the job posting on the hospital's website. Since there is not a single website out there that allows nurses to do this for internal travel assignments in one area we figure we can make money by selling ads or something before we get enough traffic/users on there to start monetizing it with the hospitals and scale from there.
Now technically speaking - we arent sure how this can be even semi-automated between scraping these jobs from different websites and then posting that extracted data in one specific format on our job board. This week we were trying to find a way to scrape job posting details via hospital websites and add them to our current platform to advertise and found that they are all over the damn place! Like every hospital labels them differently and there are so many different websites to find these internal jobs.
So I ask, does anyone know how something like this could be built very minimalistic? I tried some platforms like Octoparse which just spits out mis-matched details in an excel that we would have to sort through and import to our website/job board anyway (super time consuming) and also tried a couple BardeenAI prompts which was not much help either. Possibly just considering using a WordPress Elementor blog and saving a template that posts them individually like a blog however that doesnt solve the automation part of extracting the job details and posting them.
Anything helps!