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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?

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Post by Kalpeshbhalekar »

jmspring wrote: post #28
Kalpeshbhalekar wrote: post #6

I have tried Upwork, Fiver - Both are very big and global. Eventually you'll have to find a great Dev from an off-shore country and retain them over time. I have seen multiple off-shore candidates who are super good that work at reasonable hourly rates.

One thing with Upwork, and I was helping a project awhile back where this was the case, someone with a high tech social profile will post. They will outsource the work to someone at a much lower rate. The last of these projects I was involved in, the individual had a very high dev advocate type profile, the outsourcing was to Pakistan. Rather than outing things, I just chalked it up to learning and being more aware f…

Oh yes, but one can always have systems in place like location + system tracker.

Upwork has a system where you can track clicks per hour & screenshots every 10 mins along with other details.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?

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Post by AlexITC »

You have already got many useful comments, I can tell that what you need ask for is hard to get because these kind of tasks are not lucrative.

I'd suggest you to consider an alternative, hire someone for a retainer covering up to X hours/month, there is a high chance that this person will be able to put more time when necessary and you will pay the difference.

The best way to find someone to handle this would be by devs you already know/trust or referrals.

Upwork/Fiverr could work, still, some luck is necessary to find a reliable dev on those platforms. If you want to take this route, I'd also suggest Codementor, try many people with small tasks until you find someone you are comfortable with.

I support others about posting on the monthly `Who's hiring` thread.

At last, we have this kind of engagement with a few of our customers, I don't know if we can support you but a call could be worth it (you can find a phone widget in my website that rings my phone). We are working on our own product which is funded by working on these kind of tasks.

Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?

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Post by em-bee »

em-bee wrote: post #30
vendiddy wrote: post #23

Plugging a service I helped create: match.dev Typical rates are $40-$60/h and many work part time. We vet everyone by paying them to create a small project for us.

firefox 108 gives me: An error occurred during a connection to match.dev. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

it's working now...

Re: Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?

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Post by vendiddy »

tekno45 wrote: post #35
vendiddy wrote: post #23

Plugging a service I helped create: match.dev Typical rates are $40-$60/h and many work part time. We vet everyone by paying them to create a small project for us.

Any plans for devops jobs?

Open to it, but we don't have much demand since we mostly work with startups!
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