Focussing on a niche works sometimes. But in this case it might be a tough fight. In any marketplaces your fighting fires at two ends, the buyer and sellers. H

Focussing on a niche works sometimes. But in this case it might be a tough fight. In any marketplaces your fighting fires at two ends, the buyer and sellers. Here your basic problem would be to get sufficient number of jobs for providers to signup. That'll be hard given elance and others already do that and they've already taken care of one-click payments across the globe). Infact most of the devs on elance are already from 3rd world countries, and the first world people find it hard to compete with lower pricing. Infact going the other way might be lucrative(hypothesis!), i.e. cater to a projects in niche domains, or setting a lower limit on the project/hourly price. This way you're not competing on price, and focusing on quality. There's a dearth of those marketplaces right now.