[TheLoafOfBread]

> Step 1: Hire a freelance developer

yeah that's the point where most of you get stuck, because lot of Freelance developers are outright liars. Before you will find somebody who at least understand what you want from him, you already wasted 2 months of your time. This can follow into a guy who understand what you want from him, but has no clue what to do and creates horrid mess.

Eventually you end up redoing everything what your cheap Freelancer did.

Another dimension is that if you can't separate Freelancer from you codebase, you can easily leak IP through Freelancing. Which might be even worse than sloppy job.

[b20000]

but people think everyone lies on their cv as well. the bias is there too. so in the end people just assume everyone lies. which is bad, because the bias will result in false positives.

as a contractor, i recently saved a large company’s ass because they could not find or afford to hire the right guy with the right background.

[strimp099]

All very, very true.

Going through a trusted source is best.