thekillingtree

I've been looking for someone to build a site for me and after emailing a dozen people, I've gotten no responses.

As a non programmer or a non billionaire, it seems like it is extremely difficult for average joes to try to get their idea built without resorting to the race to the bottom sites. ie: elance. Why does it have to be this difficult? I can't imagine that developers are so busy that when I'm saying "TAKE MY MONEY", no one wants it (despite saying they are looking for work). I've tried emailing the full idea with a detailed list of what I want vs emailing a quick summarized note and the results are the same. No response.

Am I missing something? Is there some sort of secret code I'm not using?

edit: Wow, thank you guys. I'm getting a crazy amount of information and can already see a few things I had been doing wrong.