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It has crossed my mind that there's a need for a "hacker gigs" sort of job board. It would handle both contract gigs and full-time jobs for hackers, designers and the like, with an emphasis on attracting the sort of people who hang out here.

Quick survey: would you use something like that? To find jobs? To advertise jobs?

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I'd definitely used this kind of board, but I think there are web sites like e-lance or RAC for this, although level of the bigger part of devs there is low, but most of the companies hang there and everyone know that if you want to post job you must go there. In opposition I don't think a big number of job providers visits boards like this one.

A big number would not be a goal; people we would enjoy working with is the goal. So many project posted on other sites want code designed to run on $5/month shared hosting and offer to pay $100 for several hours, if not days of work.

What I have in mind would be low-volume, but high S/N ratio.

I would definitely use such a board for contract gigs. Full time gigs if I happened to lose my full time job or see a great startup.

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