Remote OK：一个人白手起家做的招聘平台，Product Hunt 第一名，月入约 3.6 万美元

做的是什么生意

Remote OK is a remote job board that aggregates listings from hundreds of sources, lets companies post jobs directly, and connects remote workers with employers worldwide — built and run solo by Pieter Levels since 2015.

启动资金：Self-funded: no external capital; Levels built and ran it solo from a laptop while traveling, funding it from earlier indie projects.

起因

In February 2015 Pieter Levels launched Remote OK as part of his '12 startups in 12 months' challenge: he kept meeting people who wanted remote jobs they couldn't find, so he built an aggregator of every remote job feed he could parse and launched it to Product Hunt and Hacker News.

经过

It reached #1 on Product Hunt (1,000 upvotes, then #15 all-time), drew ~100,000 visitors in its first month and 3,723 email signups, and was covered by The Next Web, Forbes, Fast Company and Lifehacker. Job boards including WFH.io and AngelList asked to be indexed rather than fighting the scraper. By 2017 it claimed ~1M monthly visits and ~$10K/month; revenue kept compounding — Stripe's 2025 podcast cited $3.4M for Remote OK, and 2026 snapshots put it near $36K/month.

结果

Still live and profitable as of 2026-09: Remote OK remains one of the largest remote job boards, run solo with zero funding, and is the longest-running pillar of Levels' bootstrapped product portfolio.

可借鉴之处

给聚合对象返还价值，就能把潜在的对立者变成伙伴；先做用户和实用价值，再考虑赚钱，也许根本不需要融资。