Isn't a more interesting pitch telling folks that they can reach millions of users with a team that is solving interesting technical problems using pretty bad ass technology?

I come from a background in writing financial software so I'd personally rather reach a few users willing to pay for some bad ass software than to reach millions who receive (or perceive) such a marginal benefit from the software that they aren't willing to pay for it.

I got to play with some pretty cool tech (http://bit.ly/FredPatent) and get a decent cheque at the end of the month (to be fair I was probably paid more in line your pay scale than facebook's)

I'm sort of solidly in the DHH school of startups where you should be charging for your software. If your software provides value to people they should be willing to pay for it, or you should be attracting a valuable audience that you can sell to advertisers.

It sounds like catch.com is making money (decent size team, lots of press) so kudos to you guys building a great product.

edit: I saw on your twitter feed that catch raised $7mm. definite congrats on that one!

FB has two orders of magnitude more users than us, but also two orders of magnitude more engineers.

I'd rather be engineer number 11 with us, than number 1001 at FB.

We put an ad on CL (they charge in SF) for a JavaScript developer and didn't get any promising resumes.

Everybody is looking for awesome JS folk.

It probably doesn't help that we are using fairly advanced framework like Google Closure for our webapp. Maybe that is intimidating for some people?

MongoDB and Python coolness, mixed with some Google Closure. =)