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Ask HN: How do you hire remote workers abroad, like developers or writers?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you hire remote workers abroad, like developers or writers?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strong disagree. Costs open a lot of possibilities, especially when bootstrapping. A bay area full stack developer is easily $1-200/hour. You can find one on internationally for $10-20/hr. If you have funding, maybe that doesn't matter. If you are paying out of pocket, that is the difference between executing or not.

When the root cause is under-capitalization, that’s a better problem to spend energy on. Because it has compounding returns. Cost reduction has diminishing returns. Starting out under-capitalized means the business is default-dead. Odds are no amount of hard work will change that (that’s the nature of diminishing returns). Of course all this is in the abstract. Actual businesses need different amounts of capitalizati…

Funny addendum: I was just talking to a friend who had one of his developers poached by another bay area firm and wants to get them back.

EE with 10years web dev experience, willing to grind 48 hours without sleep on tough problems. He was paying 2k/month

Re: Ask HN: How do you hire remote workers abroad, like developers or writers?

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Check out https://www.letsdeel.com/ To hire someone outside of the US or to hire in general either bring them on as a Contractor or Employee. You should understand the difference between both, because you cannot treat a contractor as an employee. Contractors will be hired for a set time and for a specific contract and you cannot treat them as you would an employee, if you bring them onto zooms and other calls they ca…

Hello, thank you, I think I'm going to try deel, several people have mentioned it.

And what is your experience with deel, did you like it? Any downsides?

Do you go with contractors or employees with deel, and why do you prefer one vs the other?

I'm thinking of trying contractors first.

And can we hire a person for years as a contractor, or will we eventually have to upgrade them to an employee due to legal reasons, how does that work? Thank you for any insight on this.

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