Why I built mahajob.in

In India, if you’re hiring a software engineer, you have Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed, and a dozen others. If you’re 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’s the gap. The huge, everyday world of SME, blue-collar, and grey-collar jobs has no portal that actually fits it. And the people looking for those jobs are, for the most part, not tech-savvy — they’re not comfortable navigating Naukri or Indeed, which were designed for white-collar professionals uploading polished PDFs.

So what happens instead? Companies hire through employment agencies — which 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 ends up paying the most, for the least trust.

Why has no one fixed this? Because for a big brand like Naukri, this segment is low margin. The players big enough to build it have no reason to, and the people who need it can’t build it themselves. It just sat there, unglamorous and ignored.

Here’s what changed: AI made building the thing cheap. A focused website that connects job seekers with employers across Maharashtra — the kind of project that would once have needed a team and a budget — is now something one person can build and run. So I did.

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

None of this is glamorous. It’s not a frontier model or a clever paper. It’s a plain website solving a plain problem for people the tech industry usually forgets. But that’s exactly the kind of problem I want to spend my time on — the unglamorous ones that tech can quietly solve. mahajob.in is my first real crack at it. It won’t be the last.