I have not had the best of luck hiring on Upwork etc., so I was curious where developers look to find jobs.<p>Am I the problem, or has the "race to the bottom" nature of freelancing websites really pushed away the good ones?<p>To give a bit of background: a few years ago I hired a friend of mine to build a prototype for an app in React Native, and it's grown to about 20,000 daily active users.<p>During that process he discovered he hates buildings apps, so I've been unsuccessfully trying to replace him ever since. I'm toying with the idea of hiring someone full time initially to rebuild two native apps (instead of using react native) to replace it - so they don't have to deal with any bad legacy code and completely understand the codebase since they made it - and then transition the job to part time for the foreseeable future (maintaining it, adding new features, etc.)<p>Should I be searching for an agency? Is this the kind of work that people are even interested in?<p>Looking forward to your feedback!
Want to chat about this? If it's interesting, I might look into it ;)<p>I've got no answer to your question, but it amuses me to no end that what <i>should</i> be a simple problem of finding someone fit for a role is still largely unsolved.<p>On the last team I worked with, my manager complained a lot about how hard hiring is. On the other end of the spectrum, you hear a lot of complaints about how hard getting hired is.