We can talk economics and service charges till the cows come home, but it's not going to change anything.
Do you think anything can be done with our service request forum to make it easier for both clients to make their requests as detailed as possible and for coders to easily search constraints for requests to pull up services that they would be interested in....these constraints could be:
Skills required, Deadline, Budget, etc...etc....?
I am just throwing out ideas.