Ask HN: Would you be interested in this site?

Hello HN. I really respect the HN community and would love to hear your feedback on this. Last Wednesday we launched an invite-only IT community at Talentopoly.com. It's a place for programmers, designers, and IT professoinals to share what they're working on, get feedback, and learn from other talented professionals.

I think there is a serendipity that can happen when you get a few talented developers and designers in a room; conversation leads to hatching new ideas and new ways to approach the design. This can be hard to recreate in a company with only a handful of developers. I've faced this problem myself when I'm working solo on projects. So we created Talentopoly to be a virtual room full of talent to see if we can catch that lightning in a bottle. I think it will be especially useful for freelancers and people working in companies with one or two other developers/designers.

It's invite-only and will probably remain that way. Posts and questions are only visible to the community. Users have profiles and can post their resume. Each user has a certain number of invites they can send out.

Examples of posts would be an awesome pic of something a designer is working on and wants some feedback on, a link to a new jQuery plug-in, asking the community what they listen to while they work, and starting a discussion by posting about the best places to host your new web project. Even finding people to work with you on your next great pet project is a really great way to use the site.

I'm thinking (hoping) that this site might be a good fit for a lot of HN readers. To request an invite just head over to http://www.talentopoly.com and submit your info. We invite a few new users every day.