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Comment by jaredbrown | Hacker News Reader

Almost forgot to mention the most important aspect, the site is invite-only. It's read-only to the public.

This becomes confusing - it seems at first like a social bookmarking site, but then there's resumes. It's a gated community, but read only to the public.

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 idea behind the hosting of resumes is because the goal is to have it be one of the websites you check everyday. And for designers looking for developers, IT professionals looking for designers, and vice versa -- you can qualify potential co-work partners.

Not really a job board -- but a easier way for IT pro's to share that aspect. We've had people be contacted because of their talentopoly hosted resume already from some of the big boys -- so that function is getting noticed.

I think the simple answer is that it's a community serving the needs of this vertical, which includes things like learning from what others are posting and also finding others to hire and work with. That's where the resumes and profiles come into play.

Pinterest, Dribbblr, and Quora in the early days were all invite-only and read-only to the public. I don't think it's confusing at all. However, you would benefit from exposing some awesome content on the home page to entice people to request an invite.

Great comment. Currently the site exposes the most popular post at the moment under the section, "What's on Talentopoly" on the landing page.

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.

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