What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers

The guy is amazing and has done great work for me before. Why shouldn’t I show him that I appreciate it? So I emailed him one day and said “hey, I want to do this right and I want you to know I appreciate your work. I’m raising the contract to $6,000.” He didn’t ask for that, I just did it.

Sometimes I’ll just ask them a question to see how long it takes to respond. Hiring an unresponsive contractor is a terrible experience so you want to get that out of the way as soon as possible.

You have to start by really understanding your project goals. Do you want to test a new product idea or make something really awesome regardless if people use it?Depending on your goals your developer needs will fall somewhere in this spectrum:The more you move to the right, the more you’ll pay, but the more the developer will “think” for you.