Comments on: Why we got brilliant engineers for only 2,000$ / year

By: Nathan Schrenk

Nathan Schrenk — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:54:28 +0000

And when those small startups go out of business the services on which you depend will probably cease to exist and you’ll need to scramble to replace them.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:22:42 +0000

Yep – small business philosophy – I help small business’ by being affordable and also reduce hourly rates for retainer contracts – By working fully web-based overheads are minimal. Interesting point about retainers – hours go down as well as up eg a 40 hour monthly retainer – between 27 hours upto 78 hours but averages out at 44 hours over the year – so another saving of 4 hours.

By: BorisDinkevich

BorisDinkevich — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:34:57 +0000

@Sarwar Its not about developers working for free. Its about small startups that provide 80% of what you need, willing to do the extra 20% at no charge.

By: Sarwar Faruque

Sarwar Faruque — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:53:41 +0000

How do we get in contact with these developers? Could you recommend any.

By: BorisDinkevich

BorisDinkevich — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:02:13 +0000

@Josepth @DXL
- The large, cheap and most time saving: GitHub, MailChimp & WebFaction
- The small and “bendy” – a bunch of analytics (real-time chat & satisfaction/feedback forms)

By: DXL

DXL — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:22:37 +0000

Sounds interesting. Could you give some examples? What services should I be thinking of?

By: Maintenance Man

Maintenance Man — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:02:40 +0000

That’s a steal. You can’t get somebody to work for you at $2000 a month here. Forget about a year.

By: Joseph Turian

Joseph Turian — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:56:27 +0000

“I already have about 5 different companies that I pay 10-20$ a month, for different services that would of taken me months to implement.”

Like whom? What sort of services? Could you please elaborate?