Best place to find dev shops and freelance developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021388

by ghostmatt • 5 years ago

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I need to hire a dev shop to build out my MVP. Any good place online to find different dev shops? Thanks in advance !

jdsleppy• 5 years ago

I have no idea, but as a freelance developer I'm interested in being there, too. The best I know of is the "Seeking Freelancer" post here every month. That'll happen next on August 2nd.

If your job is the right size for a one-person team, you can send me a message.

verdverm• 5 years ago

The dev shops that are actually worth the money have more work than they can handle. They typically get their work by word of mouth and have no need to be on a platform or aggregator.

There are many horror stories, so I would be remiss to not warn you to tread carefully.

One thing to do is find someone who is actually happy with their MVP. Another would be to use a "no-code" or "low-code" solution.

Depending on the business, you could even make your first sales with only a PowerPoint. Knowing the type of business and what you are intending to sell could help us make better recommendations.

Irongirl1• 5 years ago

I like lemon.io's blog, but I haven't used them so take my reco with a pillar of salt. I get his newsletter and he seems like a swell fellow. I'd hire him myself if I had the fundage....

readonthegoapp• 5 years ago

i think this is a probably that will problem that will never go away.

we'll solve global warming first.

i.e. this problem won't be solved, we're all going to die, but back to the subject at hand....

i did read one piece of advice that i haven't taken yet myself but i might....today? a founder-type needed an MVP and said he split off a very small slice of his MVP and asked 3 different contractors/groups/people to build it on some site, maybe Upwork, evaluated them, then gave the follow-on work to the one he liked best.

this seems pretty gd reasonable to me. almost too reasonable, so i'm not sure i can believe it will work or not.

so if you were trying to spend $1k on your MVP, maybe you need to fund three separate $100 projects -- see who does best.

i'm def considering doing this now/today.

i agree with verdverm below in that the really good dev shops/devs have more work than they can handle. and everyone else is trying to scrape by in a race to the bottom in which everyone suffers, but clients (like me and you) suffer least, potentially, even if our stuff often doesn't even work.

that said, i still think there is some type of middle ground. i just haven't figured out what it is yet.

one of the 'Freelancer' posts a commenter mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699703

Best place to find dev shops and freelance developers?

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