Gigster Blog

This type of progression in software development is inevitable. Groups of people writing individual lines of code for bespoke apps will one day go the same way looms in factories went after the industrial revolution.

I run a software company, and we've actually moved away from fixed price projects and only provide development on a day rate. Fixed price/scope/timescale projects are incredibly risky, require massive amounts of project management resource, and can be insanely unprofitable if the specifications for the work are not watertight and the client isn't managed well.

Knowing the industry very well, and having completed hundreds of bespoke projects for all sizes and types of clients I have so many questions about how the Gigster model works. Off the top of my head:

* What language are the apps built in? This is important to me if I want to hire my own people to continue to build out and support the app going forward. I presume the mobile apps are native, so this question is probably more specific to the web development.

* Do I own the intellectual property on the finished app?
* What does the support and maintenance agreement look like and provide? And at what cost?

* What does the contract for development look like? The devil will be in the detail here. For example, I'd be interested to know what happens if my project overruns and deadlines are missed.

* What if I want something built that doesn't fit one of their various examples here…

Here's my master list of remote job sites - you should be able to find something through here (my first remote gig was from HN who is hiring thread):

HN - http://hnhiring.me/

Remote OK - https://remoteok.io/

Stack Overflow - https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=True

LiquidTalent - http://www.liquidtalent.com/

Working Not Working - http://workingnotworking.com

Hired - https://hired.com/contract-jobs

Gigster - https://gigster.com/

Mirror - http://mirrorplacement.com/

Metova - http://metova.com/

Mokriya - http://mokriya.com/

HappyFunCorp - http://happyfuncorp.com

Savvy Apps - http://savvyapps.com/

Clevertech - http://www.clevertech.biz/

Workstate - http://www.workstate.com/

AngelList - https://angel.co/jobs

Authentic Jobs: http://www.authenticjobs.com/

Github Jobs: https://jobs.github.com/

- https://www.workingnomads.co/jobs

- https://remoteworkhub.com/remote-jobs/

- https://www.crossover.com/

- https://remote.com/

- https://weworkremotely.com/

- https://getbetterluck.com/

- https://remote.co/remote-jobs/

- https://remotive.io/find-a-job/

- https://www.skipthedrive.com/

- https://www.outsourcely.com/remote-business-services-jobs

- https://www.wfh.io/

- http://jobscribe.com/

- https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com/

- https://landing.jobs/

- https://remotebase.io/

Crew: https://crew.co/

NoDesk - https://nodesk.co

FreelanceDevLeads: https://freelancedevleads.com/

FlexJobs: https://www.flexjobs.com/

Job boards

* http://weworkremotely.com

* http://remoteok.io

* http://remotebase.io

* http://workingnomads.co

* http://authenticjobs.com

* http://folyo.me

* http://jobspresso.co

* http://wfh.io

* http://remotefriendly.work

* http://linkedin.com/jobs

* http://angel.co/jobs

* http://designernews.co/jobs

* http://news.ycombinator.com (monthly posts for freelance jobs)

* http://dribbble.com/jobs (only design)

* http://getonbrd.com (latam)

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With broker

Here you apply as a professional, they approve you (or not) and then assign you projects.

* http://toptal.com

* http://workmarket.com

* http://crew.co

* http://hired.com

* http://onsite.io

* http://workingnotworking.com

* http://gun.io

* http://gigster.com

I do not recommend

* http://upwork.com

* http://freelancer.com

* http://nubelo.com

* http://fiverr.com

* http://workana.com

* http://guru.com

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Slack communities

Interact with other freelancers. Usually you will find a #Jobs channel.

Free membership

* http://wearedomino.com

* http://designerhangout.co

* http://launch.chat

Paid membership

* http://join.nomadlist.com ($25 month | $75 year | $200 lifetime)

* http://workfrom.co/chat ($5 month | $50 year)

* http://freelance.chat ($25 lifetime)

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This list is from an article [1] that I wrote, hope can help!

[1] https://medium.com/@pablomassa/sites-to-get-remote-work-as-a-freelancer-16092a954e21#.mzqr3nbqo

Sorry you had a less than desirable experience. However, rather than writing this HN post, did you quickly make the changes on your site so it displays the most relevant information you wished would have been displayed on PH? Did you test those changes? Did you harness that PH data that allows you to continue refining what the exact problem it is you are solving for your users? There are two key learnings here:

1. Use this experience as a learning opportunity. If you are pissed because you didn't reach number 1, I think you are thinking about all the wrongs things PH is meant to represent. If anything, PH purposefully kicks your startup into hyperdrive once you are hunted - regardless to you being ready or not. This is a good thing. It means you no longer can afford to drag your feet.

2. Iterate, test, iterate, test. You shouldn't be focused on pushing out the perfect product right out of the gate. I suggest you read a bit about startups here: https://gigster.com/resources/pg-essays?ref=producthunt

HN - http://hnhiring.me/

Remote OK - https://remoteok.io/

Stack Overflow - https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=True

LiquidTalent - http://www.liquidtalent.com/

Working Not Working - http://workingnotworking.com

Hired - https://hired.com/contract-jobs

Gigster - https://gigster.com/

Mirror - http://mirrorplacement.com/

Metova - http://metova.com/

Mokriya - http://mokriya.com/

HappyFunCorp - http://happyfuncorp.com

Savvy Apps - http://savvyapps.com/

Clevertech - http://www.clevertech.biz/

Workstate - http://www.workstate.com/

AngelList - https://angel.co/jobs

I know you're just asking for sites and not approaches to finding contract work, but getting in with a very promising early stage company through contract-to-hire [that allows remote] is probably the most sustainable way to go.

Doing one contract project after another at an hourly rate just doesn't scale well financially and finding a next decent client can be like pulling teeth.

I think I get it. Look at their pricing:

https://gigster.com/pricing

Most software development shops don't ever scale past a few dozen or a few hundred developers. As a result, they don't have much project overlap. If you were able to scale to handle tons of similar projects, and be picky about which projects you take on, you could re-use 90% of the code needed for each project without ever dropping prices, essentially charging over and over again for hours that were only actually worked once.

All marketplace codebases are pretty similar, all dating apps are pretty similar, all daily deals sites are pretty similar, etc.

I think all their talk of Artificial Intelligence is nonsense to throw people off their trail.