Earlier this year, I decided to write a better job board for tech jobs in South Africa. Specifically, I wanted a place where people could post and look for jobs without having to deal with recruitment agents. Thus, techboard.co.za was born. I put quite a few days worth of work into the site,  teaching myself Rails 3 as I went along. Alas, after launching it, the big bang I expected never happened. I thought that there would be a big demand for this kind of thing, but it turns out I was wrong. I also learned the hard way that marketing…read more