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Even if you receive a plan for an application from a "top-notch" developer, work outputted by low-cost contractors, especially on oDesk or Elance, will still be

Even if you receive a plan for an application from a "top-notch" developer, work outputted by low-cost contractors, especially on oDesk or Elance, will still be terrible. If you want a quality application, with care and love put into it, you will have to pay a quality price. I've personally been involved as a consultant in a job situation like this, and the client eventually just let me develop and program the application after he spent over a thousand dollars getting sub-par results from external developers. Even if you have something beautifully planned out and ready to be executed, like he did, there are still a world of things that could go wrong by hiring a lower cost developer.

sixQuarks 14y ago
What if the app is relatively simple?
- speedyapoc 14y ago
  What would you consider to be simple? Paying for a developer to come up with a plan and then find someone else to execute it might be more complicated and costly than just going with one pricier developer. Would you be able to provide samples of what your going for (change the idea, obviously, provide links to sample apps, etc)?
  - sixQuarks 14y ago
    It would be similar to a guessing game. Where users guess based on photos that are shown.
    - speedyapoc 14y ago
      Depending on how you provide the data for to the game, that doesn't sound too difficult. Just make sure the contractor knows how to make it look (provide graphical assets and whatnot), and also how you will be supplying the level information (hardcoding values is never the way for quiz style games, I would decide on a format to go by for providing the data). From there, just check up periodically on them and see how the app is doing. I'd create a private GitHub page for them to commit to and then build and test the app nightly to make sure everything is going well before they build or finish a feature.

sixQuarks 14y ago

What if the app is relatively simple?

speedyapoc 14y ago
What would you consider to be simple? Paying for a developer to come up with a plan and then find someone else to execute it might be more complicated and costly than just going with one pricier developer. Would you be able to provide samples of what your going for (change the idea, obviously, provide links to sample apps, etc)?
- sixQuarks 14y ago
  It would be similar to a guessing game. Where users guess based on photos that are shown.
  - speedyapoc 14y ago
    Depending on how you provide the data for to the game, that doesn't sound too difficult. Just make sure the contractor knows how to make it look (provide graphical assets and whatnot), and also how you will be supplying the level information (hardcoding values is never the way for quiz style games, I would decide on a format to go by for providing the data). From there, just check up periodically on them and see how the app is doing. I'd create a private GitHub page for them to commit to and then build and test the app nightly to make sure everything is going well before they build or finish a feature.