Hiring app developers - Your concern, Our expertise!

You see only what they show!

Let's start with a very familiar phrase - "Jack of all trades, master of none!"

That's pretty much how freelancing works in most of the cases. As a freelance developer, being choosy about particular technologies only means narrowing down the number of projects that could come on the way. So, to ensure a higher number of projects is grabbed, there's a common tendency of having an overview of the basics of a few popular technologies and it’s needless to say that while the focus shifts to lengthening the list of 'skills’ in resume, quite obviously the quality of work in most from that list drops to average or below average. That’s the inside story and what you see among the skills of interested candidates is just what they choose to show. Got the catch?

Skipped test phase

Let’s face it - practically, hardly any of the freelance developers is ever going to work just on your project and that pretty much explains the caption! So there are multiple projects demanding a freelance developer's time and yours is just one of those. Given so, there's always a lookout for spaces from where some time can be taken out and the time accumulated from saving all that time only implies accommodating some new projects. While the time dedicated to each project goes to the coding part (because that's the only way there will be an app - we're coming to the quality soon!), testing phase is skipped a lot of times. Hence, soon after starting to use the app there are high chances of surprises that you were not expecting (and certainly were better off!)

An all-but-good 'bye' before project completion

Not all 'bye's are 'good' - especially the ones that aren't said but meant by the developer before completing the app development. Wondering if that really happens? Yes. It does. A broken functionality or two isn't great but somehow can be mended (or fixed to function in a way) but what about unfinished code and worse, a non-descriptive unfinished code? That simply implies all the payments put down the drain. No developer will wish to complete such code in the first place and even if someone does the fees charged will be equal or more than what an app from scratch would have cost.

Project plagiarism

Hiring app developers from freelancing sites or social media has risks more than the above and project plagiarism is one more of such. Think of competing with another business who has your business USP embed in their app! That's exactly what can happen and you might even be unaware of that as freelance developers mostly don't have a strong confidentiality agreement in place.

Project Understanding Gone Wrong

The experience of a freelancer in a particular technology or the knowledge regarding how a specific industry works will mostly be limited. Due to such restricted exposure, it's a sceptic matter whether the idea in your head is conveyed to the developer well enough to start with the development and quite sadly, you can only know about it when the project has already went south.

...Last But Not The Least : Freelancer Issues!

So basically, like every other thing in this world - what comes easy often isn't as worth as it seems to be at the first glance. From commitment issues to defunct features, from quality issues to untested app release taking irreparable toll on your business reputation the list of risks go on when it comes to hiring app developers from a freelancing site.