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We decided to focus on the employer side of things at launch, for several reasons:

* We have to start somewhere

* Easier to ship a tightly-focused product, easier to build a message around it.

* Not sure where the revenue is on the candidate side.

* Honestly, it's just scratching our itch :)

We've given some thought to the candidate side, and hope to do something there in the future, though. You're spot on about the recruiter firms.

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As someone who is looking for a job, I'd be more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks if I knew it would put me in contact with people I'd want to work with.

Right now on the candidate side of things it's pretty much the same situation. Go through job listings, send resumes to any that sound interesting, do about 4 phone interviews a week, pass on roughly 3 of them because they either aren't working on something I find interesting, the position itself isn't something I'd enjoy, or my gut tells me to walk away due to the impression I got from the person I talked to. I will pay you to not have to deal with this.

This may be totally stupid, but couldn't you have a database of companies looking for a job ("need 8+ PHP, 6+ MySQL") and developers ("have 7 PHP, 7 MySQL, 9 Ruby on Rails")? Of course, actually getting that going would be difficult, but Monsterboard et al. seem to be making a lot of money...

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