[atlasunshrugged]

Cool, on the first point, that's fair. I've also been at startups where they ask us to just list all the interesting people we know and would like to work with and then they just take that info and prospect them independently; sounds like you're just productizing that process which is great.

On the last point, interesting, I guess you will have to take a lot of time at the beginning to do your own screening of all the referred people to make sure they meet your standards before you decide a scout is any good and needs less supervision than others.

2 other things:

1) It says only software engineers can apply. I sort of understand but wonder if you'd consider making exceptions - I was early on at Gigster (another YC co but doing software development as a service with a network of freelance engineers) and some similar co's and so although I'm not an engineer, I have a ton of great ones in my network.

2) It says you're not available in my geographic area. Where are you recruiting from?

[amitsy]

Great. On 2, we are currently live in US and India so are available in that geography. We couldn't do much about recommendations coming from other geographies (as we don't have many partner companies there) so have put that limit. On 1, yeah, we do make exceptions there. we have not yet decided if we want to keep it a hard limit but we are sure that we would want recommendations from people that would have definitely worked directly with software engineers.

[atlasunshrugged]

Ah, my fault on point 2, I'm on vacay in Uganda and didn't turn on my VPN but usually in the U.S. Sounds good, very cool idea and I'll be signing up shortly

[amitsy]

Awesome! Looking forward to have you as a user :)