CODESY.IO Tulsa, OK %Q HQWPFGTU Luke Crouch, Edward Cho and Josh Mize A pay-what-you-want market for the open source community to encourage coders to Ć‚x important software bugs. UKIPWR EQFGU[ KQ The scourge of professional life for software developers is the lowly software bug – the incorrect syntax or misplaced punctuation that results in an app or webpage that crashes. It takes enormous amounts of time to sift through thousands of lines of code to ďŹ nd and ďŹ x a single bug. So, how do high-level app and Web developers approach the problem? They hire it out. A trio of Tulsa-based software developers have created an online auction marketplace called codesy.io that pairs software coders with developers of apps and websites who have neither the time nor expertise to de-bug their software.
Co-founders Luke Crouch, Edward Cho and Josh Mize bring 20 years of software industry experience to the new company, which recently graduated from the second class of the Tulsa Immersion Program. They were inspired to create the concept for opensource software by research conducted by a University of Michigan graduate student. “We have worked together for years on projects, but never rolled any of our projects up into a serious start-up,â€? Crouch said. “The i2E Immersion program is teaching us the ins and outs of the start-up experience – from the low-level logistics of incorporation and accounting to higher-level concepts like customer validation and business valuation.â€? Here’s how codesy will work. A software developer in need of a coder to ďŹ x a bug will click on the codesy button that instantly connects them to coders oering their services. “Codesy facilitates transactions between buyers and developers of open source software and receives a share of the fee for the transactions,â€? Crouch said. “Technically, it’s a
double-blind auction market similar to Google Adwords/Adsense.â€? Through the 20-week Immersion Program, codesy’s co-founders validated and reďŹ ned their concept, met with and surveyed dozens of potential customers and built a prototype to achieve product-market ďŹ t for a potential key customer segment. After graduating from the Immersion Program, the company is seeking investment that will enable the founders to devote full attention to operating it and scaling it up to meet demands of the open-source community. “codesy.io has the potential to disrupt the entire software industry by re-aligning the price of software,â€? Crouch said. “The concept could scale far beyond our vision.â€?
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