If you keep requirement changes to a minimum during the project then that should help get you maintainable code from your freelancer, assuming they are competen

If you keep requirement changes to a minimum during the project then that should help get you maintainable code from your freelancer, assuming they are competent enough to provide it. I’m always eager to offer this to clients and I sleep better knowing I’m not going to piss off the next developer who has to look at my work. But with startups in particular, where requirements change every few hours, this really gets in the way of the planning and execution needed to write maintainable and scalable code.