[garethsprice]

Good grief, talk about manufactured scarcity.

I am a senior developer who takes on side work, but I'm too busy working on client projects to be watching your Twitter feed all evening and pasting in codes hoping that one works.

Why not just post an invite code in the thread that's good for 24 hours?

[omarish]

Thanks for your feedback.

We spent a lot of time thinking through a rational strategy that would a) spur a developer list while b) managing growth and ensuring top-quality developers. It could look like manufactured scarcity right now, as we have people coming in from only one channel (HN).

We wanted to test our larger invitation strategy on a smaller cohort of people first, which is why we opted to do invite codes with the HN crowd.

Either way, I couldn't find a twitter or email address in your info. Could you please contact me: [e-mail] / @omarish? I'll pass you an invite code.

Again, thanks for the great feedback.

[garethsprice]

Thanks for the response Omar! Glad to see that you're having trouble keeping up - means that your idea is being well validated!

Here's a few items I noticed after logging in that I e-mailed to you, thought I'd post here to see if anyone else on HNN had feedback.

After signing in:

1. Would be good to see a list of projects that have already been submitted that can be searched, or if you're e-mail focused, an archive of past projects.

2. Would also be interesting to see a list of other users (if they opt in to the public list?) and/or information on what other skills people are listing.

3. Also, as it's an invite-only site it does have some level of exclusivity, so a public profile with a dofollow link to my website would be another incentive to sign up and maintain my profile. Actually, the exclusivity angle might be an interesting way of attracting high-end/well paying clients (see: A Small World).