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from the and-when-they-increase-the-lease-rates... dept.
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 VLM on Monday December 14 2015, @01:07PM
it becomes harder and harder to appear qualified in their eyes.
I'm not qualified anymore for my own job, LOL. Due to the speed of technology drift, as new languages and tools and problems roll in, I'd never be hired today into my current job because some stuff we use didn't exist at all, or didn't exist at this workplace, when I was hired, so it didn't matter that I had to learn on the job, and giant bureaucracy being what it is, some of my position keywords they search for are stuff we got rid of long enough ago that I don't remember it well enough to honestly claim I'm a rockstar dev in that topic or whatever. Its been awhile since I wrote a new front end web interface using raw Perl CGI library. Its been a long time since anyone at my employer has used subversion. I'm told that "kids these days" graduate never having heard of rcs, cvs, svn, hg, nothing but git and git is all that ever was, sort of a creationist view of software development.