Who is the target market for this site? The repeated use of the term 'jobs' implies some sort of payment or longer term collaboration, but the interface seems to look like an idea in the vein of up-for-grabs issues within FLOSS projects.
The target audience for GitMeet includes any developer who is working on an open source project and needs other contributors to fix bugs or work on subprojects within the repository. GitMeet provides popup tips to encourage users to contribute to projects they have joined and enables project creators to award "developer reputation" to developers who have provided helpful contributions to the project. Currently there are no payments involved with GitMeet, however, the main goal of the site is to encourage long term collaboration on a project.
So looking at the site, it seems like the main intended differentiators are the reputation system and the recommendation system (from users to projects). Both of these sorts of ideas require you to get a critical mass of users & projects.
Do you have any plans for getting an active userbase?
Currently, I am trying to start small by providing ways to enable current users to alert others to their projects and jobs via built-in twitter notifications. Also, I plan to post actively on GitMeet's blog about topics surrounding use of the platform, opensource software in general, and how developers on GitMeet can best utilize the developer recommendation system. Do you think the plan mentioned is a sensible one? Also, are there any other methods of gaining an active user base that would be more effective?
I think the plan is sensible, but not that realistic in terms of being able to reach a critical mass. If I was in your position I would integrate much more closely with external services (github/twitter/etc) to hopefully make it feasible to have stuff like recommendations work effectively with a much smaller user base.
Thank you for your feedback. As I add design/add additional features to GitMeet, how can I also be attracting users to reach critical mass? While the ideas that I originally outlined are certainly sensible, is there anything in particular that I am missing in my approach? Are there other ways of spreading the word about GitMeet? Thank you for your thoughts and time!
Do you have any plans for getting an active userbase?