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

Post by cdcarter » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 5:13 AM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #112

It's pretty worrisome that they say "The Gigsters come from companies like Google or Stripe that are looking for some extra projects." Google is pretty strict about side projects done by its employees; its IP release claims ownership over anything "along the lines of business of Google", which the company has in the past interpreted as "anything tech-related". There's a release process, but I really doubt they would…

Post by nostrademons » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 5:27 AM UTC

nadams wrote: post #121

nostrademons wrote: post #112

It's pretty worrisome that they say "The Gigsters come from companies like Google or Stripe that are looking for some extra projects." Google is pretty strict about side projects done by its employees; its IP release claims ownership over anything "along the lines of business of Google", which the company has in the past interpreted as "anything tech-related". There's a release process, but I really doubt they would…

> Google is pretty strict about side projects done by its employees; its IP release claims ownership over anything IANAL nor do I play one on TV but I don't know if I actually believe that is legal - and if it is then it's a huge legal nightmare. Take this project for example[1]. He worked on it before he was an employee of Google and after - does that mean Google automatically gets copyright over the project? What a…

Post by levlandau » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 5:38 AM UTC

Shenglong wrote: post #162

Can anyone related to this explain to me why Yahoo Weather is listed under their "success stories"? As the PM on the project, I can say without a doubt this was not done externally. It was built through the sweat and tears of the wonderful engineers and designers on the team. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fie0qrk7ecpphib/weather.jpg?dl=0 This just seems like blatant lying to me.

Post by harryjo » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 6:16 AM UTC

throwaway2215 wrote: post #148

markbnj wrote: post #140

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Translation: we're burning other people's money so we can underbid anyone and build a customer book. Of course, at some point someone is going to want the business to be profitable and then, hey presto, you're a dev shop like all the other dev shops.

I'm disappointed in YC for funding this; I think it's destructive to the hacker economy/ecosystem. Excerpting a comment from a thread last year re: Marc Andressen's complaints about startup burn rates that applies: --------- I find it very hard not to get angry at these posts... ...One of the biggest problems facing my company right now is dealing with all of the venture-funded idiots coming after my customers, marke…

Post by harryjo » Thu, Jul 23, 2015, 6:23 AM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #147

narrator wrote: post #68

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If you have the best developers, they will likely want to go get a better job at Google or Facebook than work in IT services.

They tout that their developers actually work for these companies on the side, which for me is (yet another) huge red flag for the whole thing in that if you're already making Google-money (which, even in SV, is "more than enough" if you're a talented developer) the $10,000-per-project side gigs you're working on are really easy to drop if even a bit of boredom creeps in, which it will since these are bound to be rel…