How is this different from a job board or an agency?
Short answer
A job board assumes a salary and a hiring process. An agency assumes a retainer and a client relationship. Most of the arrangements we are interested in are neither — revenue shares, equity splits, straight swaps of skills between two people who found each other and decided to work together.
The longer version
A job board assumes a salary, a vacancy and a hiring process, which means it assumes the developer has money and wants an employee. Most of the people this is aimed at have neither. An agency assumes a retainer and a client relationship, which assumes the same thing with extra overhead.
The arrangements this is actually interested in are the ones that sit outside both: revenue shares, equity splits, a straight swap of skills, a small retainer with upside. Two people who found each other, agreed something that suited them, and got on with it.
Which also means it is not trying to be the counterparty. There is no managed process, no vetting fee, no contract template imposed from above. The introduction is the product; what happens after is between the two of them.
The full argument, with the rest of the picture around it:
What Push & Pitch Is, And Why It Might Not Exist