Comments on “Gigster 2.0
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
To our friends on Product Hunt - Nearly a year in the making, we're excited to launch the new & improved Gigster! Gigster is software development on demand. Submit a web or mobile project & get a quote in 5 minutes. We hire a US-based team managed by a PM who gives you weekly updates. Gigster is backed by Y Combinator & Greylock and has done p… See more
Nicolas Nemni@nicolasegosum · Software Product Manager
@rogerdickey Can you work on a project that is already started?
Michael Buckbee@mbuckbee · Founder+Developer
@rogerdickey Very interesting - but I'm amazed that you're able to quickly scope projects (5 minutes!) and then also have a 'guaranteed' price. How do you balance that?
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@nicolasegosum Hi Nicolas - yes. Let us know where to pick up and we'll start from there.
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@mbuckbee We have been training a quoting engine for ~10 months. Sometimes we guess price wrong but it averages out on volume!
Ryan Castillo@rmcastil · Challenge Accpeted LLC, Founder
@rogerdickey what parameters are you using for your quoting engine? I'd imagine for any AI to work it's got to be actual numbers. The main one I can think of at this point is project hours estimated versus time it actually took.
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@rmcastil Yes, estimated vs actual is one of the biggest inputs. A few other tricks but that captures most of it.
Nicolas Nemni@nicolasegosum · Software Product Manager
@rogerdickey Where can i contact u? Edit: I opened a Project :p
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@nicolasegosum That should work or feel free to email me directly: roger AT trygigster.com
Nicolas Nemni@nicolasegosum · Software Product Manager
@rogerdickey I was just quoted a huge amount just to review the code of an app...
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@nicolasegosum How much Nicolas? That generally costs $1k for the following work: set up your dev env, test app, review all code, generate detailed report on bugs, optimizations, and potential architecture improvements
Nucleics@nucleics_inc · Daniel Tillett - Founder
@rogerdickey How do you stop the "quote shopping jackpot" problem where the customer shops around until they get a wrong estimate that is too low for the scope. Also what about scope creep?
Roger Dickey@rogerdickey · Founder of Gigster - We make apps!
@nucleics_inc Our sales engineers all use the same quoting engine so thankfully not an issue for us! We absorb minor scope creep, major scope creep is captured as a separate "mini project" in the same source base.
Christian T. Zeiler@polyzeiler · Founder, THE O
@rogerdickey this is amazing! Great job.
Justin Kwong@justinckwong · Increase Engagement Time = wiya.io
Great
PA@prestonattebery · Founder + Designer at DesignCue
@rogerdickey Love it! I'll definitely use you guys as a reference as I continue to build out DesignCue. It's essentially the same concept applied to design using a team of remote designers!