i think this is a probably that will problem that will never go away. we'll solve global warming first. i.e. this problem won't be solved, we're all going to

i think this is a probably that will problem that will never go away. we'll solve global warming first. i.e. this problem won't be solved, we're all going to die, but back to the subject at hand.... i did read one piece of advice that i haven't taken yet myself but i might....today? a founder-type needed an MVP and said he split off a very small slice of his MVP and asked 3 different contractors/groups/people to build it on some site, maybe Upwork, evaluated them, then gave the follow-on work to the one he liked best. this seems pretty gd reasonable to me. almost too reasonable, so i'm not sure i can believe it will work or not. so if you were trying to spend $1k on your MVP, maybe you need to fund three separate $100 projects -- see who does best. i'm def considering doing this now/today. i agree with verdverm below in that the really good dev shops/devs have more work than they can handle. and everyone else is trying to scrape by in a race to the bottom in which everyone suffers, but clients (like me and you) suffer least, potentially, even if our stuff often doesn't even work. that said, i still think there is some type of middle ground. i just haven't figured out what it is yet. one of the 'Freelancer' posts a commenter mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699703