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Has anyone had a positive experience with hiring a remote web developer(s) and advice for how to go about it?
Here's my situation:
- I work fulltime (70 hrs M-F) but have been using my weekends and holiday time to work on a web app on the side to help me with a process I regularly do for one of my hobbies.
- My development has hit a stand still because I have encountered a problem that I can specifically describe and I know would probably be trivial for an experienced web dev, but I'm not quite sure how to solve it.
- I tried using Upwork to hire a freelance web developer to implement this specific component I'm having trouble with, but I had an extremely poor experience (the developer charged me for 10 hours of labor and then sent me back code that they had taken from an open source repository on GitHub that also didn't even meet the specs I had described - I literally just Googled the first line of code bc it looked fishy and the repository popped up ).
I want to hire a web developer who I can pay to work ~10 hours a week for me and I essentially act as the product manager - I am comfortable reading and writing code, I just don't have enough time to make this app the way I want to, though I know someone out there can.
Has anyone been in this situation before? Any advice?