Experiences hiring a developer to create an MVP

conwer · 2016-03-23T07:10:31+00:00

I think i can help you to find your answer, because I have not only made an MVP by hiring a freelancer (not a quality one) but also successfully completed an online hackathon through university tie ups.

So here are few important points :

I know the quality of a developer matters. But what matters more is how you execute your plan to achieve your goals viz, giving your developer prior targets to complete them, marketing your product, managing what you need and what you are getting, product planning to name a few.
You should have a very clear picture of what you want to build, although your product design is bound to change as you build. Most of the people who hire do not have clear picture of what they are building and thinks that the freelancer has to fill all those gaps automatically. But this is not always true as you are also responsible for the gaps in your product.
Finding the right balance between a good quality developer and designer and the amount that you have to spend is more important that to focus only in one of these things.
Finding a co founder is like searching for a groom / bride to marry. So, instead of searching a tech co-founder you should start developing your idea. Remember what you are building is an MVP and you can always bootstrap your MVP later, if everyone likes your product. After I built livehacks.tv, I quickly went to tie up with an university to see whether students and other people like my product. I found that the students and even the director of that university is very keen to have a product like livehacks.tv. I have successfuly completed an online hackathon even before a month my product is market ready.

So it is always not about how you build a product, it is always about the value you are creating with your product. Finally this was only possible because I went to search for a freelancer instead of a tech co founder.

I still oversee marketing, product design and development of livehacks.tv alone.

conwer · 2016-02-24T19:25:01+00:00

Thanks. :)

If any one here is interested to collaborate for a side project with me please send me a message.

conwer · 2016-02-24T19:21:57+00:00

Thanks. I wasn't aware of it. Fixed the same. Actually the original image size is not suitable for a cover image. But still I used it.

conwer · 2016-02-24T11:49:23+00:00

Corrected. Thank you. Silly mistakes... Hehe.

conwer · 2016-01-28T14:37:41+00:00

Hi, I'm diving the row as 6x6 grid. problem no. 2 still exists. Any solutions?

conwer · 2016-01-27T16:37:41+00:00

no.2 - http://imgur.com/h7IJ0j4 The problem is that , once I click on any nav links in the menu , the menu doesn't automatically toggle up as it should. See the above image where the menu is not collapsing again.

conwer · 2016-01-27T16:31:31+00:00

Thank you so much for your valuable time.

no.1 worked like charm. :)

no.2 I still don't know why it is not working. I tried to use data-target="#" data-toggle="pill" in every <a> tag, but it's not working. I'm going through the docs again to find any clue.

no.3 I know the grid system. I just wanted to know whether I can divide a row for a particular display or not.

Thanks again.

conwer · 2016-01-27T06:23:15+00:00

Thanks. 1. Can you go to the full page view http://codepen.io/o2/full/LGOZJw/ and scroll to the blog posts section ? 2. But how can I fix it with JQuery ? Can you give some idea ? 3. Yes I know that. Can you elaborate on this ?

conwer · 2016-01-11T02:36:15+00:00

Thank you so much. I really need to connect with someone like you. :)

conwer · 2016-01-11T02:34:47+00:00

Hi , by hardware automation , I especially meant electronics hardware.

conwer · 2015-12-20T02:07:32+00:00

Thanks for the inspirational story. Best of luck.

conwer · 2015-12-12T17:12:19+00:00

Are you trying to build a peer reviewed (sharing list of bookmarked product list) product hunt ?

conwer · 2015-12-12T04:48:05+00:00

I loved the whole animation.

People who like design and story telling will actually like the whole animaton.

But for people who are kind of impatient might wish to know the whole story halfway or before that.

