This great concept and as someone who hires agencies/consultant semi-regularly it's surprisingly time consuming to find good options beyond the obvious names. And frustrating when you know there are a bunch out there to be found but get buried in the forest.

To make this usable I feel you need at a minimum 1) location filtering as a main point 2) Public feedback on agencies from their hires. Without this it's hard for me to trust, or filter agencies via the work they do well vs all the options they claim, especially as options grow. 3) You need to allow clients to post jobs and let the agencies chase them. Currently the onus is on the job owner to chase an agency. Often the reason I use these services is to save time as our internal resource is booked vs lack of skill-set. The more time you save me the more I'm attracted to your platform.

Good luck as I hope someone can build a quality version of an Elance type site.

Hi Hacker News! Today I pushed live an update to HireGun, which is my company aimed at bringing transparency to the consulting industry while connecting businesses with marketers (to start)!

HireGun is very upstream from eLance/Upwork and focused on businesses who don't have a Fortune 500 level online marketing budget, but also can afford more than $50 for a Twitter bot army.

There are a few more versions already planned with more around consultant/agency partner transparency, making the lives of service providers easier with payment support, and more. It's early days, but I'm excited to be working on it fulltime after wanting to for a few years now!

I'd love your questions and feedback!

Awesome to see your hard work pay off John, the your silent army stands behind you.