I've worked on gigster. Throwaway account to avoid this being linked to my account. A few thoughts: 1) The talk of an AI to price things marketing fluff. Ther

I've worked on gigster. Throwaway account to avoid this being linked to my account. A few thoughts: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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/randomness to the hourly pay.