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Show HN: Instantly hire 3 vetted engineers to deal with your technical debt

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14 pointsRiphyak9 comments

Sounds like a good idea but the process of onboarding for anything but the most trivial of projects will take a serious amount of time... and it's directly proportional to how much "technical debt" there is to solve. I may only have 15h of "work" but if it takes me another 30h to get these developers familiar with my product and codebase, it's a non-starter.

Thanks for your reply. Good point!

You are right: the more the amount of the tech debt amassed, the longer the learning curve. Still better if the devs can start from tomorrow, right ;). Also, once the team becomes familiar with the legacy code once, all further support is much easier.

This post seems more like an ad for a business than a "Show HN". The guidelines for "Show HN" say:

"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."[1]

There's nothing on this site that you can try out without paying for it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Thank you for pointing this out, @greenyoda. The reason we're asking for the deposit is to cut the usual customer validation routine and make it possible for you to jump on a call with the Team lead tomorrow.

This is more a marketplace product than saas - hence the way it works.

Is this a marketplace or an agency?

The fixed price point of $99 seems like it would have to rely on some geographical arbitrage to make any sense. Why not establish a quality baseline and let the marketplace take care of the price points / team sizes?

I think the focus on tech debt is an interesting take though.

This is a marketplace @Zack-sgu. On the supply side, you have multiple software development contractors. We vet them and leverage their availability data. Good point about the price vs quality baseline! Have to give it a thought.

Just so you know, looks like you have a typo under the Guarantee section on the home page "the work isn't done until you stay it is".

I presume you meant "the work isn't done until you say it is."

Thank you @dbm44! :P Fixed

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