www.thumbtack.com
Also, we're looking to hire a front-end ninja in case you or anyone you know might be interested. Thanks.
We got lucky with the domain, and we're able to finance it.
what you can't do on redbeacon is browse service providers' profiles. redbeacon seems to want to segregate the two sides so that they can arbitrage the leads, but it leads to an incomplete user experience.
on thumbtack you can post a wanted ad or browse an available service and book people directly.
Otherwise, nice clean design.
As someone constantly on the look out for development people to outsource parts of projects to, this could be very helpful. The problem I see is that there are professional and unprofessional services combined. Nevertheless, Having a place where I could post an RFQ and have 4 local professionals respond immediately while not getting bombarded with junk mail would be great!