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At any given time there are thousands of startups.

Sure, but thousands of startups looking for employees? It just strikes me as a small niche, and one that may be hard to make money at.

Having said that though, I can see it being useful for people like me. There's nothing worse than looking on a standard job site and seeing pages of "corporate type jobs asking for a list of meaningless buzzwords". But I'm a very very small minority :)

Considering that a) recruiting fees can be up to tens of thousands of dollars and b) recruiting the right employees is crucial to a startup's success (much more than a big business), it's a high value niche.

Very true, but does that mean a startup is going to pay startuply a massive fee for finding those crutial employees? Is startuply going to ask for equity? :/

If they people on startuply are measurably and consistently better, wouldn't it be worth paying more for?

Yes, it is a small niche at the moment, but there is no reason that the world economy can't shift to comprise many more startups and fewer crappy desk jobs. Paul Graham has argued eloquently for this (e.g. http://paulgraham.com/boss.html).

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