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How This Startup is Making Mobile App Development EasierGigster can find a developer ready to help you in 10 minutes or less.

ByJodi Helmer

This story appears in theApril 2016issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Gigster cofounders Debo Olaosebikan (left) and Roger Dickey.

If you were a business that wanted an app, your options weren't always good: You'd likely lose weeks of your life wading through AppTank and Craigslist listings, emailing developers and taking meeting after meeting. Now there's Gigster, a site that boils all that work down into one sitting. Just fill out a form at Gigster.com outlining your project, budget, time frame and desired features (say, processing orders or handling payments), and the site will send a guaranteed estimate in 10 minutes.

"Founders would take out their credit cards and pay for the project on the spot," says Roger Dickey, who founded Gigster with engineer Debo Olaosebikan. "It was a series of those "one click and go' transactions that allowed us to grow very quickly as word spread about what we could do."

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