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SwellJoe: So, this raises a few questions for me:1. Your dismissal of eLance, getacoder, guru, etc. seems questionable, at best.  "non-serious/spam" type posts, I imagine, must be a problem for any site of this sort.  I'm not sure I see how you could prevent it better than they do.  And, I'll mention that I've used rent-a-coder, eLance, and 99designs for work in the past, as a buyer.  All of them worked, by some definition of "work".  But, what you're describing is...different.  It sounds like I can't list my projects, I can't get bids, and I have to do my projects the old fashioned way--find someone via an ad, contact them, beg them to get back to me with a quote for services, etc.  I'm not saying there aren't times when I prefer the old-fashioned way (when I need programming done well, for example, it's simply not possible via the outsourcing sites I've tried), but the reason these sites do well is because it's possible to get quotes from a half dozen providers in a day, and have the project underway in two.2. What do you believe will draw buyers to your site, as opposed to the many, many work for hire sites out there?  Without the buyers, you won't find any providers willing to pay you a dime, much less $250/year.  Why wouldn't they use craigslist, if they want to find a specific talent?  It's either free or $75 to place a want ad on craigs (depending on the market), and you can know that thousands of people will see you ad.  Without lots of eyeballs, Joel's post is nonsensical.  He happened to have a large readership that fit exactly the profile of employers looking for tech employees.3. $250/year for effectively an online listing service?  Are you out of your damned mind?  Again, you'd better have a hugely popular website if you want to pull this off.So, maybe I'm just not grasping the value add you are offering here for buyers or sellers of services.  I'm not saying it's a bad idea...just that I can't think of when I would use such a service (and it sounds kinda like I'm your target demographic: business owner, hires technical talent regularly, and in the past I have been technical talent looking to get hired).