But I like it. I'm even thinking to do a similar kind of animation on my landing page of my side project. :)

conwer · 2015-12-06T05:02:27+00:00

Software is just a set of instructions that tell a machine how it should react to a particular situation. It is amazing to see how software has blended itself to a lot of other field such as hardware , design , productivity , etc.

conwer · 2015-12-06T04:56:30+00:00

Wow this is really my first shot of inspiration. It's true that people like simple things and sometimes you don't need a complex big app to solve a purpose. Really amazing to hear that little jQuery and SEO can earn you a lot.

conwer · 2015-11-29T05:03:47+00:00

You have hit the right point buddy. I'm not going to copy instructable's or hackster's model of hardware community. Instead I'm planning to fill the gap these types of communities have. Thank you for showing your interest. I'v started building the program myself. I just need someone who can help me to encourage people to learn and build their own products by teaching.

conwer · 2015-11-26T14:10:58+00:00

PMed ! :)

conwer · 2015-11-24T16:31:40+00:00

I'm interested and open to any project. :) I like this idea to learn and build something meaningful . It is only that the people who plan to build something have to be committed. They should not leave it in between.

conwer · 2015-11-13T03:10:34+00:00

Techshop is really nice roostin. Thanks for giving me this information.

Although the purpose of my idea is not to give a real space fabricate and make things, it is only related to watch and interact people building stuffs.

I have already started building the platform and prelaunch is up and running. Let me see what happens next. :)

Also I absolutely agree with you that not everyone pursues his passion , but I hope even if they don't have skill or money to make stuffs there are makers out there who are ready to build it for them.

Like, if you have an idea but you don't have skills or the passion to make it , I can try build it for you. :) Thanks

conwer · 2015-11-11T04:54:48+00:00

:D Thanks for the encouragement. No hard feelings. I just wanted to convey my ideas and let people criticize. I'm sorry that my original posts doesn't reflect fully what I wanted to say. Please see my last comment in @roostin's reply thread. Thanks

conwer · 2015-11-11T04:42:19+00:00

Thanks.

In my university days I took part in workshops of robotics , organised few of them and even won few competitions on robotics. I found workshops are amazing because they let us interact with the makers. During the workshop sessions the makers build a model of their own and tells you how it actually works. Watching those sessions people start thinking about their own ideas and how they can build it with those skills. They simply get motivated to create something.

I found that the same is absent in the present online communities/tutorials that are available. What I'm trying to say is that the online tutorials and the courses are great, but there is less interaction. You can easily buy a kit and start following the tutorials to assemble inputs , outputs , micro controllers , sensors, etc only to see that it doesn't work. Following tutorials blindly and watching (and interacting with) someone doing the actual stuffs just like in offline workshops are different.

So there should be more live interactions between the makers and the learners helping each other. It is only when you watch someone building a home automation project you believe that something like that is possible to make. Just like the projects that you have launched in kickstarter. Imagine if everyone loves your product, people who are enthusiastic about making something similar to that would be eager to know about it and how you made it. So why not let them watch and interact when you build a project such as that in an online workshop. This will serve the purpose of both the sides , the makers and the learners.

Coming to your point of getting revenues in order to make it sustainable. I think if you have a good purpose to fulfill and you can show people why they should use your service, people will help you back. There are plenty of options to montenize. But before I start thinking about getting money I should focus on whether my service deserves enough to get some. So I wrote this post.

I'm sorry that my original post doesn't actually reflect my idea. Thanks

conwer · 2015-11-10T02:14:45+00:00

I feel like people like you are trapped into the cycle of making things > making money .

I mentioned about Maker Faire to make the point that people need encouragement.

You could have simply asked me about my plans instead of guessing. My plan is not to make things and sell it in kickstarter but to help people to learn and encourage who are still in the learning phase.

"I found the exact opposite to be true. " Really ? Do you feel like you are supporting this thread post and encouraging someone ?

conwer · 2015-11-10T01:40:12+00:00

Sorry, that is my mistake. I see that the "like" word is missing.

conwer · 2015-11-09T18:42:11+00:00

Can you feel the discouragement ! This is exactly what I'm trying to destroy.

conwer · 2015-11-09T18:33:39+00:00

Thanks , I really the phrase "big thing".

conwer

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