u/Electrical-Elk-9110

I'm at the super early stages of my startup - developed my service over the course of 2 weeks or so, and it's been live a month.

Good news is that I made RoI in less than 2 weeks, which sounds impressive but actually the costs were negligible (ICO fee, hosting, domain, mail), and I've given my time into it for free.

My challenge is marketing. It's a niche area - and fundamentally I see search engines as my route in. I've done all I can think of for now - submitting site maps, requesting a crawl, making sure the she is optimised for SEO, but to my understanding it takes months for a proper crawl to occur and to start getting ranked properly.

I don't need to do anything - even without search engines it's attracting interest and purchases from my social media, but it's kind of annoying just having to wait.

What's everyone else do in this space? Am I doing something weird?

First time at this in case you can't tell. Bit of an exploration on top of the day job

Hi all, I want to fix civil service recruitment. I've been writing about all the ways the process fails good people, and I wanted to ask this community for the ones I haven't seen or haven't thought of.

• The guidance explaining what to write contains more words than you're allowed to write

• Loyalty is rewarded with a smaller pay rise on promotion than the person who just walked in off the street

• Leaving and coming back is often the best financial decision you can make — the system actively rewards it

• A process that is objectively harder than most private sector hiring — to earn a smaller salary

• The feedback if you fail is a number. One to seven. Hours of careful work. One digit.

• Your competence will lose to the incompetent serial applicant who treats every job like a lottery scratchcard — because they've learned to game a process that doesn't care how good you actually are

I've been writing about this and more in more depth on my blog. Never thought I'd be a blogger. Maybe I'll be an influencer next!

Check my profile for a link to the full thing.

What other types of crazy have you experienced in the process?