diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 3d43c2a82..3b8ce925d 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -4,9 +4,19 @@ import PreRegister from './preregister';
 import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css';
 import './index.scss';
 
+const hiringMessage = `Hey, you.
+You’re finally awake.
+You were trying to see the code, right?
+Walked right into that hiring message, same as us.
+If you’d like to work on this website and other cool projects with hackathons, send an email over to engineering@coderit.org!`
+
+console.log(hiringMessage);
+
+//comment generated via javascript instead of in HTML so the hiring message text is only in one place
+const comment = document.createComment("\n"+hiringMessage.toString()+"\n");
+document.insertBefore(comment, document.firstChild);
 
 ReactDOM.render(
     <PreRegister/>,
     document.getElementById('root'),
 );
-