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GitStart is a "Pull Request as a Service" platform. The company is a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps engineering-focused companies be more agile, scale feature deployment faster, and reduce management complexity. The company is based in San Francisco and was started there by CEO Hamza Zia in 2019. Zia originally founded the company, legally named Murcul, in October 2017 in Hong Kong. After spending nearly two years building the tools and infrastructure, Zia rebranded the company as GitStart in 2019.
Using GitStart, customers can assign a new code task to the GitStart Bot, which then creates the pull request. A pull request—also referred to as a merge request—is an event in software development when a contributor or developer creates new code and then begins to merge that new code with the main project repository.
The GitStart Bot sends the requested task to multiple developers, has them review each other's code, and selects the best pull request out of all the developers' work to send back to the customer. Customers only pay for approved and merged pull requests.The created code is the property of the client, and GitStart has security in place to ensure client code and data are safe.
GitStart interfaces with major ticketing systems, such as Jira, Github Issues, and Linear, as well as Git providers GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket. Because the GitStart Bot is automated, it does not require speaking with anyone, speeding up the process.
GitStart provides an avenue for companies to find and hire software developers, and it helps build software developers' skills and career prospects by giving them the opportunity to grow their abilities as part of the GitStart developer community.
When a GitStart client assigns a coding task to the GitStart Bot, it then sends the task to hundreds of developers and has them review each other's work. The developers work on tasks, and the more senior GitStart developers check the code and provide feedback to the junior developers, which helps them improve their skills while also providing quality checks for the clients. If a GitStart client wants to hire a GitStart developer who has proven themselves to them, GitStart makes a commission.
Developers can live anywhere in the world and speak any language. Resumes are not required to join the developer community, just proven code from tasks assigned. Developers receive a learning stipend in their local currency or in crypto, and pay grows as their skill level grows.
GitStart has successfully managed over 7500 pull requests for its customers, including Sourcegraph, Sales Impact Academy, Hello Alice, NURX, the United Nations, Immunefi, ReadyFX, UBX, First Resonance, Courier, Epoints, and Juven.
GitStart works with most technologies used by engineering teams, especially JavaScript-related frameworks such as Node and React. Engineers have also used it to build compilers in C++. Other coding languages and technology support include Django, Python, PHP, APIs, Jira, C#, Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Electron, and React Native.
