The Gigstr nonsense

In the process that I am doing to apply different temporal job positions, I needed to offer my personal information to many sites and apps.

One of the apps for work in Sweden as waiter, conferencer, or others is Gigstr.

I skipped that advices many times, until I really need one of those positions. For my surprise, this app have no version for Android 4.x at least.

Let’s see… If Gigstr is for job seekers, and job seekers needs the money… is accepted to ask audience to have a Tinder-capable device?

When a company develops a product with big requirements can come from:

Poor budgeting
High framework using
Highly specialized groups

Then you get:

Discrimination: for those who really want to work, and not to have the last mobile.
Dependency: you have no web-based apps as alternative, or others platform “to see” the position, also for the employer that can’t access to reliable information to know how much job offer market they are losing at: at least 10%.

I know this kind of app are thinking with Android 6+ (and this is my scenario as Android user: Auxiliar phone, for get a job). Is my objective to get in mind that you NEED to develop backwards at least 3 versions. If you can not support that much, opening a little your platform is a good alternative, and if you as for example Gigstr are afraid of losing customers, I think there is a flaw and work on it because the market will eats you.

Sincerely yours,

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