[vtanase]

While I do agree with what you said as a general statement, I have found quite a few sticking points in applying this to web applications.

Firstly, I for one have seen very little interest in the open source-ing of web application code. I might be wrong, but as far as I know there are only a few bigger websites that put out their code (such as reddit if I'm not mistaking).

Secondly, to fix a problem with the skills we are trying to use(web development mostly) you need to host it, launch it and then maintain and manage the site. While getting what we build up and running would not be too big a problem, neither of us would have the time to invest in maintaining and managing the site. Therefore, we thought that it would be more beneficial to help someone with their backlog.

So, to sum it up, we thought of this more along the lines of: "hey, you know that thing that you have been thinking of building, but have been putting it off for months? pitch it to us and we'll make it for you".