For the past year I've been working at this side project, a job board like Upwork. The concept is simple: clients post jobs, users propose to those jobs and eventually someone gets hired.As many of you know, new sites don't magically get people in. Even if I get clients to post jobs, which would be an accomplishment on its own, a new site wouldn't have any resources to read or propose to those jobs. So the plan is to use this huge, public list I have, of people who are looking for job offers.However, even when it is an open, public list, mailing everyone would still be spam, and I don't want to be the one choosing who gets notified. I'd rather have the clients choosing people and sending invitations, pretty much like in Upwork's invite screen.To make it clear, clients sending invitations is absolutely key for the site to work on the early stages. If they don't send invitations, they'll likely won't have anyone proposing to their jobs and won't use the site again.So here's where the dilemma comes:I can make the sending of invitations a necessary step to publish a job, but I feel it's not something people are going to like and I fear it will hurt the product. This is the "not-great product for everyone" case.Or I can make the sending of invitations optional and have all kinds of friendly suggestions and enticements (like making the invites a limited resource) so that clients choose to send the invitations on their own after the job is posted. However, it'd still be optional, and not doing it would break the flow of the site as mentioned above. This is the "not useful product for some" case.What would you guys do? see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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