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Hey guys, the Settings page bugs should be fixed now. Thanks!

We're working on fixing it right now! Thanks for the feedback.

@scottyallen Thanks! Short and self-contained is kind of the ideal for us, too. We think lots of good developers like that kind of work so they have the free mindshare for their other big ideas.

@dbalatero Yeah, that's taken from our personal experience and preference for no long term commitments in contract work. I'm glad you like the idea!

Sorry guys, we're working on that. Should be fixed soon.

@rpwilcox Yes, that requirement is taken from our personal experience / preferences. We like contract work because it's varied and interesting, but we don't want a long term commitment that turns into a full-time job.

@angryasian Well, we are starting with the invite codes on Hacker News because we feel like developer quality is probably pretty good here and we need to get the site going. We are working right now on a more long term way to scale up the number of developers and still maintain high quality.

@jlvarner Sorry, we'll look into this.

@rhizome Yes, that's a good point. We really want to focus on quality - both for developers and projects. That's why we're using invite codes. We're starting with them on Hacker News because we want to get things rolling, but we will focus on curating more.

Yeah, we need to put that on there today. This was really going for the minimum viable product. We wanted to see if there was interest, and apparently there is!

Hey guys, we just hacked together this little site for casual contracting. The premise is there's no long-term commitment / equity payment nonsense. This is for small, quick cash jobs that take less than 40 hours (maybe a website proof of concept, for example). We think RentACoder, Elance and the like are too centered on heavyweight, long-term projects with extended commitments. We'd hope this would be something a Hacker News user might use to earn some extra money on the side. There are invite codes on Twitter http://twitter.com/casualcontract.