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What do you think of Tech-as-a-Service (TaaS)?

...or on-demand Tech? Would you hire freelancers for Tech gigs? No, not the ones on Fiverr, I mean pro Data Science, Hardware design, Academic and Scientific coding.
Can you suggest any forum on community for early adopters?
Appreciate any feedback on the topic, thanks

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Ideas and Validation
on September 20, 2020
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    On-demand hiring practices exists on a fairly broad spectrum.

    1. Price
      At one end are customers who are price-sensitive, at the other end are customers who are largely price-insensitive, so it is important to clearly identify where you want to play.

    From your comments, it seems you are targeting a price-sensitive segment (startups & SMBs). IOW, price will feature more in how your potential customers assess your services relative to your competitors.

    If you choose to move upmarket, how you are assessed by potential customers will be based much more subjective criteria rather than mainly on price. Think resource diversity, dependability etc.

    1. Time zone
      Even the decision around the resources to hire can be a bit nuanced. The resources themselves can be onshore (timezone matters to potential customers) or offshore (TZ doesn’t matter as much to potential customers).

    For onshore, there’s the option of bringing the resources onsite or having them work offsite (remote) but this will largely be determined by what the customer hopes to accomplish with on-demand hiring.

    Data science, scientific coding et al can be completed remotely, but it’s not really clear if the kind of hardware expertise you plan to market can be completed remotely, i.e. without the resource having to schedule onsite visits or have the hardware shipped to them.

    Just some thoughts.

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      A lot of good points and definitively food for thoughts, thanks!

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      Kind of, but with a different target, in 2 ways: i) Toptal is mainly for software/web developers, Techlend is for "hardware" (engineering, architecture, lab and scientific coding, etc.); ii) Toptal is "big projects" - works with enterprises or well established businesses -, Techlend really is for gigs, so startups and SMEs

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        I believe lots of startups use Toptal, i might be wrong though. They even have startup sections on their site.

        They do design and Finance.

        Is there a reason they haven't done "hardware"?

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