Beta — Founding Contributors & feedback

Terminalhire runs an invite-only beta. Founding Contributors help shape the core while it's still baking, and get a direct line to the person who ships the fixes. Like everything else, joining is opt-in and consent-first — nothing about you crosses the wire until you type "yes".

Join the beta

terminalhire beta          # opt-in wizard: the deal, then a typed-yes to join

The wizard is a short, keyboard-driven flow: it explains the two asks and the four rewards, then asks you to type "yes" to join, plus a separate (default-off) choice about whether to be listed publicly as a Founding Contributor. On success you get your Founding Contributor number.

Joining sends only your public-listing choice, under the session you linked with terminalhire link. If this terminal isn't linked yet, the wizard points you at terminalhire link and sends nothing. The beta is allowlisted — your GitHub login has to be on the invite list. If it isn't yet, you're placed on the waitlist instead; the wizard tells you which of the two happened. Re-running terminalhire beta later is a pure status re-check — it sends nothing new, and picks up your membership the moment an invite lands.

Send feedback

terminalhire feedback      # structured feedback, straight to the founder

feedback asks a few short questions — what you were trying to do, expected vs. actual, quick 1–5 ratings (all skippable), and what almost made you quit — then shows you the exact payload before anything is sent and waits for a typed "yes". Everything is what you type; the only things auto-attached are your CLI version and OS — no fingerprint, no telemetry, no scraping of your commands.

What's local vs. what crosses the wire

Feedback and joining are the only beta actions that send anything, they're both gated behind an explicit typed consent, and both go under your linked web session — never your GitHub token. See Privacy architecture for the full picture of what stays local across every surface.