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It's not unrealistic, I personally code on all these technologies (primarily on iOS and android native), but such engineer can be pretty costly and might not co
by AppAgency 10y ago
It's not unrealistic, I personally code on all these technologies (primarily on iOS and android native), but such engineer can be pretty costly and might not come on equity only easily.
Minimum experience of such engineer should be 6 to 10 (I'm 10) and they are either working on a pretty niche good paying job or running their own stuff, or selling their services as outsourcing firm (I do this, and have team of 30 other developers also).
Apart from this,even if you hire such engineer he would be able to do one piece only at a time and that's not good for today's time-to-market dynamics.
Also, you've paid already good for MVP (did you hire a local US firm?), I do most of the MVPs under 10 K, and price increase only when functionality is large, you don't need to develop things from scratch these days.
nevertheless, my best suggestion to you would be:-
1. Hire a person as CTO or Tech lead, who know 1 or 2 of technologies you're looking for, but may not necessarily do all the coding.
2. His KRAs should be architecture creation, leading everything tech at company, align business goals with tech. tasks, hire an execution engineering team, and get the stuff done by day to day management.
3. Allow him to vet and hire development agencies or teams, negotiate on deliverable while you give him a realistic budget, and then give him realistic development goals.
One guy can't do it all (even if he knows it all), a whole team of mobile dev inhouse is more costly than hiring a developer agency (it should be a good one though) so decide accordingly.
Feel free to ask me for any further discussion on topic, my site is http://www.agicent.com http://www.agicent.com.
- mayermail1977 10y agoThanks for your input. We are actually trying to get away from this way of working because it does not work any more. As we have an MVP, we want to get towards some initial traction and if feedback leads us to some direction then take aim in that direction and then if everything goes well then fundraise. Your type of company has great value early on to get an MVP or MDP but we got to a point where we want in house people to do it who concentrate only on this app. I appreciate your feedback though and will keep you in mind.
- AppAgency 10y agoI hear you, so apart from hiring an agency, my advise remains stick to following:- 1. Hire at least 3 people and not 1. 2. One Can be senior with an ability to work on multiple techs, while other 2 can be even fresh engineers (around or under 6 months of exp in their respective technology i.e android or iOS etc) and they shall scale themselves up in good company (It's tried and tested by many entrepreneurs, including myself). 3. Utilize that senior tech guy more like CTO, architect, and backbone programmer (one who takes care of DB, APIs, troubleshooting, guiding, figuring out libraries to use, pros and cons of various tech. stakes etc) and remaining 2 fresh would do all sort of coding in less cost.
- mayermail1977 10y agoThanks for your advice!
- AppAgency 10y agonp, take care.