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talentopoly.com
talentopoly.com
Keeping it a gated community is going to make taking off VERY difficult, unless you have some over-sharing, highly prolific people in out of the gate (no pun intended).
While there may be groups that do want to keep their sharing semi-private, are there enough to build a meaningful audience (read: potential advertising revenue stream) for the service, or will you just charge for it (saw no mention of this, but may have missed it).
The site has close to 100 return visitors daily and building.
Revenue is not a concern at the moment.
How many of those users actually post content?
On the front-end optimisation end, that's my "thing" so hit me up if you want to talk about that!
The CV aspect is fairly unique to this sort of site, which is why I think it gets so much attention in these discussions. But as you can see it is a smaller aspect to the site compared to posts, questions, and even profiles.
The CV feature is rooted in this desire I had to host my resume, shown in its original formatting, on a clean, uncluttered page with stats showing me how many views it gets, by whom, and from where. I can share it with a simple link to anyone interested in seeing it and actually know with some certainty if they looked at it.
That actually seems like a reasonable idea. The problem you may have is that a site like Stackoverflow could (and IMHO should) copy it and integrate it into what they have. It actually seems like a good extension for the SO model.
When I was doing newslily (which isn't entirely abandoned, but we've moved on to new projects), we pretty consistently had better quality links than reddit or digg, but doing so took a ton of work on the part of my co-founder and I.
I haven't signed up for OP's service, so I can't say with certainty that it's a link aggregator, but that's what it sounds like. If it is, I suspect that OP is spending a lot of their time searching out quality content.
And if this is the case, good on them. They're probably learning a ton in the process.
What are your experience with ruby on rails hosted with heroku?
I think there's room for both as I am a Forrst member and still found myself wanting to build something like Talentopoly.
I'm not sure any of this is BAD, and I may just be stupid, but the 'why the hell should I care' bit seems to be confusing? Is it a job board, or a news/content sharing site? Both?
The next step I planned to take was to expose the Posts tab on the landing page.
Down the road I expect to make the landing page the popular posts page and the Request Invite links would take you to what is now the landing page (the request an invite page).
That's the 3-step process for exposing the posts more and more as I currently have it planned.