[levlandau]

Hi! A good developer can expect to make $10K - $20K per month on Gigster :) The developer also can expect to do no sales or management work on the project. You just write code on interesting projects and get paid :) Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them.

[ForHackernews]

> Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them.

So much like Uber, can we assume that "$10-$20k/month" is a mythical number[0] that could only be achieved by working 100+ hours per week and virtually no developers will actually make that much?

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/10/uber...

[quadrature]

I believe theres no bidding, so gigster only accepts gigs that can pay the dev reasonably. Correct me if i'm wrong.

[levlandau]

This is correct. We price out the gigs ahead of time and match them with developers who like the price.

[fuzzywalrus]

Sounds like this will have a perpetual race to the bottom as inevitably there'll be developers asking high prices and not being paired with the work, and those asking less with more pairings.

[ncallaway]

How do you handle a situation where you estimate a given price and don't have any developers willing to complete that project at the given price?

[edc117]

Holy moly, so many warnings signs and red flags reading the comments so far.

[lhc-]

So, you said elsewhere "Generally you can expect a Gigster project to be way cheaper (we've seen 10X in some cases) ", and yet your devs are making 10-20k? That does not add up.

[nickalekhine]

I have a hard time believing this estimate. What are you basing that figure off of? That's senior-level software engineer money for freelancers who are mainly students trying to "earn some beer money" and programmers at Google wanting some extra projects.

[nilkn]

$20k/month is $240k/year, which is some serious money. Forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of these numbers.

[szx]

Hold on, are we talking employee or contractor? If it's the latter, I'd consider at least the following two points:

1. $20k/month every month? Unlikely.

2. Self-employment taxes + other business expenses.

edit: formatting

[nilkn]

Does it matter for the context of my post? $240k is a hefty income either way for a freelancer who needn't live in an expensive metropolitan area. And it seems you agree with me either way with the way you ended your first bullet point.

A lot of startups in the sharing economy space have been guilty of grossly exaggerating how much their contractors/employees actually make. Is this just yet another instance of that or are these numbers legitimate? I think that's a perfectly reasonable question to ask.

[szx]

Sorry if I wasn't clear... I do agree with you - if anything I'm more skeptical :)

[Everhusk]

I really hope this is true, and if it is then I guess it's time to quit my job :D

[jitix]

can you give a breakdown on how the business model is sustainable? No real data but x number of projects, y number of staff, with total revenue of N and profit of M.