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Halyna Divakova

YouTeam 2.0 — Assemble an offshore development team in a few simple steps

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For the first time ever you can assemble your own remote development center in a minute. Choose the team setup, select matching devs out of our exclusive talent pool, and schedule calls. No compromise on quality or budget. NOW THAT’S WHAT WE CALL OUTSOURCING!

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Mary Atamaniuk
Could you tell more about what your vetting process looks like?
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@marina_gnatyuk Sure! 1) dev shops apply in the Partners section; 2) Our Partner Relations team does a due-dil, checking the background, previous clients as well as legal side; 3) Only about 10% of dev shops make it to getting their developers listed; 4) We test developers using HackerRank for Work and post the score in their profiles; 5) We also pre-interview the developers ourselves before they can get on an interview with the customer.
Dmytro Dvurechenskyi
Great idea with HackerRank and Team Builder. You can find developers that you need with different options. My greetings @yurij_riphyak and YouTeam 2.0 !
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@dmytro_dvurechenskyi1 Thanks man! The thing is, if you're looking to build a team - you're in a different market than all the freelance portals serve. The key is you want your team co-located and managed - which is impossible to get at UpWork etc.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
It’s been 2 years since our first launch on Product Hunt. Since then, we’ve been working hard on developing and improving our product - YouTeam, a platform for building remote development teams. Despite a growing number of software development agencies and freelance platforms offering their services, finding a development team which matches one’s requirements still remains an extremely stressful, time-consuming and risky endeavour. That’s why our goal was to build a solution allowing startups to save months of time and many thousand dollars of their runway through bypassing the entire recruitment curve. Dozens of sprints, meetings and discussions, and here we are - delighted to introduce you to YouTeam 2.0, Offshore Dev Team Builder. So how does it work? First, you complete a short wizard describing your project: its type, technologies needed, monthly budget you plan on, and the roles your team requires. Here you also get an option to choose the preferred setup: you can hire a team co-located at one of our certified development offices and managed by an experienced PM OR you can select individual developers and combine them into a team. Having defined your requirements, you get access to the Team Builder, where you can browse through the exclusive talent pool of software developers, review them and highlight the best matches by adding them to your Candidates Room. Here is what makes YouTeam 2.0 different: 1. All developers are thoroughly vetted through HackerRank; 2. The team will be co-located at one of our certified development offices, with a dedicated PM who will make sure all trains come on time; 3. Most importantly: WE HACKED THE RECRUITING PIPELINE - so all our engineers are available to start from Monday; 4. And finally, we offer a 2-week satisfaction guarantee for the entire length of the cooperation. IOW: you're not happy with the devs performance - you get your money back, no questions asked. Let me know what you think by joining the discussion below.
Daniil Kopilevych
Love YouTeam's UX! It's now even easier and faster to pick the right devs for your team.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@daniil_kopilevych Thank you! The main challenge was to find an intuitive UX for building a whole team. We couldn't find any product examples to benchmark - so had to build from fundamentals. Took me over 50 customer interviews to find the clue :).
Pavlo Kuznyetsov
YouTeam reminds me of the concept of building an Alliance between a company and employees by Reid Hoffman. In short, companies don't "own" employees anymore, they are building cooperation based on shared goals and values. While freedom, remote work, and the will to try yourself in many different projects rises, YouTeam has all chances to lead this wave.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@pavlo_kuznetsov Ah, loving this man! I do hope products like YouTeam will indeed help employees to get more control over their careers and allow them to provide additional value for their companies. This may result in a more balanced, level workplace.
Sergey Kudryashov ✈️
Maker
Hey, we went through dozens of interviews 🗣, more than 10 iterations of experiments 🧪 and had a crazy development time 👩‍💻 in order to get where we are right now. Also, we have built a special experiment process for weekly iterations and failed 9 times :) 💬 Leave your comment there if you want to learn more about it. P.S. Sorry, Marketing Team I won't post your sales pitch there :D
Halyna Divakova
Maker
Hey folks! YouTeam 2.0 is a result of the hard work of our amazing team, including @yurij_riphyak, @quser and @anton_mishchenko and a few more talented people. Same as it was 2 years ago when we launched on Product Hunt for the very first, we continue bringing the outsourcing industry to a brand new level. We want you to hire high-quality engineers no matter where they are, and we want you to be able to build teams of experienced and vetted engineers right on the platform, in a matter of minutes! Please check our Team dashboard and let us know what you think.
Eugene Lata
I’ve tried this tool myself and have to admit that it’s really great to have access to a database of developers who meet the criteria you indicated in the questionnaire. You can check all available info like previous projects, years of experience and rates just by browsing through a list of developers. Pros: easy to use, vetted talent. Cons: limited choice of some roles, e.g. UX/UI designers.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@eugenelata Thank you eugene. Indeed the first version is focused on developers, with strong emphasis on Web-related tech stack. However we plan adding more UX/UI designers in the future - as well as DevOps engineers, QA, etc.
Alex Vitchenko
Very cool! Congrats with launch of new version of the product
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@oleksii_vitchenko Thanks, Oleksii! Let us know what you think about the product.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@oleksii_vitchenko Thank you Oleksii! We're super-excited, as this is literally the first platform for hiring a full team, not individual devs.
Sofia Zhylych
Great work!
Anastasia Y
Congrats guys!
Serg Korneev
Good luck fellas!
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@serg_korneev Thanks man!
Vlad Sosnov
Very good!
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@new_user_206a1017b6 Appreciate your feedback!
Georgi Todorov
Great work guys! I wish you good luck!
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@georgitodorovbg Thanks, we definitely need it!
Anton Viborniy
WOOW ) good luck!
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@anton_viborniy Thanks, we need that today! :)
Svitlana Pelymska
Congrats with the launch! What is that makes you different compared to, let’s say, Fiverr or Upwork?
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@svetlana_shevchuk Thanks! This product is for building an offshore team - so you want it co-located and managed. You cannot get this by hiring freelancers at Fiverr or UpWork.
Anton Mishchenko
Maker
Thanks so much for your support guys, you are amazing! <3
Eugeniya Vishniyakova
Great work! Congrats with the launch!
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@evgeniya_vi Thank you, Eugeniya!
Richard W
Hi Yuriji - why not optimize the MVP outsourcing niche with a leasing pricing model. Leasing pricing could vary by features etc. most projects fail not because of technology but because of market fit. The idea is that thr total revenue to you would be more than the traditional revenue of a price per job contract by thinking in terms of Marginal revenue and marginal cost.
Yura Riphyak
Maker
@richard_w Thanks Richard. Interesting idea - thanks for bringing this up! This is exactly what Gigster tried to do. The problem is in this case you end up serving mostly first-time-founder non-technical clientele. The problem with those is that software development process is rather counter-intuitive for an outsider - which results in high churn and frustration for the both sides. We tested this model couple of years ago - and pivoted towards team leasing.
Nick
Seems like a great service!
Halyna Divakova
Maker
@nick_stask Appreciate your feedback! Let us know if you try it, we love to interview people who used YouTeam to make our product better.