The job market is absolutely disgusting - I'm doing something about it!

I feel like everybody is all too familiar with the current state of the job market these days. I have a couple of things that compounds the usual issues.

The Backstory

With the push towards more onsite requirements, my disability around driving has led to doors slamming in my face, at best. At worst I've had my and my wife's time wasted in a 2-hour in-person interview when they had no intention of hiring me to begin with.

The other thing is more of a "me" problem. I have a career path that's very...non-traditional. I've always felt misunderstood and like I can't properly articulate my value in a 2 page resume. I'm one of those people who don't fit neatly into a box. Great for living life, bad for finding employment.

I recently took a moment to really evaluate my job situation. Like, really dig into it. Like, when I optimize operations. I quickly concluded something that absolutely rocked my world.

The Setup

First, a quick setup. I'm going to oversimplify things so we can more easily talk about this. The job market works like this:
Hirer posts a job -> a candidate applies

The Pitch

What if we flipped that story? Instead, what if there's a platform of candidates that employers can find candidates and apply to them? So:
Candidate posts capabilities, etc. -> a hirer applies

I posted the much more raw and simplified idea on LinkedIn and my post exploded (for me). I'm still working out how it might work, but I'm building the MVP/PoC.

The Blocker / Struggle

The current struggle is finding hirers to pay for access to the platform. I can't work on this for free and be unemployed. Towards solving that I'm looking for a small group of strong candidates that can entice the first few to sign up. Plus, they'd get a first crack at a paradigm-shift, a better way to find talent that gets filtered out by ATS and other systems. Another bonus is not having to sift and filter through thousands of AI slop resumes.

The Ask

I have a few asks now that we're at the end of this.

• I'm looking for 10 senior, lead, or staff level software engineers to help pilot this thing. Please DM me if this is you and you're looking for work.
• What are your thoughts around this? This is a platform of likeminded people. There's also plenty I'm leaving out for brevity.
• Is there something like this already out there? I'd love to know!
• Are you or do you know a "hirer" who's interested in helping pilot this?