As a consultant/freelance engineer, this might be useful. It always takes way too much of my time trying to wrangle the non-product details from clients. My solution so far is to have a partner deal with that so I can focus on the software.
Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
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Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#52The irony is that YC would never invest in a startup that had its technical side outsourced through a service like this. But I can definitely see the market potential. Good luck guys.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
We actually plan to give all Gigster developers equity or options on projects!
So you ask clients to give Gigster equity? Also, would love to hear more about your pricing generally.
Hi! Not all clients, just a select few. We collect data on all the projects we do and infer prices automatically :) Generally you can expect a Gigster project to be way cheaper (we've seen 10X in some cases) than what an agency would charge and often times cheaper or on par with similarly curated services like toptal but with the added convenience you get from having a product manager like an agency would provide.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#54No Scala, PostgreSQL on Gigster. :(
Relax, they literally only just started this endeavour :P.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#55Wow, this looks pretty awesome if they are able to uphold the talent bar. Would be good to get more info of how much you can make as a developer and how much projects are likely to cost, though.
Hi! A good developer can expect to make $10K - $20K per month on Gigster :) The developer also can expect to do no sales or management work on the project. You just write code on interesting projects and get paid :) Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them.
Holy moly, so many warnings signs and red flags reading the comments so far.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#56No bad. Now I just need a company to do the same for growth hacking / full stack marketing. This is only half the puzzle, and the easier half.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi! A good developer can expect to make $10K - $20K per month on Gigster :) The developer also can expect to do no sales or management work on the project. You just write code on interesting projects and get paid :) Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them.
> Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them. So much like Uber, can we assume that "$10-$20k/month" is a mythical number[0] that could only be achieved by working 100+ hours per week and virtually no developers will actually make that much? [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/10/uber...
I believe theres no bidding, so gigster only accepts gigs that can pay the dev reasonably. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#58>Dickey runs me through the process. “Say you want to build an Uber for pizza delivery. You get [a Gigster sales engineer] who’ll ask about the details. ‘How do you want to handle delivery?’ ‘Are you going to use your own fleet or a fleet service?’ Does it have to show exactly how long until the delivery?’ They figure out figure the budget and work schedule, and you pay with Stripe. On the backend we assemble a team…
I saw someone on Twitter mentioned that it was a draft version. Once updated, that's in a quote section and doesn't sound the same. I thought I was going crazy.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#59"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.
It's not linear but the math works out - managed right, and up to a point, projects get faster with more people. The management part is hard but that's where our platform comes in.
This is actually not how the math works out. The book referenced is a classic of computer science literature and goes into quite a bit of detail about why the math doesn't work out this way.
Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App
#60This is amazing marketing for an outsourcing shop. You don't get to meet the developers so who knows what "top 5%" really means and there's clearly not any competition. The price you get is the price you get.