GroomJobs
I started it as a job board for the pet-grooming trade. Today it’s free career and hiring guides, plus calculators that run in your browser, for groomers and salon owners.
- My role
- Creator
- Built with
- AI-assisted development
- For
- Professional and aspiring pet groomers, and grooming-salon owners and hiring managers
- Status
- Publishing experiment
The problem
Groomers lack industry-specific guidance on pay, portfolios and career paths, and salon owners lack practical hiring and retention resources.
Who it’s for
Professional and aspiring pet groomers, and grooming-salon owners and hiring managers.
What I did
I conceived it and built it with AI-assisted development, and I make the product and publishing decisions.
Decisions that shaped it
Specific beats generic
Commission, tips, booth rent and dogs-per-day each get their own calculator.
Retire honestly
When the marketplace was retired, its old pages began returning a clear “gone” response instead of misleading redirects.
A time-boxed experiment
The current site runs on a fixed publishing cadence, with a planned point to decide whether to continue, maintain or archive it.
What’s built
- Career and hiring guides for groomers and salon owners
- Browser-only calculators for pricing, commission, tips, capacity and booth rent
- Articles on pay, careers and running a salon
Constraints
- No accounts required, and calculator inputs never leave the browser.
- Analytics only with consent.
- Every article passes an editorial review. Unsupported statistics were removed.