I&#x27;ve worked on gigster. Throwaway account to avoid this being linked to my account.<p>A few thoughts:<p>1) The talk of an AI to price things marketing fluff. There is no magic AI that can price, for example, the fact that a client changes his mind, or that legacy code has unexpected bugs.<p>2) The reusable component stuff is not fully deployed yet. I think where it has potential is as app templates. A lot of apps have similar starting points, and it makes sense to encapsulate those starting points in project templates. I am doubtful that this will evolve into a magic solution that makes software engineering easy.<p>3) The big innovation, from my perspective, is that they are harnessing the spare work capacity of software engineers. It is very easy for a full time employed engineer to hop onto the platform and make some extra cash. I think this separates them from traditional outsourcing shops, or oDesk.<p>4) Another innovation is that they capture the reputation gains from their work. Traditionally a freelancer would build relationships with their clients, the freelancers reputation improves as he does good work. With gigster, you as a freelancer do not have an external reputation. Gigster gets the benefit of your good (or bad) work.<p>Largely because of (4) I would be cautious as a freelancer on gigster. The pay is project based, not hourly, which means there is high variance&#x2F;randomness to the hourly pay.