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Hi Elliot,

Thanks for your comment.

Receiving honest and brutal feedback is the only way we're going to move this thing forward.

I made this post long before many of those comments and as a response to the significant amount of people who kindly decided to join our mailing list, resulting in our site shutting down multiple time due to an unprecedented level of traffic.

Please try the blog post link again. If not try it later tonight or tomorrow. We will evaluate later on today what's the best step to take as a team, and this after taking all of the comments into consideration.

If you have any other concerns, please feel free to address them.

Best, Jonathan Etienne

CEO of Recruitly.co

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Here is some honest and brutal feedback: No one is going to buy the idea that your site went down due to the number of people giving you their email. It went down due to the amount of traffic. I doubt the HN crowd was clamoring to hand over their email to a generic looking, templated landing page with no product to actually see.

Thanks for your comment.

I would be more than happy to share with you my mail chimp mailing list, but out of respect and privacy for the user I will not. I am not trying to sell, and quite frankly i have little to gain in selling "this idea" to anybody.

There's lots to be learned here today, and we are ready to adjust because as you know this startup world is all about learning. When we do have the product up and running, i'll make sure that our server are ready to accommodate an unexpected, and large amount of traffic.

However, before even getting to that stage we have learned that we need to communicate better, and will use many comments here to refine our idea, our approach, and the way we convey it to the public.

As for "generic looking, templated landing page with no product to actually see." We actually built the landing page from the ground up. but we recognize there's room for improvement.

In our landing page, at the bottom right there is a little widget called "feedback" if you click on it you can not only comment but draw specific areas you have concerns with, or leave your specific concerns here, whichever is easier.

Any feedback is of tremendous value.

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