As others have mentioned, invites are distributed automatically based on your activity on WIP.

Reaching certain streak milestones are one way, but it's not required. Just using the site will eventually lead to receiving invites.

Thank you for spreading the word by the way 🙌

I hear you on the applicants being a rather homogenous group. To some extent, that's the nature of a niche community (attracting similar people), but I agree it's both refreshing and valuable to see a variety of people working on different types of projects in their own ways.

1) Are there any specific alternatives to Twitter you recommend I could add support for?

The reason I like Twitter is that the way many people use it, it gives you a decent insight in what type of person they are and thus whether they'd be a good fit. Are there other platforms with a similar characteristic?

2) What type of search / filtering would be useful?

To be honest, I do wonder to what extent I want to invest in developing the applicant functionality. Because it seems barely used and most new members tend to come in via referrals instead. Which might be a more natural way to grow the community and vet new members anyway.

I'm thinking of ways to further incentivize this. Like allowing you to connect your social media profiles and inviting your existing contacts with a single click. But to your point, perhaps we should support more than just Twitter for this. So here too I'm curious what other platforms you think would be a good addition?

Thanks for your input as always!

👆 Removed the feature a while ago because it was barely used and complicated the code and UX a lot.

I've reached out to them to see if they have any "best practices" for joining. Perhaps there's a way to pre-approve WIP members as well. Seems counter productive for them to auto reject legit companies.

I've read about this. I think you need to sign up using a company email account.

Yes great idea! I've been working on the onboarding for new users, and adding a default #life project (and explaining it) seems like a good addition.

Same for the homepage filter 👍

Haha, that WOULD be a good incentive wouldn't it

Sorry, but I have to be firm on the paid requirement. Otherwise I'd have to extend this free plan to everyone who's ever received an invite but didn't redeem it.

Let's say you invite someone that subscribes to the $199/year plan. Then you'd earn 30% commission on that $199 = $59.70/year for as long as they stay subscribed.

I'm not sure this is something I want to do as it cuts down into my profit margins a lot, but I do like the idea of having some incentive/reward for referring new members.

Do the bare medium necessary to move forward with the launch