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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Flutter or React Native: which one should you hire for?
For a new app, hire the person, not the framework. Both ship to iOS and Android. What differs is the language, the hiring pool…
My developer disappeared: how to get your project back
Send one clear message, lock down every account you can still reach, list what the project depends on, then recover the domain…
20 questions to ask a freelance developer before you hire
Twenty questions in five groups: their shipped work, your project, how they work, money and ownership, and what happens when it…
How to hire a Flutter developer
What to check that is specific to Flutter: apps live in both stores, the native code behind the plugins, how they handle upgrad…
What independent developers are actually shipping
Counted from 99 shipped projects on Shipfolks. Two thirds are mobile, most builders show exactly one thing, and almost nobody l…
How to hire a React Native developer
What to check that is specific to React Native: shipped store listings on both platforms, native module experience, and who own…
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