Building an AI Recruitment SaaS: Lessons Learned

Short summary

A bootstrapped founder shares honest lessons from building Beonmap, an AI-powered job discovery platform. Key takeaways: pivoting away from a crowded CRM space was right, going mobile-only matched user behavior, registering a company pre-revenue was a costly mistake, and distribution requires a fundamentally different skill set than building. After 22 releases, monetization remains unsolved.

• •Pivoted from CRM SaaS to AI job discovery after 2 months—sunk cost is not a strategy
• •Deleted web app to go mobile-only, matching where users actually are
• •Registered company too early, wasting money better spent on product; distribution is a separate problem from building

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.