Ask HN: Can I hire an agent or how to get short-term contracts?

I'm looking into transitioning from full-time job into short term contracts. Ideally I would like to sign in a project for 1-6 months, do the job and have month or two off. Is there a good place to find such contracts outside of my LinkedIn network? Is something like agent for developer a thing? Kind of like authors, singer and actors have. I would love to hire someone like that, give him a cut of of contract and carry on. If it's not a thing someone should make startup out of it.