Here’s Why Your Startup Shouldn’t Hire Freelancers
Are you thinking about hiring a freelancer for your startup? We suggest that you hold off on that decision until you brief yourself on all the reasons why hiring a freelancer for your startup’s product development and acceleration is one of the biggest blunders you can commit, as it has the potential to seriously hamper your scale-up momentum.
- Good Freelancers Are (Very) Expensive
Experienced freelancers are not only hard to come by, but they are also extremely expensive. Good technical freelancers charge upwards of $90 per hour, and that’s not something that will work for a startup like yours which is still in the process of accelerating product development and preparing to scale-up. Since your startup is still in the process of trial and error, paying someone on an hourly basis is an extremely unwise financial decision.
- Freelancers Aren’t Committed To Your Startup Needs
A startup like yours is in desperate need of a full-time developer committed to you and only you. Since freelancers work on multiple projects at the same time, they won’t have the same level of dedication towards the needs of your startup as a full-time developer would. Moreover, when you don’t know exactly what you need, hiring a freelancer might not work out for you. As you just won’t have the freedom to make a lot of changes in the direction you want them to go. The more you delay and the more changes you make, the more you’ll be penalised for it.
They will also not be invested in your startup, as they are just there for their next paycheck. They look at your startup as just another assignment, and they will move on from it as soon as they’re paid. You can’t bring them back in for re-work or to make any other changes without paying them hefty additional fees.
- No Reliable Proof Of Their Credentials
The problem with hiring freelancers is that there is no easy way to verify the credentials and experience on their resume. Freelancers can easily falsify their skills, abilities and references. Moreover, there is no guarantee that they will be capable of delivering high-quality output. Vetting freelancers is an absolute headache and even after all that trouble, you might just end up with someone completely unreliable.
- You Can Neither Efficiently Control Nor Supervise A Freelancer
The problem with hiring freelancers is that you cannot control the way they work. Since they are independent contractors, they work at their own discretion. Moreover, you cannot even supervise the work they’re doing for you, you can only give them an assignment and have it dropped off to you when it’s finished, which means that you have no room for improvisation and no idea of the quality of the output until after the project is completed and billed for.
Instead, Outsource your startup’s remote development needs through Magic Factory.
Magic Factory is the world’s first offshoring platform designed specifically to help startup’s like yours scale-up. You can eliminate all the disadvantages of hiring a freelancer by letting us give your startup the competitive edge of a unicorn with our talented remote development team who are committed to you and only you.
Our resources are solely dedicated to your startup needs and will work full-time to accelerate your startup’s growth and profitability. They are made available to you at extremely cost-effective rates, and ee can assure you that our outsourced developers are from the top institutions of India and are extremely good at what they do. They have also gone through an extensive screening process which ensures that their credentials and prior experience are true and reliable.
Since our developers belong to a tribe of professionals, there will never be a problem they cannot be fixed. When you hire a freelancer, you have no backup in case of any unfortunate circumstances or difficulties in problem-solving, but our remote developers are backed by an extensive pool of experts. Moreover, our remote developers can easily be supervised and directed through our ‘always-on video’ feature, which ensures enhanced communication and greater productivity. Switch to Magic Factory today and offshore all your remote development problem’s away. To know more about us, click here.
With a promise to give your startup the competitive edge of a unicorn
Signing off,
Team Magic Factory
