GameJobHunter

What GameJobHunter does

GameJobHunter was a niche vertical job board serving the video game industry, founded around 2008 by Paul Teall as a personal side project based in New Orleans. The site aggregated open positions at game development companies and served as a centralized resource for job seekers pursuing roles in the gaming sector. The platform operated as a single-product offering with no modular extensions, no disclosed technology stack, and no proprietary technical features documented. The site was a self-contained job listing product, reliant on manual curation by its founder rather than automated matching or search capabilities.

The business had no disclosed revenue model and no evidence of monetization on either side of the marketplace. The site appears to have been offered free of charge to job seekers, with no formal employer-paid job posting tier, no sales motion, and no institutional or venture backing. Growth was entirely organic, driven by word-of-mouth within the game development community. Over its ~16-year lifespan, the site was operated as a labor-of-love side project: several people contributed in the early years (with Cory involved the longest), and for the final approximately five years, Paul Teall was the sole operator.

In 2024, Paul Teall announced the shutdown of the site, citing that increased demands from his full-time job had left him with effectively zero time to maintain the platform. The shutdown notice directed displaced users to three alternative job sites (GrackleHQ, GameDevMap, and WorkWithIndies). The closure marked the end of a bootstrapped, non-commercial community resource rather than the wind-down of a revenue-generating business, and the founder left open a qualified possibility of future return without committing to one.

Name

GameJobHunter

Website

https://gamejobhunter.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GameJobHunter was a niche job board serving video game industry job seekers, founded around 2008 by Paul Teall. The site operated as a free, bootstrapped side project and was shut down in 2024 due to the founder's time constraints.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Game Distribution Platforms & Storefronts (PC/Mobile/Console) (MPAFABAB)

Keywords

• Game industry job board
• Video game jobs
• Game development careers
• Game jobs listing
• Game industry employment

Headquarters

HQ city

New Orleans

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Freemium: No revenue model disclosed. The site appears to have been free for users and operated as a labor of love side project without generating revenue.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

GameJobHunter operated a single, curated online job board website that aggregated and listed open positions in the video game and game development industry. The site functioned as a centralized resource where game companies posted openings and individual job seekers could browse relevant opportunities, with content personally curated and maintained by founder Paul Teall since approximately 2008. The site was free for users and operated as a personal side project until it was shut down in 2024.

Product overview

GameJobHunter was a single-product job board offering for the game industry, functioning as a centralized job listing platform where game companies posted open positions and job seekers could find opportunities in game development. The product was a unified, self-contained job board without modular add-ons or related sub-products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GameJobHunter

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• GrackleHQminorOthersReferenced alternative job site recommended to GameJobHunter users upon site shutdown. Not a formal partnership.
• GameDevMapminorOthersReferenced alternative job site recommended to GameJobHunter users upon site shutdown. Not a formal partnership.
• WorkWithIndiesminorOthersReferenced alternative job site recommended to GameJobHunter users upon site shutdown. Not a formal partnership.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Game Developer (Gamasutra): Long-running game-industry publication that includes a job board as part of a broader content offering. Comparable as a destination for game-industry job seekers, though its job board is one feature among many editorial products.
• GamesIndustry.biz: Major game-industry trade publication with an integrated jobs section. Overlaps with GameJobHunter's audience of game-industry professionals and hiring companies, but operates as a broad media outlet rather than a pure-play job board.
• LinkedIn: Generalist professional network with extensive game-industry job listings and recruiter activity. Represents the broad incumbent alternative to niche job boards like GameJobHunter, capturing a large share of game-industry hiring flows.

Direct peers

• Hitmarker: Dedicated job board for the video game and esports industries. Operates in the same niche as GameJobHunter, connecting game-industry employers with job seekers, and is the most active scaled direct peer in the vertical.
• WorkWithIndies: Job board focused on indie game studios and small game companies. Named by GameJobHunter's founder as a recommended alternative, indicating it serves an overlapping audience of game-industry job seekers and employers.
• GrackleHQ: Niche job and community platform for the game industry. It is one of the three sites Paul Teall explicitly recommended to GameJobHunter users at shutdown, making it the most directly comparable successor in the same vertical.
• GameDevMap: Curated directory and resource hub for the game development community, including job-related signals. Listed as one of GameJobHunter's recommended alternatives upon shutdown, sharing the same vertical-community positioning.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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