That's not the problem. The problem you have is defined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemo

That's not the problem. The problem you have is defined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons It is the information asymmetry. How do you expect to hire competent devs/providers? Yourself? A random third party HR company? (hint: still the same problem cause as today) You have to find a way to crack this, no matter the approach you take. There's also the problem of finding a too competent provider/developer who gets bored or is distracted with other things. You need to accept it's a learning process and do the homework. You can't throw money at it. You can't cheat. There's no way around it. Sorry.