HACKER Q&A
📣 bugzzy

Bug Fixing as a Service


I do 10-20h of freelance dev for a startup currently where I fix non-urgent bugs and things. They're short staffed and their devs don't have the bandwidth for it.

It got me thinking - could I offer this as a productized service charged at a fixed monthly price? I'd obviously only offer it for the tech stack that I excel at.

Though I'm not sure how you'd structure pricing for something like this.

I'd love to get feedback on this -- is it something that your startup/dev team might consider? The pitch is that it'll cost at a minimum $2-3x of your FTE dev time and more importantly, distract them from building core product that moves the needle.

Here's my math: $/hr value of dev on your team = $100/h (in the bay area)? Say they spend 6-8h fixing 1-2 bugs every 2w sprint. That's ~$1500/mo of your dev's time.

What if instead you paid $0.5x of that and got a similar SLA?


  👤 new_guy Accepted Answer ✓
It sounds like you're being used for cheap labour. Fixing as a service was Tweakys business model @ $80 per fix before they were acquired so there is a market there, just stop underselling yourself.