I've been using ODesk for about a month to outsource some fairly basic HTML and SQL work. I have found that most (not all) of the developers fall into three ca

I've been using ODesk for about a month to outsource some fairly basic HTML and SQL work. I have found that most (not all) of the developers fall into three categories. 1. There are agencies, usually in Eastern Europe for some reason, that seem to get the work done professionally but are not really much cheaper than just hiring someone into a company. 2. There are the run of the India/Bangladesh contractors, who I swear would be worth every penny if there could be an easy way to overcome the communication challenges (I've had to throw out lots of code and $). 3. The elusive great coders. I have to admit I have not been able to find the third kind yet, but I read lots of comments on boards from people who swear they exist. I am getting to a point that I am considering hiring someone part time just to manage the second kind of coders. I figure if I can have a part time person who can adequate reduce the batch size then maybe communication challenges won't matter as much. All of this to say: as a person paying ODesk coders, I think the problem you are pointing to is a two-way street. I would be willing to pay 100% premium over what I am paying if there was something like hiretheworld.com. I could post the wireframe of what I want, put a price on what I'm willing to pay for it. Have people build it and then pay for the code I choose to use. I know this is impractical for lots of reasons, but I don't see why with an adequately small batch it could not be done. I know this is not helpful, but what I am saying I guess is if you build something like hiretheworld version of ODesk, you have at least one client.