It exists! We are building a community at YunoJuno that provides all the support of a large company, but for people who choose to be freelance. We're not quite as gung-ho as these guys - and we're not offering to manage your career - that's your business - but we do want to support talented freelancers in the creative (design, ux, dev) community. www.yunojuno.com
(Oh, and we're not charging you anything - we charge the employer, fixed rate, no shenanigans.)
Yup - this is true. The "skills matrix" for developers is a real bone of contention - too many and it's confusing, too few and it's limiting. In reality, for now we are focussing on creative agencies, and they are web-focussed - we are not meeting with companies who have low-level perforamnce or control issues. It's about building web and mobile apps. For now ;-)
(Oh, and we're not charging you anything - we charge the employer, fixed rate, no shenanigans.)