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I love sports, tech, beer, digital products, and startups. Co-founder at https://lightit.io

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I agree and think the timing is everything - When you are the first one responding to a job request, your chances of winning increase considerably. We are doing this with an internal tool at Light-it (the agency I run) which has been paying off really well. It notifies us via Slack of the best opportunities for our business.

In case anyone is interested in reading how: https://lightit.io/blog/how-we-are-using-technology-to-hunt-...

PS: I think this should not be in the Ask section.

"A senior developer can develop a whole application from scratch by himself. Senior devs know about design patterns, architecture, automating testing, performance, security, debugging, bug fixing, testing, validation, etc. This doesn't mean they don't have questions or make mistakes, it means they know how to identify problems and where to find the right answers. That's why they are the ones who get assigned highly complicated tasks that require an exhaustive level of knowledge."

Source: https://lightit.io/blog/identify_seniority_level/

I think you basically have two options if you think there is still a lot to be don before launching a good MVP:

Option A) Using a no-code tool as buuble.io, Webflow, or similar. The choice depends on your requirements.

Option B) Hire an agency or freelancer. Probably nearshore or offshore to maximize your investment.

Both are great ways of validating an idea before actually investing tons of money and time.