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Josh Constine writes at TechCrunch that you send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back a fully-functional app. "No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built." Gigster's artificial intelligence engine converts a client's product proposal into a development plan, and helps Gigster's army of remote developers plug in pre-made code blocks to efficiently build the app. Gigster has already helped build a dating app for muslim millenials, a way for citizens of the developing world to buy electricity, and has over fifty more projects in the pipeline.
Gigster finds top-notch freelance developers, designers, and project managers with pedigrees from MIT, CalTech, Google, and Stripe, and only accepts 5% of applicants. A sales engineer discusses proposals with clients, and using the AI engine, comes back with a price quote and production schedule in about 10 minutes. Then Gigster manages the entire development process through delivery of the fully-functional app. Gigster charges a flat fee, so there is no incentive for developers to work more hours and run up charges. Both developers and customers interact with a project manager, who insulates them from the potential hassles of dealing with each other. Gigsters who satisfy customers can earn karma points and qualify for higher-paying contracts, and the company uses artificial intelligence to learn from and assign every new project.
One caveat: Gigster will still own the code to the app it designs for you and "lease" it to you. The reason is that they want to be able to reuse certain components that they develop for reuse on other projects. "Software development that requires continuous recruiting and months of development time writing code from scratch is slow and costly, and not necessarily a consistent internal need of all startups or large enterprises," says CEO Roger Dickey. "Hiring talented engineers is hard – so don't. Instead, let Gigster be your engineering department."
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Sunday December 13 2015, @07:12PM
It is hard, now that H1Bs really have been demanding more money.
Plus, many ignorant masses see an H1B who isn't white and calls that guy a muslim even if the H1B in question is not. And with the rhetoric going on, they want even more money.
There are already many jobs sent overseas that won't come back; our culture of fear at present will send even more out of the country (speaking USA-centric, of course), and drive more people to consider things like this.
Many will drop out, the good ones won't have been replaced by H1Bs to begin with, people never given the chance to become good ones won't apply due to never having had a chance to gain the skills and not having a good enough job to begin with to consider investing in oneself to try for "senior" positions, "good" help will be hard to find, this service will fail, and more H1Bs will be hired once the xenophoic rhetoric dies down.
And Mark Zuckerburg will complain there is not enough IT talent, or whoever is the talking head for IT during the next cycle.