Pitch Competition

Hey, Product Hunt fam. This winter we're inviting post-seed startups worldwide to participate in an asynchronous pitch competition. In our day jobs we help startups source, vet, hire, and retain their software development teams. The winner, selected by the Gun.io developer community, will receive three months of complimentary full-time software development resources from Gun.io, a $60,000 value. Rather than cash, businesses will compete for time with a senior, vetted developer. The winner will select their developer of choice from a roster of vetted professionals, matched to them by Gun.io’s Developer Relations team, and Gun.io will cover three months of full-time work. We see dozens of incredible companies come through our doors each month who have a dire need for senior-level talent but don’t believe they have a senior-level budget quite yet. After being bootstrapped for the better part of a decade, we understand this pressure. Our hope is to make a difference for these promising companies by making it easy to work with fractional, senior-level talent with an incredibly high ROI. The pitch competition is open to post-seed companies globally who are open to contracting with worldwide talent. Preference will be given to companies with a mission to solve a significant problem in the housing, education, transportation, energy, and climate sectors who can clearly illustrate their 3-6 month product roadmap. Although software developers are the masterminds behind every groundbreaking technology, they are rarely asked for business-level insight and advice. We believe this is a misstep. Developers are incredibly discerning when it comes to what to build and why. Often, they’ve had a front-row seat for dozens of wild successes and incredible failures, which makes them uniquely good at predicting outcomes. Thus, the pitch competition will be judged by the Gun.io developer community: two thousand senior, vetted technology professionals. Participants are encouraged to build their pitches with this audience in mind, which is a much different audience than a typical pitch that is delivered to potential investors. In addition to three months of free, full-time development resources, the grand prize winner will receive weekly advisory sessions with Gun.io’s internal team, including an initial scoping session to maximize ROI potential. As the prize is awarded in the form of services, this investment is non-dilutive. The winner will also receive complimentary marketing materials highlighting their business, produced by the Gun.io team during the course of the 3-month project. Applications will open on November 7th. Requirements and preparation instructions for participants can be found at https://gun.io/pitch. I'll be hanging around here all day. Please feel free to send me a message with any questions. Or hit me up on discord (johnsorc#9980) if it's easier.

What a great idea! That's a really amazing one. Congrats on the launch @johnsorc ;)