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This post comes up regularly on HN, and a comment like yours is pretty much guaranteed to accompany it. I wonder why such a site has yet to exist?
What if we made a site where ideas could be posted, along with the likely resources required (programmers, marketers etc.) and interested parties could sign on to them. An idea which garnered a full group could spin off into a project/company. The site wouldn't make money but would be valuable for the participants, and would be fitting as a derivative of YC, which finds companies from the very beginning.
1) You apply for the position you want. If a project needs a JS guy, and you're a JS guy, you apply for that position.
2) To keep people from applying for every single JS position available, there is a $100, sign on fee. This fee is kept in escrow, and if you are not selected as the JS guy, it's returned to you. Until a decision is made, it's out of your account, so you can't apply to 100 projects at once.
3) Once your application is accepted, and you become the JS guy, you lose your $100 permanently, and are possibly asked for more money as well. At completion of this transaction, you are now "one of the founders". You now review resumes of other applicants, and vote on them. Applicant with the most votes becomes "the mechanical engineer guy", for example, and he buys in to the company, and helps vote for the next guys, and so on.