Hiring an outside developer or consultant is hard precisely because the people most qualified to evaluate the hire are the people you're trying to hire. The articles in this section are written for non-technical founders, operations leaders, and ops-heavy teams who need to bring on a developer but don't have an engineering manager in their back pocket to vet candidates. We cover what to ask for in a proposal, what fixed-price versus hourly actually means in practice, the warning signs that a consultant is going to disappear after the deposit clears, how to scope a project so it can't silently balloon, and what a healthy ongoing relationship with a software shop looks like once the initial build ships. Honest, opinionated, and on the consultant's side of the table — but written for the person hiring.
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