Skipp - Remote tech talent for start ups | Product Hunt

Remote tech talent for start upsHello Hunters, I’m Alex, CEO of Skipp 🤞

Once upon a time, I founded a language learning app called LinguaLeo. It was successful - we had 25 million users! 🚀 - but I was constantly struggling with the single biggest problem for most founders and CTO’s - how to find, vet and manage great tech talent. 😎

It’s hard to compete with bigger brands with big budgets to hire developers. When you look internationally, it can be a minefield trying to find people across so many different countries and cultures. I used to spend day after day posting job ads, looking at profiles, interviewing and testing candidates. It felt more like I was a recruiter than a CEO! 🤦‍♂️

Eventually, I realised that solving this problem for everyone else was important to me. That’s why I created Skipp. Let me tell you about it…

First, you log in and choose the filters for the characteristics of your next great hire from Skipp - experience, skill level, tech stack, languages, cultural fit, time zones, etc - then our platform matches your request with people on our bench. 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏻

Then, you can view their profile - here you can see everything from their product portfolio to videos of them talking about their projects and what they want to work on. We’ve tested their technical skills, and can create bespoke tests for you, so you can see the results of those before choosing who to move forward with.

You could be interviewing in 24 hours! 🚀

But we don’t just leave you there, oh no. Once the amazing Skipper has started working with you, you’ll then have a Customer Success Manager to help everyone stay on the right track, because we all know how difficult it can be to manage people remotely. The CSM manages the Skipper through our platform, where they have a dashboard of everything from JIRA tasks to worked hours, to customer NPS.

And the developer has direct contact with the CSM. This means we can spot challenges before they become blockers, and we can create solutions - from suggestions on changes to tasks to providing you with a Project Manager to help run the sprints.

So, think about it: you’ve raised some money and now it’s time to build your product. You can log in to Skipp, see matching profiles right away, choose your team, and start working with them almost immediately!