Comment on Ask HN: How do you find affordable but capable remote developers?Comments−edoceo11yI find mine on oDesk. Rates vary widely; good talent is always worth it. I'm paying between $12 and $38/hr.I post a small gig, with well defined deliverable. Then I have like 100+ applicants. I use a tool I created to filter this down to four or five.I'll do a quick interview, ask for code or something and then hire two of them for the same gig.I evaluate their work over this short period (10-20h).I pick the "winner"The cost of this hiring via experimental gig is very low and I've had good results thus far.−JFitzDelaOP11yThanks! I'll give oDesk another look.I'd just always heard about the difficulty finding an actually talented contractor, but I like your approach.
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I find mine on oDesk. Rates vary widely; good talent is always worth it. I'm paying between $12 and $38/hr.
I post a small gig, with well defined deliverable. Then I have like 100+ applicants. I use a tool I created to filter this down to four or five.
I'll do a quick interview, ask for code or something and then hire two of them for the same gig.
I evaluate their work over this short period (10-20h).
I pick the "winner"
The cost of this hiring via experimental gig is very low and I've had good results thus far.
Thanks! I'll give oDesk another look.
I'd just always heard about the difficulty finding an actually talented contractor, but I like your approach.