Cutting some losses - New Years Resolution - Dev Log 29

I have been trying to market my job board for weeks and have found no success. Emailing companies and offering free listings did not work, getting in contact with Influencers in the developer community yielded no results, trying to join Zip Recruiters partnership program also gave me no results. My latest attempt has been to manually put jobs on my site so that I can pay for Google ads and hope that continual traffic somehow jumpstarts the site. It is too early to tell if that will get me any results.

Unfortunately I feel that I have hit a wall. I have decided to move on with another project while still giving the job board some of my attention. It makes me feel very sad. I thought that if I just approached marketing with the same zest that I did development that something would stick, but it has not been the case. So in order to actually complete my New Years resolution, I will start developing another application.

I have not completely decided on what type of application, but I am leaning towards mobile. I learned Flutter a while back and enjoyed the developer experience, and would be willing to get back into it if I could turn a mobile app into a profitable venture. If anyone has any ideas for a solid mobile app, please comment. I have a pretty good idea for one or two, but I am definitely open to other ideas.

Another route I could take is to create a SaaS. Many people have suggested them to me in the past and I know that a good SaaS would make decent money. I really do not know exactly what to do next, but standing still will get me no where. I still apply to development jobs every day and get no responses from that, and I still code almost everyday, even if I do not push to GitHub. I recently applied to a position with Twilio, they have a hatch program for early career developers. It would be a great opportunity but they probably meant people who just finished college or a boot camp, not someone who has been unable to get a job for almost 4 years despite having a degree and still delivers pizza for a living.

Life is not great right now, and it has not been for while, but things will change, I just need to keep plugging away and eventually my luck will turn around.