Im taking some advice I got earlier this week on HN and will begin to look to outside companies to help with the development of my website/app . Do any of you have some suggestion on which companies to use???<p>Some quick site specs ....<p>E-Commerce website with pinterest like interface with ability for users to interact with products in real time and for other users to see the results of that interaction in real time.<p>Suggestions on anything; companies to look at , pricing , programming languages is welcome
On the first of every month, there are two submissions to
HN from user "whoishiring" [1] where the first submission
is companies looking to hire [2], and the second is those
looking for freelancers or looking for freelancing work [3].<p>I mention both since some of the firms hiring could be what
you're after, or you could possibly go the freelancing route.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304169" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304169</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173</a>
Derek Sivers has a good post on outsourcing development: <a href="http://sivers.org/how2hire" rel="nofollow">http://sivers.org/how2hire</a><p>Here are the steps Derek suggests:<p>1. Reduce your big idea to “Version 1.0”<p>2. Write a simple overview of what it does<p>3. Write a detailed walk-through of every click<p>4. Break it up into milestones<p>5. Make your first milestone a stand-alone project<p>6. Post it at elance, guru, odesk, vworker<p>7. Hire one from each<p>8. Continue with the one you like best
A general recommendation: make sure your specs are very explicit about what you want and how it should work and think through the edge cases beforehand.