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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

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Post by levlandau »

quadrature wrote: post #57
ForHackernews wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

This is correct. We price out the gigs ahead of time and match them with developers who like the price.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by albertyw »

kineticac wrote: post #70
albertyw wrote: post #6

"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.

Just a bad guideline worded badly. I'd say this is far from the core value of what the service provides. I'd rather just hear: "Quality products are guaranteed because of our extensive experience and knowledge of making these projects work with many dynamic circumstances." Ambiguous, sure, but that should be a good thing. Let's hear that they're constantly evolving and working around new challenges, and applying expe…

I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by mlitchard »

ckluis wrote: post #61
levlandau wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We actually do not make you fill out any forms is the great thing and we do have an engine that figures out a pretty detailed cost within minutes of chatting with you. Sorry if this isn't clear! What might you be looking to build?

No offense, I have to start with a form and provide you my email address to go through that process. It may be super simple - but I was talking more of a calculator style solution that didn’t require giving you a way to spam me forever.

Twist ending - Selling mailing lists is the actual business.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by markbnj »

levlandau wrote: post #17
albertyw wrote: post #6

"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.

Hi! We don't assign more people blindly. But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel? We are engineers ourselves and are certainly careful to not just load up a bunch of devs on a project. We've done that before and it was painful :) Thanks for the feedback!

>> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel?

I think that's sort of the point. You do whatever any other engineering team does when faced with the same challenges. The question is what is Gigster doing differently that allows you to achieve consistent on-time, on-budget results? Because if you have that formula, you could probably make a lot more money just consulting with existing dev shops on how to implement it.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by lhc- »

levlandau wrote: post #10
cjbarber wrote: post #4

Wow, 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.

So, you said elsewhere "Generally you can expect a Gigster project to be way cheaper (we've seen 10X in some cases) ", and yet your devs are making 10-20k? That does not add up.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by ismail »

From the gigster faq "Profits come later when we are at scale"

From the faq.

1. This is dangerous if there is no clear plan on what competitive advantage scale gets you.

- Is it network effects? - Is there some other benefit that i am missing? Would it drive down the marginal costs of the project once you have an existing library or ways to optimize the process?

2. I have a theory, running at a loss, free or with no bus model only makes sense in a few cases:

- strong network effects (fb, twitter etc) - High LTV for customer, together with low churn. - Proxy for demand/supply. For e.g Solving a customers problem on one side. This may be low cost or even free, eventually you bring in the other side of the market - The scale gives you access to data that no-one else can get. This allows you to be much more efficient / cross subsidise etc.

Re: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

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Post by s73v3r »

ryandrake wrote: post #87

This would be great for porting already-done and well-defined stuff to oddball platforms that you don't have in-house experience with and are not comfortable vetting talent in that particular platform. "We're primarily an iOS company, here's our existing app, here's what it looks like, how every interface behaves, the backend services it hits, etc. Now just do exactly this, but on Windows Phone." I don't know if I'd…

No, but I bet plenty of "ideas" people would be ecstatic about it. Maybe less thrilled that they can't pay in percentage of profit, but happy nonetheless.
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