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How to hire a freelance developer without Upwork or Fiverr
Shortlist people whose shipped work you can open, send a brief with scope and budget, then start with one small paid slice. The full process, step by step.
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The real difference is not the fee. It is who legally sells your product and owes the sales tax. What each costs at small price…
Do you need an NDA for your app idea?
Usually not for the first conversation. An idea is rarely the valuable part, and an NDA protects less than people think. It ear…
How much of a small site's traffic is bots? We counted ours
In 15 days of our server logs, 29% of page requests came from declared crawlers, and another 3,744 requests were scanners probi…
Cold email for freelance developers: templates that are not spam
Pick a narrow group of businesses, find one real problem at each, and write a short email about it rather than your skills. Thr…
How to hire an iOS developer (Swift and SwiftUI)
What to check that is specific to native iOS: App Store listings you can open, SwiftUI or UIKit choices, App Review experience…
How to get your first 100 users
By hand. People you know who have the problem, the communities where it gets discussed, and replies to strangers asking for wha…
Fixed price or hourly: how to pay a freelance developer
Fixed price when the scope can be written down and tested, hourly when it cannot. For most first projects, fixed-price mileston…
Developer portfolio website: what to put on it and what to cut
One sentence on what you build, three to six projects with live links, a contact route that works in one click, and your availa…
How long does it take to build an app?
Roughly 6 to 13 developer-weeks for a web app with accounts, payments and an admin area, and more for iOS and Android. Calendar…
Three months of Shipfolks in numbers
115 accounts, 59 public builder profiles, 122 shipped projects, 16 messages and no revenue. What the first three months of a sm…
Where to launch your product: directories compared
Product Hunt and Show HN are free and worth one good attempt each. Most other launch directories now sell a place in the queue…
Who owns the code? IP and accounts when you hire a freelancer
Paying for code does not make it yours. In the US and UK a freelancer generally owns what they write until a signed agreement a…
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