In mid-October, work began here in earnest on a new website with the goals of fixing bugs, making the main site mobile friendly, back-end infrastructure modernization, and new feature development.
After putting in about 2 weeks of work into a new main site here, the chief developer working on the new site became ill. He had been quite busy for us the since 2019 working on other sites and things were working well. I kept believing that it was a very temporary set-back. Instead of it being a week or two recovery, it's dragged on to present, and could potentially turn into a long term issue, with no instant resolution other than to try and expand resources here.
As such, I'm starting to search planet Earth for 2 additional developers, one which would be dedicated to this site. I'm looking for the top 5% of full-stack developers proficient in Laravel, Vue, PHP, MySQL, and Unix (Centos) with a strong understanding of both code and data structure design. 40-hours a week preferred but I'll take 20+. Someone who enjoys and appreciates video games isn't essential but would be a plus. Although a significant expense here, we're happy to pay market rates or better for great talent. I'd prefer someone we can have a direct relationship with, as opposed to being someone else's contractor as I'm looking for a long term (ideally multi-year) relationship here...
If this is you... please let me know. If you have ideas on how I can find such a person, or recent experience with some of the online talent marketplaces, please let me know.
Now we have had people that have volunteered to help out, but those offers seemed more centered around project management than actual development. If you have volunteered previously and you are the perfect person to build a new site and I've missed you, please reach out to me again. My largest concern with volunteer help for such development is that this is a big project, and there is a measurable cost for coming up to speed with a new developer and learning each other's ways, expectations, and more. As such, it's not worth it unless we can get substantial hours out of someone. Thus, my expectation that it would easier to pay market rates or market+10% rather than hunt for volunteers. If I'm mistaken, please let me know the good news.
Thanks to everyone...
Greg
After putting in about 2 weeks of work into a new main site here, the chief developer working on the new site became ill. He had been quite busy for us the since 2019 working on other sites and things were working well. I kept believing that it was a very temporary set-back. Instead of it being a week or two recovery, it's dragged on to present, and could potentially turn into a long term issue, with no instant resolution other than to try and expand resources here.
As such, I'm starting to search planet Earth for 2 additional developers, one which would be dedicated to this site. I'm looking for the top 5% of full-stack developers proficient in Laravel, Vue, PHP, MySQL, and Unix (Centos) with a strong understanding of both code and data structure design. 40-hours a week preferred but I'll take 20+. Someone who enjoys and appreciates video games isn't essential but would be a plus. Although a significant expense here, we're happy to pay market rates or better for great talent. I'd prefer someone we can have a direct relationship with, as opposed to being someone else's contractor as I'm looking for a long term (ideally multi-year) relationship here...
If this is you... please let me know. If you have ideas on how I can find such a person, or recent experience with some of the online talent marketplaces, please let me know.
Now we have had people that have volunteered to help out, but those offers seemed more centered around project management than actual development. If you have volunteered previously and you are the perfect person to build a new site and I've missed you, please reach out to me again. My largest concern with volunteer help for such development is that this is a big project, and there is a measurable cost for coming up to speed with a new developer and learning each other's ways, expectations, and more. As such, it's not worth it unless we can get substantial hours out of someone. Thus, my expectation that it would easier to pay market rates or market+10% rather than hunt for volunteers. If I'm mistaken, please let me know the good news.
Thanks to everyone...
Greg
