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To our friends on Product Hunt -
Just over one year ago, we launched Gigster to the world. Today we are launching Gigster v3, the most ambitious update ever. We’re introducing an entirely new interface and far more informative content covering our manifesto, our global Talent network, 20 case studies detailing our clients, and an overview of Gigster Intelligence, the science behind Gigster’s innovative approach to building software.
Gigster is a smart software development service, combining top developers and designers with artificial intelligence. Submit a web or mobile project and get a quote in minutes. We hire a US-based team managed by a PM who gives you weekly updates. Gigster is backed by Andreessen & Y Combinator and has completed projects for IBM, Mastercard, Airbus, World Bank, and many more enterprises and startups.
What makes us unique? Exceptional developers & designers work in concert with an AI-powered platform to deliver projects faster, cheaper, and more consistently. Expect an incredible experience.
With this redesign we set out to make the site more informative while making the brand more approachable and friendly. We wanted to be more transparent with our data, clearer about our difference, and more visually refined.
We also refactored the site’s underlying architecture, moving to a component-based system for the new interface. In addition, we created a brand-new style guide to make future updates easy as the Gigster brand evolves. We are excited about the future of Gigster and look forward to delivering an incredible project experience for you.
Start a project by next week and get some awesome Gigster swag and a bottle of wine!
Please share any feedback or questions. Thanks again!
@rogerdickey Sounds interesting! How do you guys use the AI exactly? It's referenced very vaguely currently.
@rogerdickey Looks great. Are the features marked "Coming soon" going to be accessible to anyone once they have been released? I assume this would be for demo purposes only...
Congrats, Roger. Taking on all comers, from the girl/guy with an app idea to the Fortune 500? Amazing, Gigster 3.0 appears to be another big step forward in the software eating the world theme.
Here are my two cents from a client perspective.
I reached out to Gigster 2.0 almost a year ago to get a quote and to see if they can help me build my website for car enthusiasts. They didn't get back to me in 10 min, but that's not a big deal, and who cares if it's 10 min or 1 day!? The guys were very professional, and they made me a very decent and competitive offer. They were super easy to work with; they stayed on budget and delivered on time. Gigster is great for any size projects but especially for MVPs and to get you started. All the best. Nik
@nemtrd hi Nik. Can I know
How much you spent on Gigster? I'm pretty much in same requirement as yours but only now through this post have discovered this service.
@adnandawood hey man what you see on KarPage.com right now is far from V1 that gigster did. I also had some other features developed from gigster that are not on the website any longer! It's best if you reach out to them with your requirements and I'm sure they will get back you pretty fast.
Quote in minutes is a bit too much marketing in my opinion. at least for a smaller 5k project I asked about. Got the feeling of a regular chat with next day reply.
@j00st You're right, for complex projects it's more like hours or a few days (mainly limited by the time it takes to capture context from the client), but for simple projects we can generate quotes as quickly as 10-15 minutes.
Pretty, a little frustrating not to be able to shop at all, or view projects. Also, why has every company switched to forcing you onto a phone call all of the sudden? That's a HUGE friction point - requiring full, synced attention, allowing no multitasking, flexibility etc. Still testing the new flow out though - optimistic!
@elizabethhunker when you say "not able to shop", what do you mean? and for past projects, did you find the projects on the Clients page, or was that too buried?
@rogerdickey Too buried apparently - honestly stoked on the premise - just had some confusing friction on the UX & copy
Can you tell us more how accurate a quote can be if it is generated in mins? Even very experienced team needs to read through the requirements multiple times to come up with initial quote and after that it requires back-n-forth with customer to come up with final one? How's your process is different? Where AI is used to deliver projects better?
@patelpriyank Definitely valid points! The key difference with Gigster is that many times clients rely on us to come up with requirements based on their goals or the product they have in mind. Having a really quick way to describe a broad set of applications and requirements then becomes really helpful. We don't skimp on understanding what people want and if that takes us a while to do we do that. However, because we have systems that enable us describe many kinds of apps very quickly and accurately we are able to reach an understanding of what the customer wants & generate quotes very quickly when people want things that fall within our known vocabulary. One difference with our process is that we undertake all of the risk. We have product managers, developers and designers all under the Gigster brand. PMs help clients navigate the process of working with developers and shield the developers from non-programming tasks. Re: AI -- the idea is to collect alot of data & code from current and past projects and use it to help us understand what people want really well, and to streamline project management and development on future projects. Ultimately you get higher quality, less varied outcomes and lower costs over time.
For me I don't mind if a quote takes 30 min or 5 days. It's when the project is kicked off that really matters.If you are telling me you offer "some" garanty I'm listening carefuly 😄
@_pascalandy Yep! We have a quality and a cost guarantee. Price is fixed and we take on the risk of managing budget. More here - https://gigster.com/#guarantee
@wilhempujar Hey Wilhem, we're actually doing some real work with AI. You can learn more here - https://gigster.com/about/intell.... Let me know if I can answer anything.
@rogerdickey the link does not answer this. I suppose it describes in what direction would you be working on, but from what I have understood from the research in this domain and AI IMHO it's a long shot and sounds like a marketing buzzword by saying "we are using AI". Do you have anything concrete yet? Do you have enough data to build something meaningful and usable using AI techniques?
Think, if everyone starts saying that we're using AI, what kind of expectations we're setting for the customers, developers, markets. Isn't it misleading?
I do not mean to discourage you in any way, just curious. If I am wrong, would love to know your approach as it would totally be something revolutionary in AI field.
Do not ever find Gigster to do your web development!! They are so incompetence and unable to finish a simple project. Then when they made some mistakes, they intent to charge you with more $$ to fix the bugs they did which is ridiculous!! then i discovered Cloud devs which was a Godsend to me.
@rogerdickey I applied in Gigster2.0 several times as a developer, I got reply only once. And that too was rejected with the reason you don't have enough work on Github. Common! I have tons of private repositories.
@rogerdickey And yeah the interviewer didn't show up in the first screening. I really had bad experience with Gigster2.0.
How can Gigster guarantee a bug-free, finished product when your developers/managers can leave whenever they please?
I'm a freelance developer working with a client who's been building two projects with Gigster for at least 8+ months. Their/our experience has been truly awful. We haven't heard real answers to our questions in over a month, but we do get lovely "So sorry, this is unprofessional. We'll figure out what's going on with your project and get back to you in the next 48 hours!" emails on a weekly basis from different managers with no follow-up.
It doesn't seem like Gigster has solved any of the dev service problems that almost all shops have. So beware.
@garrettboatman Wow, very sorry to hear that. Can you share which projects these are (roger@gigster.com)? If it's really 8 months that would mean they started back in December, which is one of our toughest cohorts. We announced our series A that month and got far more business than we were expecting :(
@rogerdickey @garrettboatman @gigster Roger how many disaster projects like this do you have if you can't identify the projects from Garrett's description?
@nucleics_inc @rogerdickey @garrettboatman @gigster ours is almost 5 months delayed. Thankfully we planned and are generating revenue. But we're missing out on lots of upside. Really frustrating when we gave them all the sketch files when we came to them and we've heard countless excuses and promises to finish. Latest promise is web app this week. Spoke with @garrett who said after he posted here, his project was back on track. So, this is our last resort. We'll see if they deliver this week. Will update this post based on outcome. 🤕
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