Why I built mahajob.in, a job board for local hiring

In India, if you are hiring a software engineer, you have Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed and a dozen others. If you are a small business in a Tier-2 town looking for a shop assistant, a delivery rider, an electrician, a receptionist or a factory hand, you have almost nothing built for you.

That is the gap. The everyday world of SME, blue-collar and grey-collar jobs has no portal that fits it. Most of the people looking for those jobs are not tech-savvy. They are not comfortable on Naukri or Indeed, which were designed for white-collar professionals uploading polished PDFs.

So companies hire through employment agencies instead. Agencies charge the employer a hefty fee, often charge the job seeker too, and are riddled with scams and middlemen who take money and deliver nothing. The person who can least afford it pays the most, for the least trust.

No one fixed this because the segment is low margin. The players big enough to build it have no reason to, and the people who need it cannot build it themselves. It sat there, unglamorous and ignored.

Then AI made building the thing cheap. A focused website connecting job seekers with employers across Maharashtra once needed a team and a budget. Now one person can build and run it. So I did.

mahajob.in is that site. Employers post jobs, job seekers apply, and it is free for everyone. No agency fee, no charging the person looking for work. It is slowly gaining traction: real jobs get posted, real people apply.

None of this is glamorous. It is not a frontier model or a clever paper. It is a plain website solving a plain problem for people the tech industry usually forgets, and that is the kind of problem I want to spend my time on. mahajob.in is my first real crack at it. It will not be the last.