How to choose a developer for iOS and not make a mistake?

Question

Freelance

In general, this is the situation. I left an order to create an application on free-lance.ru and freelansim.ru/ . I received a total of about 25 offers, plus I myself found about 5 developers, and that 30 freelancers. So the question is, how can I make the best choice and not make a mistake? Maybe there is no specific answer, but at least share your experience. Thank you!

Answer 1

From personal experience:
It was necessary to make a utility to work with the database. Himself as a developer on other platforms, I estimated the TK per hour of work and $ 50 maximum.
Free-lance received about 10-20 offers with prices from $400 and terms of a week.
On freelansim, some estimated the order from $1000, until there were 2 sane people, one of whom said that it was 30 hours of work, the second for an hour.
Of course, everything depends on the project itself, but it is very difficult to choose a performer. Time 2 came across like and adequate programmers, but in the end they studied on my order. And that's not very nice...

Answer 2

Not a panacea, but a paid test task for those whose portfolio liked the most, you will immediately see the commitment, the style of work, how someone thinks, etc., more than half of the selected ones will be eliminated immediately and it will be easier to choose. The task should be small (a couple of hours - a day of work) moderately complex and require thinking, and not copy-pasting, and a small deadline. Naturally, if cooperation is supposed to be long-term, if a short one-time project, then this approach will be unreasonably expensive.

Answer 3

A freelancer may be a non-professional. May be an "interesting person". It might fall.
You can protect yourself from the first one with an interview, a test task (this time should be paid).
From the second - partially with papers: contracts, acts, etc. Or work on time, not on projects.
From the third - no way.
Just prepare for the fact that freelancers will have to change. And one day you will find someone with whom you will fruitfully cooperate.