Yeah that’s a good idea. Most of the jobs are one-off but I’m looking for a consistent contractor to work with as we have ongoing dev work, it’s just sporadic.
The best dev I ever worked with was in the UK and we worked together for around a year on a freelance/contract basis but then he got hired to a top firm for a full-time gig.
That’s a great idea honestly. I haven’t really just searched for talented devs who are self-branding with websites and will consider doing so this week.
Thanks!
This is an insightful response and I appreciate it.
It’s interesting that you say you don’t do fixed price contracts because that probably accounts for a lot of the issue.
I only hire for fixed price contracts because it’s the only way to protect against developers failing and still charging me.
That is to say, the quality (of even the “top” freelancers on Upwork) is so poor that most of them fail simple jobs and take many hours to complete simple jobs.
If I hire someone to create one static page from a Figma file, and it takes them 18 hours because they’re incompetent, it doesn’t make sense to monetarily reward them for their slow work.
However, I understand how it could work in a different direction from your perspective. A client could keep requesting more things (even beyond the scope) and never mark the job completed.
I have no problem paying a developer I actually trust and who’s moderately competent per hour. I can’t pay the idiots I keep encountering on Upwork per hour. Therein lies the issue I think lol.
Good ideas, thank you!
This is not for our products
This is a good idea.
I have tried on Reddit but the issue is that much of it gets auto-flagged as promotional (which it really isn’t as the post isn’t to promote our website, the post is to find people with a really cool offer – our current product testers love getting a bunch of free stuff for minimal work).
If you have any subreddits in mind, let me know!
That’s a good idea. Will consider that approach. Thanks!
You need to pay on Upwork though. These jobs do not include cash payment. It’s free products for ~15 mins of work.
Basically the same model as Influenster but we can’t onboard there because we’re not looking for testers of our products, but of third party brands.
It doesn’t make sense for me to hire a full-time dev because we don’t have dev work every day.