◯˚GitStart - Code as a service

👋 Hi Product Hunt, I’m Hamza from ◯˚GitStart. We’re building a service for engineering teams to assign tickets and get back PRs. We recruit devs who want to grow from remote countries, to work full-time on these tickets and review each other’s PRs. For tech teams it’s pay as you go, and they only pay if they merge the PRs (we pay our devs a base regardless). 🌐 A number of commercial open source repos already use us, so you can check out some of the PRs created by GitStart here: - Cal.com: https://github.com/calcom/cal.co... - SourceGraph: https://github.com/sourcegraph/s... - StoryBooks: https://github.com/storybookjs/s... - Strapi: https://github.com/strapi/strapi... - Supabase: https://github.com/supabase/supa... - Twenty: https://github.com/twentyhq/twen... 🧑‍💻 GitStart is very personal to me because I struggled myself to start my career as a junior dev. Being born in Pakistan made it super hard to find my first remote job. Things changed with Google Summer of Code, which was the first time I got paid to contribute to a large production codebase. 🏃 When I became a staff engineer, I started mentoring junior devs on their solo projects. I then realized what they really needed was production code experience, so I started sending them tickets from my backlog to grow them through code reviews. I also paid them for it. They learned a lot and I got a lot done, which started GitStart. ❗️Disclaimer: GitStart only works for limited scenarios: - Repos with active development by 2+ contributors and through PRs (no trunk based development) - Already have scripts to generate seed data or a staging environment to test your codebase - Automated Onboarding only works for JS/TS codebases that can build and run within a docker container. For other tech stacks, contact us at onboard@gitstart.com and we’ll send instructions 🎁 Special offers for our Product Hunt community September usage is free for ProductHunt members for up to $1,000. Ping ph@gitstart.com after completing the setup to activate the deal.

At Hospitable.com we started using GitStart over the last few months, they worked with us to find a team that supported our tech stack and it's been great so far. The team have been quick to understand the product, and the issues we have asked them to tackle. They have also been open to feedback, and whilst technically our code base isn't always optimised to onboard a team like GitStart they've embraced it and taken care of the assigned tasks with very few issues. The product itself has been great, smooth integration with Linear and GitLab, and everything that happens in the background just seems to work. The experience has only been positive and @ziahamza, @sudocorentin and the rest of the GitStart team and on to something great.

This is great! I love the idea of having super flexible engineering support. Do you have a pricing calculator to estimate costs for common tasks before actually sharing issues and code?

We've used Gitstart to augment our developer bandwidth at codewp.ai for a few months (working on platform rebuild / launch). It's a great offering. The founder, Hamza, and our support team are very responsive and attentive. The outputs for our PRs are great quality. I also like the fact that we're helping real world developers level up their skills without the pain of training them ourselves :). We're a bit different than some of the companies mentioned here, very small, agile, and quick moving. Was worried that GitStart wouldn't make sense, but in fact, they allowed us to focus the more complex (and fun) aspects of our platform while getting rid of time draws - a great asset for a small startup. Costs are pretty accurate, communication is good. No complaints at all, they're definitely worth a try.

Very impressed with the responsiveness of the Gitstart team and roll out support for a new language and framework in a matter of days for us Hospitable.com. Really excited to see where the team can push this fantastic idea and execution! 🚀

Love the idea and nice to see the team contributing to open-source projects as well 👍

I have had the privilege of collaborating extensively with the founding members of GitStart in the past, an experience I found truly remarkable. Currently, we are using GitStart for my startup, and it has really helped us scale up our dev capacity without having to deal with the challenges of hiring. With GitStart, my senior developers can focus on high-level architectural designs, while the labor-intensive task of implementation is seamlessly delegated to GitStart. This collaboration has proven to be highly beneficial for the growth and efficiency of the team.

Very interesting - I see a lot of value being able to leverage modular contractors, especially if you're strapped on resources and not able to work on non-core eng work like minor refactors. How does this work for non-open source repos? How do you share full context on the biz requirements, timelines, code nuances/convention, etc? Guessing this needs to be fully explicit in the JIRA/Linear ticket?

I never heard about this before today's product launch. Shame on me.

As the co-founder and CTO of Paway, teaming up with Gitstart was one of our best moves. We first used them for small, leftover tasks, but they were so good that we quickly gave them more complex work in mobile and web development using React Native and Next.js. They didn't just write code; they also made our developers' lives easier by setting up our system so it starts with just one command. We were on a tight deadline to launch our first product, and Gitstart's help was crucial for meeting that deadline. Working with Hamza and his team has been great—they really cared about going the extra mile and helping us succeed. I highly recommend Gitstart to anyone needing extra help with their coding projects 👌