Balancing study and work is REALLY hard (and source of struggle with my parents, which I totally understand :) . We managed to get an office on campus, so it's literally a 3min walk from the lecture hall to the office. Besides that, I was never big on "planning", but now I'm usually planning a month ahead on the uni assignments.
Mainly struggling with expanding the technical team. We have some freelancers, but developers in NL are harder to find than diamond.
How did we find the idea: actually came up with the idea during a meeting with teachers in high-school. They were complaining about the chaos the newly introduced laptops caused during classes. Then I learned the hard way that people that put money were their mouth is are your only real customers (yes, I got screwed over by my high school). Luckily, higher education is more willing to pay.
Email in profile if you'd like help finding developers — I've worked with devs on a number of different projects from places like Ukraine, Serbia, India, and China. Depending on what you're looking for, pay is in the range of $17-$40/hr for most common stacks, at a junior to mid-range level of expertise (I assume you're mostly working in a web-based stack like Javascript, Ruby, or PHP).
LinkedIn recruiting is your friend here, especially in places like India, as you can post jobs for very low INR prices as compared to recruiting in the West or in more affluent countries.
Not surprising to hear that the work-study part of the equation is one of the more difficult ones - but good job on getting it down! May I suggest hiring college students to do the technical heavy-lifting? In my limited experience, I've seen motivated college students routinely hammer out high-quality work in tasks such as code maintenance, testing, etc for half the pay of a full-time software engineer.
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Balancing study and work is REALLY hard (and source of struggle with my parents, which I totally understand :) . We managed to get an office on campus, so it's literally a 3min walk from the lecture hall to the office. Besides that, I was never big on "planning", but now I'm usually planning a month ahead on the uni assignments.
Mainly struggling with expanding the technical team. We have some freelancers, but developers in NL are harder to find than diamond.
How did we find the idea: actually came up with the idea during a meeting with teachers in high-school. They were complaining about the chaos the newly introduced laptops caused during classes. Then I learned the hard way that people that put money were their mouth is are your only real customers (yes, I got screwed over by my high school). Luckily, higher education is more willing to pay.
Email in profile if you'd like help finding developers — I've worked with devs on a number of different projects from places like Ukraine, Serbia, India, and China. Depending on what you're looking for, pay is in the range of $17-$40/hr for most common stacks, at a junior to mid-range level of expertise (I assume you're mostly working in a web-based stack like Javascript, Ruby, or PHP).
LinkedIn recruiting is your friend here, especially in places like India, as you can post jobs for very low INR prices as compared to recruiting in the West or in more affluent countries.
Not surprising to hear that the work-study part of the equation is one of the more difficult ones - but good job on getting it down! May I suggest hiring college students to do the technical heavy-lifting? In my limited experience, I've seen motivated college students routinely hammer out high-quality work in tasks such as code maintenance, testing, etc for half the pay of a full-time software engineer.