I hired a developer to build an MVP with a very low budget thus the code is a very messy. The app is not very big, it might be a total of 4-5k lines of code (if that counts for anything). Also, communication with this developer was not good at all which is the main reason I want to hire someone different now that I have a bigger budget.<p>So my question is:
How hard is it for a qualified developer to take up an existing project with messy code?
its not -- its called "ramp up" time. its usually about a day or up to 2 weeks depending on the size of the project before you feel comfortable making changes. the longest one i ever had was about a year, where after i worked on a project for a year i was still finding sections of code and saying "oh... i had no idea our app did this or these files were there!"<p>usually the dev will just poke around for that time and make small changes and debug it a few times to see how it works. 4-5k lines i would say 2-3 days tops before they are comfortable with it.