Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)

Two biggest problems with this:

1. The interface is awful and terribly slow. I don't feel like you can have filtering as a "coming soon" feature when the entire service is based around filtering. Also, I don't know what sort of awful JS is used to power the site but it really needs to go. It feels extremely sluggish (which after browsing Drew's other sites seems to be a theme).

2. It's built entirely on trust and very limited amounts of information. I feel like one could waste a lot of time contacting and vetting prospective collaborators.

I really want to like services like this; finding fellow designers/developers is difficult whether you have a project in mind or not and is really stodgy outside the comfort of referrals. Sadly, this isn't looking like a great fix to the problem (though it is a start).

Ass-slow for me as well. I thought it was broken because none of my clicks did anything. But it was just slow.

The secretly not-working search was really annoying.

"App ideas" - wow that's just annoying, but is so because you must know by now about how HN feels about ideas.

Overall good start, and a good problem to tackle but I don't realistically see how this would be any different from those "hire a freelancer" type sites. Don't mistake that for me "hating", rather it would just seem to me that the more users using your site, the more noise you are going to have to deal with. Whether that be "biz-devs" with million dollar ideas or designers straight outta devry, or lowball $20hr programmers.

Actually, unlike other commenters, I found the interface to be pretty fast (I'm on Safari 4.0.4).

I like it. Very cute. We could use some of those fancy GUI tricks on FairSoftware.net, since it's basically the same people finder (with solid legal dealing on top).

have to sign in to see app ideas, contact is via mailo, sort by app ideas?