How does the website make money?
Advertisement?
Paid acounts?
Or do you take an x% of the money which is for the problem solver?

This is an interesting idea. You could certainly do it from a technology standpoint, but how big do you think the market would be for people who have this kind of problem to solve? Getting the coders to solve problems probably wouldn't be difficult especially with the promise of potential payment, but this site would only work for a limited set of problems. In many (most) cases I've dealt with, the client is not willing to publish their business details and problem specs publicly. They want a coder to sign an NDA before they even disclose the details of the problem space. Certainly there are projects where disclosure is no problem, but I think a lot of contract programming would would avoid this kind of forum because it's way too public.

@JeimerBV:
I'm thinking I would take an x%, put up advertisements, and add services later on such as security testing and various other development related services.

@ micco:
Yeah that's one of the difficulties I'm facing, I really just want to get something up and running. I mean I was thinking with sites like getafreelancer and rentacoder more and more people are disclosing their problems online and asking for entire solutions. This would be for smaller projects without exposing all your code.

Well you don't have to expose your code, the program would go in and insert the code where you would like it. The only thing the coder is doing is solving some of your problem and then they could sign an NDA or some other contract you may have. You just have to let them know how to design the program or functions.

@micco:
I wanted to clarify when I say "the program would go in" I mean that when the solver uploads his solution, the server side would go in. Additionally, the solver would receive the client's binaries for test purposes or if the client is too nervous they could provide test cases for just the program/function in question. The binaries/code are only provided if the solver is trying to insert some kind of function/program in the middle of their existing code base and they do not want to or cannot write test cases for their problem.

Might end up being a "do my homework for me" site.

have seen similar ideas posted here at CH

a problem solver site... Im afraid it has limited solutions to offer.

Their are lot's of proffesional sites that do exactly this.
Tommy

You can earn in some cases 100.000 dollar or more.
Not just 'some cash'.
Tommy

does that mean that this idea is done already?

Could you point me to some sites that are doing what I'm stating?

I'm doing a solution before payment process so its unlike freelancer where you have to choose a team to create a solution. Instead you choose a solution from a team. I'm trying to set this up as a competition site and that would create incentive to "play" and then the prize happens to be cash.

Also, could you link to the previous ideas that are similar.

Sounds like an idea right out of Wikinomics.

I'm not sure if that's a positive comment or an implication of banality. If you could please further clarify how I should differentiate my idea or build on top of a solid foundation.

there has been a few of these ideas on CH

me like this...

I like your thinking process and feel that this is an excellent idea.

This is an excellent idea