Thanks, @kevin for hunting this. Hi Everyone,👋 Grupa is ready to delight the community with the launch of our alpha version after spending about 4.5 months in the prelaunch phase, and we want to make sure that the community gets the first look here - especially after the warm reception and helpful feedback received in our previous engagement. Let's start with why and the problems we're here to tackle, together -- Startups are in a constant battle with enterprises to attract and retain elite technical talents. 1. It’s almost impossible for startups to access and compete with the enterprise for talents without raising a ton of money: 70% of VC backed startups are always in the hiring mode. 2. Startups spend a lot of time and money trying to hire: It takes about 3-6 months to attract, hire and build out a product team, thus impacting their momentum. 3. Startups settle for less experienced engineers and compromise on lower product quality due to limited capital and capability to compete. 4. Outsourcing models are broken: They operate a model that is rigid and project-focused which is unsuitable for startups product-focused, agile and iterative approach. 5. Outsourcing can be a nightmare: from missed deadlines to miscommunication: -It is difficult to strike the right balance between architectural mindset and cooperation with engineers. -Painful fluctuations in costing and price point expectations, leading to friction and barriers innovation. -The total lack of insight into precisely how engagements were undertaken left startup founders sleeping uneasily, instead of focusing on another aspect of their business! We believe there is a better, more equitable, smarter path to help startups build the future. Grupa matches startups with our professional network of product teams, provides an operating system to manage execution and a workflow system to speed up the work process. Our operating system offers the safest, fastest, most intuitive, and a process-driven way for startups to get product development done, by combining a deep bench of the world's top product teams, intelligent execution management, workflow, and delivery system our community actually loves to use! Not sold yet? Well, here are some more reasons - 1. We deal with cross-functional teams: With Grupa, you get a product team (composed of designers, engineering, product manager and QA). In other words, Grupa offers you an engineering department to build your product!. 2. No More Hidden Cost: know not only much you're paying but exactly what you're paying for. 3. Infinite Flexibility: The future is flexible work; build your product your way, with options ranging from onsite to distributed to a remote work mode. 4. True Elite Product Teams: this isn't a fancy frontend to hide early-stage senior engineers - we take the best of the best product teams globally, accelerate them with our proprietary tools and processes, to deliver a world-class engineering experience. 5. Rest Easy: our subscription model allows you to choose a flexible payment plan and ensures that all payments held in escrow and released upon completion of sprints - the smartest way to scale! 6. A Global Reach: We work with Product teams across the world, Grupa is likely already in your neighborhood… and if we're not, we'll come to you 🚀 Special offer for ProductHunt community: We are giving out priority access to our 25% discount program for founders and makers in the PH community. Please use this link to access it: https://grupa.io/product_hunt For Talents and Product Teams looking to join as service partners, into local and global flexible work opportunities, please visit https://www.grupa.io/howgrupaworks to learn more, We are on standby to answer questions you may have.

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Greeting PH family! I am product engineer at Grupa. Just to give you an insight into whats contained in the alpha version For Startups Realtime Matching: Best fit team, in 3 minutes 1. An integrated workflow system: which imbibes an iterative execution system for road mapping, design, engineering and maintenance of your product. 2. Expectation/Delivery Management System: to manage the expectation of clients and product teams. 3. Service Subscriptions: Startups can now subscribe to service plans based on the stage of their businesses and upgrade when needed. We 'productized' the services to make the subscription experience as seamless as subscribing to a SaaS product. For Product Teams 1. On-boarding: Signup and assemble your team with our service on-boarding system. 2. Expertise: The product teams select preferred challenge and undertake to complete the mini-project within 4-days, and submit for review. 3. AI-driven matching: Get matched for jobs that suite your skills, experience and passion. Grupa’s intelligent system matches the startups with the best fit teams for their product. We use the following data points to match: skill-set, service/work preferences, and domain expertise! The best fit teams for the right Jobs, we don't handpick.