I’m in your shoes now. I’m a UX designer trying to launch my app. The dev I hired is okay but he is not top notch. He frequently misses things that I have to ca

I’m in your shoes now. I’m a UX designer trying to launch my app. The dev I hired is okay but he is not top notch. He frequently misses things that I have to catch. It is tiring but I put up with it because the alternative is much more expensive. My advice would be to triple your budget from whatever you have in mind. Developers are not robots, they can’t estimate down to the dollar like a designer could (not that you’d want that). In all of my experience of working with devs, projects tend to run well over timeline and well over budget. So if you have say a 5k budget for your app, best assume it’ll cost 15k and take 3 times longer to complete. Another note: as a designer I have found developers to severely lack attention to detail. I get it. I’ve done dev work myself and know what it’s like to look at code and the difficulty of switching your mind to making sure every is per spec. I have worked around top notch developers and have yet to come across one with the attention to detail to never miss anything. You better be on your feet all the time and double and triple checking yourself. The product will likely never be delivered in the form you hope for. Last thing: spell the shit out of every task. Organize in pivotal or what have you. Having an idea of how something should look or function will not always carry over to the person you describe it to. It’ll be clear as day in your mind and they will only have a slight clue as to what you imagine. Spell it out to the letter - function by function, detail by detail, item by item. I know this sounds harsh but if you don’t do this you’ll lose a lot of money fast without a finished product. The only devs who are reading this now and thinking this is fken ridiculous are the devs who are much more experienced and are likely at the top of their game - not a freelancer type you can ever afford for an MVP. I dream of working with a dev like that but like I said I have yet to come across one. Maybe they all work at google amazon Facebook, who knows? So, expect delays, expect going well over your budget and be prepared to hand hold throughout the whole project.