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I hope I’m not making a strawman of your idea. So you want developers to work for free on whatever it is a company wants, with the only caveat that the dev gets

I hope I’m not making a strawman of your idea. So you want developers to work for free on whatever it is a company wants, with the only caveat that the dev gets to choose the tech stack? What is the value of the platform to the dev at that point? They can do that already without a middleman telling them what to work on. Furthermore, what company wants free work that might be totally irrelevant if the tech stacks don’t align?

Towaway69 3y ago
The idea is that the developer gets to try out their tech stack on a real world problem. How many folks here have an itch and start developing something that scratches that itch and then don't know what the next step is. Now imagine being able to try out that solution in a bigger space. Will it work, will it fail, who knows. I as a developer want to try it out, the company has the risk that it will work and then they need to deal with the fact that their existing tech stack can't solve all their problems.