Just curious as to how the payment part of this would work? It's a great idea - something you could build out (a vetted list of top-quality freelancers available to work on your project? People would love that).<p>If there is a vetted list of freelancers all of the same, trusted, standard, it could be that having individual minimums creates a 'race to the bottom' thing that other places have. I would have a fixed price per hour which is slightly above average, with a guarantee of high-quality return and efficiency.<p>If you can get members to work with and look over projects they're not attached to (feedback etc) you could increase the value of the service as a whole.
OP here: I, like many others, experience times of great abundance and shortage of freelancing work. The idea of having a vetted/endorsed network of freelancers I can trust to send overflow work was something that appeals to me on both sides. I thought using GitHub as the vehicle for maintaining such a community was an open and hacker-friendly way of doing it.<p>I welcome any feedback on the concept!