Looking to understand how to contact the right skilled people
Hello Folks,
I am beginning to work on an interesting idea that is close to my heart. In the short term, looking to build a MVP (minimum viable product) and I am a bit at loss on how to approach this effectively.
Would love to learn from your journey if you are on a similar one. Specifically around where I can find the right software developers to help me build a MVP platform.
Many thanks in advance for any advice
Hey Manny,
I'm an iOS developer looking to start a new project. Do you want to guide me through the scope of the project to see if I'd be onboard?
Here's more on my background and experience : https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaopdcgarcia/
All the best,
Joao Garcia
Hi @minimoe,
I'm not sure if you're asking for which are the proper skills you should look for or how to contact developers.
The skills would depend on your project, you and your team.
You should look for people who complement your skills and have knowledge and experience on what you want to achieve (although it is not always an option).
To contact developers I suggest you explain as many details for the project as possible: idea, technologies, objectives, vision, and so on.
We, developers, are used to having lots of offers and may end being too picky about which projects to get involved.
You might try different channels like IH or LinkedIn but I wouldn't suggest going on platforms like Fiverr or Upwork.
In any case, if you start talking to people I'm sure that soon you will figure it out.
Thanks for the detailed response. I am still early in my journey whereby I am trying to hash out my idea.
Once I have done that, I will be looking to build an MVP. Keeping that in mind, I am looking to understand what the right skill sets might be to set up a quick app.
To that end, shall I look for full-stack developers? Also, I was keeping Upwork and Fiverr as my two options. Curious to know why you advise against those?
In my opinion, the most important would be someone who has enough experience to take the project from start to finish.
There's nothing worse than to convince a developer to take over some other person's code to finish it.
I advise against these platforms because they are often used for fast solutions, and if you want a reliable MVP which you can keep working on after, both improving or pivoting could be more complicated if it is fastly done.
This can be controversial since lots of people use Upwork successfully and MVP is precise to create the smallest product.
Anyway, I would suggest creating a strong connection with your tech partners since you want to work together instead of just being an additional project on a long list.
a very quick observation - I have been in touch with some developers and the majority of them seem to be using flutter and firebase combination for front end and back end.
Any advice regarding the use of these programs in regards to usability / continuity etc?
Thanks and much appreciate any input
Well, I'm not very experienced with both since I'm a more Web-oriented developer and these technologies are for mobile apps mostly, but I can give you my opinion.
Flutter -
Flutter is a quite young framework (2-3 years) from Google to create native apps for iOS, macOS, and Android.
Theoretically, you can also create Web apps with the same source code but I'm not very convinced about that.
The fact that it is quite new can have a "hype" effect and just be used for being cool instead of being a good solution, anyway, I heard good things about it.
Recommendation: Check that the developers you talked with already finished some projects with the technology instead of just wanting to learn it "on the go" with your project.
Firebase -
Firebase is also from Google and is integrated on Google Cloud Platform. That may save you some initial fixed costs but become quite costly in the long run.
Personally wouldn't choose it my projects since I don't have the experience and wouldn't make me very efficient.
It's good for MVPs backends since its low initial costs.
Recommendation: Check as well that the developer knows what he is doing and choose it for a good reason and not just the hype effect of Flutter+Firebase.
Extra -
Remember that in any case, the technology should depend on the needs of the project itself rather than developers' preferences.
Aswell the proper developer would depend on the expertise of the technology and tools needed for the project.
Maybe you could give us some insights into the idea to understand better the needs of your project.
I agree completely with what your saying about just bring an additional product in a long list. Why I have steered my partner away from hitting a company.... But how to you find developers to bring on as part of the group?
Great. Thanks so much for the advice. All really good points, especially around the continuity of code.