Skills, sourcing, and 1,000 dibs: what shipped on ZZP2ZZP

ZZP2ZZP is growing into a place where independent professionals and serious clients find each other on more than a CV keyword. This morning we shipped a first wave of platform features aimed at that: clearer skills on your profile, a fairer welcome into the 3DN family economy with DutchBud dibs, and a simple way to bring a peer along.

This is a technical product note — what you can use today — not a deep dive into our internals.

Skills on your profile

Every member can now manage a multi-select list of skills on their profile. Those skills are first-class on ZZP2ZZP: they sit on your login, they power how we talk about matching people to project work, and they stay under your control. Add what you actually deliver — Terraform, PostgreSQL, HR, architecture, whatever defines your craft as an independent professional.

If you already had an account, we backfilled skills where our sourcing already knew you. You can always edit the list yourself under Profile.

Our sourcing and the welcome path

Behind the scenes, our sourcing looks for freelancers and specialists who already show up as serious operators — people with real skills, not empty profiles. When someone fits, we can send a targeted welcome that speaks to those skills, not a generic blast.

The public invite story is simple: join ZZP2ZZP, claim your place, keep the skills that make you legible to clients and peers. No fee to explore. The point is better matching for ZZP / freelancer talent and the clients who hire them.

We will not turn this into a surveillance product. Sourcing is how we find people worth inviting; your profile is how you present yourself once you are in.

DutchBud signup premium: 1,000 dibs

New and existing members get a DutchBud wallet in the 3DN family ledger, with a 1,000 dibs signup premium. Dibs are closed-loop virtual credits inside the network — a scoreboard for contribution and reciprocity, not euro cash-out. You can open the wallet from the confirmation mail or from your profile.

That welcome amount is one-time per account email. It is there so early adopters can try payments and micropayment-style project steps when those flows open wider — without buying chips at the door.

Refer a friend

On your profile you will find a personal refer a friend link. Share it. When someone signs up through that link, you earn another 1,000 dibs. The invitee still gets their own signup premium. Self-referral does not count.

This is how we want growth to work: peer introduction, not spam lists.

What to do next

1. Sign in and open Profile.
2. Review and edit your skills.
3. Copy your refer-a-friend link if you know someone who should be here.
4. Open DutchBud when you are ready to see your dibs balance.

More matching, micropayments for project steps, and infra flying starts are on the roadmap we already sketched on the invite page. Today’s release is the foundation: skills you own, a wallet that welcomes you, and a clean way to invite the next serious entrepreneur.

— The ZZP2ZZP team