This is very true. I had so many projects I was working on by myself and I got burned out fast until I hired a freelancer. This has greatly improved my work. Just be ready to pay them.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Freelancers
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#42This is very true. I had so many projects I was working on by myself and I got burned out fast until I hired a freelancer. This has greatly improved my work. Just be ready to pay them.
I think spending the money adds an urgency to ship. If not it's "just" your time.
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#43Step 4: 2 years down the line the code touched by dozens of freelancers becomes so brittle that you can't launch a feature without breaking two others. Greenfield projects are easy, long-term maintenance is hard. Edit: during my career, I had numerous projects needing cleanups after developers only interested in shipping the next feature and rotating frequently. If the long term maintenance isn't your problem, the in…
Getting to year 2 and then replatforming what is working and killing what doesn't seems better than spending 2 years on deploying with the "perfect" architecture
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