I got fed up trying to hire team members quickly. It got me to the point that I am working on a solution to that problem. It is too early to talk about it, but

I got fed up trying to hire team members quickly. It got me to the point that I am working on a solution to that problem. It is too early to talk about it, but it will kill the spam of irrelevant applications common to normal freelance sites and provide real-time view into availability of talent pool. I agree on de-emphasizing PHP in general. You want to know what framework that person is comfortable with and why it's their method of choice. Look for people from C# or Java or Python background. They can write PHP if they have to.