US Startup Gigster: “Push a button, get software”
Salaried developers in the world, you have to be strong now: The Startup Gigster wants you superfluous. Unlike any case let the ambitions of Roger Dickey and his co-founder Debo Olaosebikan not interpret.
“This year an elite development team in minutes,” the two Americans promise on their website. The concept behind this somewhat cryptic slogan is easily explained: In Gigster is simply put an online marketplace, through the company development of all kinds of freelance programmers can outsource. No, truly revolutionary appears the only times not, but are a pool of former Google and Facebook developers and shrewd, pressed into the corset of a search engine algorithms lead to particularly high-quality project results.
“push a button and getting software “, CEO Dickey summarizes the idea of his company in an interview with the Business Insider. Man is able to meet all needs around the theme of development, whether it constitutes a full-fledged app for smartphones or a design for a new Sprint websites feature. “There is no project is too big or too small,” says Dickey on.
$ 10 million after 18 weeks
” In this form, it would be one of the most prestigious early-stage financing that existed in the recent past. “
The remarkable thing about this concept is initially less the idea per se, but rather the hopes that investors stuck in the Founded in November 2014 and since last July with his platform active startup. As was known now, Dickey and Olaosebikan have collected tens of millions of dollars through a Series A funding.
The list of investors involved in Gigster reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley: So the famous startup forging Y Combinator has gone through a fund at Gigster, also are the “Super Angel” Ron Conway and the restless Uber-Jason Calacanis Investor case. And: In addition to Andreessen Horowitz also US actor Ashton Kutcher mixed with. In this form it is likely to be one of the most prestigious early-stage financing that existed in recent times.
A co-founder has already sold to Zynga
The amount of investment, along with the prominence of funders, raises the legitimate question of what makes Gigster actually so exciting. Most likely it is, inter alia, the two-headed founding team itself:. Roger Dickey and Debo Olaosebikan have tons of experience to answer for
Dickey about, 32 years old, founded in 2007, the software startup Curio Soft and thus rose into the at that time hard-fought market for Facebook games. In a few months, he developed 19 different applications, of which the most popular alone 300 million page views a month has seen. That was enough to sell the company after less than a year at Zynga. The 30-year-old Debo Olaosebika other hand, is a trained physicist, and has previously founded several startups focusing on app development.
Both brought the knowledge together, that the implementation of an App Idea for technology-oriented companies in times of Developers notorious shortage can be a very annoying matter. So freelancers are sometimes unreliable, expensive external agencies and also the time for start-ups, to program itself, whether as a result of numerous other leadership roles often too short, as stated in a report by Chicago Inno. This finally resulted in a little over a year, the idea for Gigster: “In the course of our product development, we asked ourselves: Why is there no online service to create prototypes,” says Dickey
Gigster. wants the war for talent quit
For startups and growing company provides an attractive platform represents Gigster insofar as it is a proven solution for especially in Silicon Valley increasing war for talent. Demand for developers exceeds the available supply for years, many companies have to pay exorbitant salaries or find either no staff.
This is where Gigster comes into play. Instead of having to search multiple developers consuming one or, companies can development work according to the will of the founders simply outsource their online platform. What the startup of comparable Freelancer marketplaces as Toptal different, in the opinion of Dickey is a complex web of algorithms that can find the right developer or alternatively a team depending on the desired app. This automation is a submitted application to up to 162 different criteria – from the budget over the desired system down to individual features such as payment terminals or messenger elements – Syndicate. After only a few minutes to a signature ripe offer present
The concept is quite in demand: Just two weeks after the official launch Dickey and Olaosebika who claims to be recorded a turnover of one million US dollars. A former Google employees have the platform, for example, used to publish a reporting software for advertising. Another customer had launched over Gigster a dating app specifically for the Islam, developed from a Muslim project manager.
According to the website the Startup wraps today 271 projects of some 300 client companies. Nearly 1,500 so-called “Gigster” – mainly former Google and Facebook developers from the environment of elite universities – should be available on the platform even as a full-fledged workers available
Welcome to the Gig Economy
As the developers selected by the Startup exactly, but remains as vague as the answer to the question of the payment. Gigster not work with hourly rates, but with fixed price packages. Depending on the nature and scope of the project 10000-36000 dollars in fees will apply. Further details are not known the startup. How much of it remains as Honorary when a developer? This question differs from Gigster date. In an interview with Business Insider insured cofounder Dickey only: “If you’re a really good developer, there are on our platform plenty to do.”
“The more competition on the platform, the lower the fees.”
Gigster thus joins the group of distinguished past few years Gig Economy a. Fewer and fewer people are employed by a company and offer their labor power to autonomously and via online platforms. This has not only advantages: Experts criticize the often missing insurance coverage and associated with the rising competition low wages. Against this background, especially the further scaling is likely to be a challenge for the Gigster founder. The more competition between developers there on the platform, the greater is naturally also the risk of loss of quality. From declining fees not to mention.
In any case Gigster is emblematic of a trend that foresee the Silicon Valley investors for some time – most notably Star investor Marc Andreessen: “Software is the software development eat,” he predicted 2011. Gigster he now has the perfect Investment Case found.
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