| Does anyone here have experience with that? How was it? > MVPs are my specialization, both full time and freelance. However, besides my own startup, most MVPs become a death march and few survive marketing. Which site did you use? Is fiver any good for something like this? > Fiverr is terrible for this. Upwork is okay, if you have experience with project development and management. I would recommend something like Toptal. How do you protect your idea from being stolen? > You'll have to sign some kind of agreement that the created product is yours. Consult a lawyer. Copyright covers code and is nearly free. Patents are more work, more cost, but should protect the idea. Generally, it's not worth protecting if you have an advantage. Outsourcing is something you do when you have a lot of money and want to convert that into code. Like a hundred thousand dollars lying around and no idea where to put it. Your product will cost you more than you expect and be much longer. One hint of a startup being doomed is when they have profile pics or Facebook login where it's unnecessary. There's a substantial cost to front end, back end, hosting, maintenance. You want to brutally cut out all unnecessary features. Assume that every button will cost you $50-$200. Rounding the images will cost you $50-$200. When you do something, there's the design, development, testing, iteration, project management cost. |