Learning and careers decision
Sportsjobs Online
A technically capable developer can reproduce a useful subset (aggregation, search, gated access, alerts) in a few weeks, but matching the vendor's turnkey product, audience, polish and existing subscribers is impractical without ongoing operations and marketing.
Visit website↗$3.25/mo
$39/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off60 h to build
$85/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 29 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Aggregate sports-related job listings, index them, present searchable/filterable results, and provide subscriber-only full-access and email alerts.
What it still won’t have
- Turnkey polished UI, branding and UX polish
- Curated editorial selections and company relationships
- Existing newsletter and subscriber base
- Marketing, SEO traction, and any exclusive listings
- Lifetime pricing option managed by vendor
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 29 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimalist sports-tech job board in Node.js (Express), Postgres, and React (Vite). Core features in scope: 1) a daily crawler service (Node) that fetches and normalizes job postings from configured feeds and stores them in Postgres; 2) REST API to list, filter (skill, location, seniority, remote), and view job details; 3) a React frontend with search, filters, job list and detail pages and a subscription-gated flag for full-access jobs; 4) Stripe subscription integration for monthly access and gated routes; 5) scheduled email alerts using a provider (SendGrid/Mailgun) for saved searches. Out of scope: employer-facing paid job posting flow and marketplace billing for multiple employers. Include error handling, retries for crawler jobs, schema and unit tests for API routes, Dockerfile and deployment scripts for a single small VPS, and basic monitoring/alerts.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score60
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSportsJobs Online homepage
- official pricingSportsJobs Online pricing section
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
