Finding the perfect freelance developer

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Has anyone here ever hired a freelance software developer to help out with their business needs? Would you mind sharing your experience?

 

If so:

  1) Did you have a specific type of a developer in mind and how strict were you in deciding who to hire (with regards to your baseline idea of said specific type)?

  2) How extensive of a vision did you have for your project (knowing basic features/functionality versus coding language/security protocols/exact UI/UX, every detail possible, etc.)

  3) How did structure payments terms?

  4) Would you recommend them? If not, why?

 

I need someone for a fairly basic-to-understand project (inventory repricer), but one that I'd ideally want to be as functional as possible without breaking the bank (basic version of this can be done by a CS grad). I'm currently in the vetting process, but I'm getting a variety of candidates: anywhere from recents grads with developer jobs looking for side-gigs to guys with 10+ years of experience. I understand the inner workings of my project to a degree (commercial solutions exist, I just need a custom one), but I'm not sure how important it is to find someone that has done this type of a project before (hard to find and usually more expensive) versus someone really proficient with software development, in which case they "technically" should be able to do this just as fast and efficiently, but won't possess that "project knowledge" that could make a huge difference in knowing already how this software should operate and interact with a very popular online marketplace (higher risk of going back and forth and wasting time and money)

I know what I want, rule-based features, functionality, but not to the point where it's all drawn out to cover every single micro detail. It's actually closer to copying what I'm currently using, removing a lot of the fluff that I don't use, and adding features that I want. And if that goes well, keep adding things (a reports page to show how a certain price was achieved for each product I carry, just an example and this one would be more for analyzing the methodology than anything else)

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