Part-time can be a great fit for developers who use their own stack and stick to a consistent architecture across multiple projects. For instance, I personally begin each of my projects with the same template (https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit 23k). This approach reduces overhead when juggling multiple tasks, allowing me to seamlessly make changes in one place and effortlessly push and merge updates into various upstream repositories for different clients. Excited about this efficiency-boosting method? Check out my new blog post where I delve into the details: https://medium.com/@koistya/enabling-efficient-front-end-dev.... Good luck with your project!
Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
#12I'm looking for some kind of part time work similar to your description!
Please take a peek at my gh profile (username spapas) and if you find it interesting mail me at the same username on gmail.
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#13It’s tough. Finding people who are good, fast, and cheap is difficult in the best of circumstances. When I was broke, I decided to beg developers who liked me & offered to pay them something (say 40/USD per hour in 2010). The catch was I had to wait until they had time, so it took maybe 12 months to get a 1 or 2 months of work done. But it got done & that got my business off the ground.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
#14It’s tough. Finding people who are good, fast, and cheap is difficult in the best of circumstances. When I was broke, I decided to beg developers who liked me & offered to pay them something (say 40/USD per hour in 2010). The catch was I had to wait until they had time, so it took maybe 12 months to get a 1 or 2 months of work done. But it got done & that got my business off the ground.
This is a really good idea, if time is not important. If you want someone experienced, in the US or Western Europe who does freelancing full time to prioritize your project, you should budget $100-$200/hr on the junior end, up to $300+/hr for someone more senior with specialized skills. Less than that and you're going to be dealing with someone who's either learning on the job, or trying to fit you in every now and then around their full time job. Either of those scenarios might be totally fine for your startup, you just have to understand what you're getting yourself into.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
#15Have you considered reaching out to a local uni? An above average uni student could be better and cheaper than the average junior dev
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#16offshoring US to Europe costs about $30/hr, 1/2 time work means many context switches so 1/2 efficiency and it can take a few tries to fight the right person, so if FTE for 6+ months not affordable i am concerned that this is not going to give you the outcome you want (and be painful for both you and the freelancer), recommend trying to find an advisor who has successfully done this before to reduce risk
Not sure where did you get this number. $45/hr was the standard expected rate for software development houses and agencies 7 years ago in Eastern Europe. So now it probably is around $70-80/hr. For $30/hr you could get a talented junior freelancing, if you're lucky. But that comes at the cost of quality and efficiency, which offsets the savings from the seemingly lower rate considerably.
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#17I have FAANG and Unicorn Startup experience and looking for freelance type tasks that you mentioned. You can contact me here: prakhar897 [AT] gmail.com if you think I'm suitable. P.S. Don't go through Agencies, they charge a high rate upfront, may or may not deliver and know every strategy to increase the billing amount. Rather hire a highly rated person from Upwork etc.
The highly-rated part is important. I have a friend who tried to save money and hire a guy off Upwork for mobile app development for the first time. The guy from Upwork ended up changing my friend’s passwords and trying to extort him!
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#18Part-time can be a great fit for developers who use their own stack and stick to a consistent architecture across multiple projects. For instance, I personally begin each of my projects with the same template ( https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit 23k). This approach reduces overhead when juggling multiple tasks, allowing me to seamlessly make changes in one place and effortlessly push and merge updates into…
Great advert!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?
#19Another option others haven't mentioned is Codementor. The quality ratio is much higher there than on Upwork. It's not just for mentoring calls; you can post small freelance projects, and jumping on calls is a first-class feature of the platform.
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#20Best to do it as exempt or retainer. Hard to build or do anything creative while counting hours.
DM me yusuf.nb @ gmail, I might be able to help.