Thanks for sharing this thread Bruno. Let me share my views:
I have worked with almost all type of designers and coders and in the end, there are only two models I can say that work for me: (1) hiring one man and having him working just for me (2) hiring a professional & competent company. Both of them are like the same in the end.
With (1) you pay less money for the result, but you spend a lot of time and energy hiring, teaching, giving instructions that sometimes they don't get it, dealing with their life problems and you can end 1 month with nothing done. Luckily you will make him learn/understand and future work will be done like you want to and fast or maybe you'll need to fire him and start all over again.
With (2) you save all that shitty part of (1) because you TRANSFER all the shit to the decent company you are hiring, and don't think they will do that shitty work for free. They must and will charge you for that. People that say they charge a lot simply has no idea about this issues.
My most common problems with "1-artist companies" are:
- the artist thinks he is the best of the world while you know he is not
- he is very unprofessional (as most artists are anyway)
- even though you know it takes him 1 day to do your task he will delay several weeks, you'll try contacting him and he will ignore even though he said it would be done in that same day/week
- you ask for changes and he feel insulted as he think the result is perfect (as most artists do anyway)
The list goes on and on. There may be a couple of guys that aren't like this, but I had no luck finding them and I am pretty sure they won't be as cheap as the regular "1-artist companies" are.
I have worked with almost all type of designers and coders and in the end, there are only two models I can say that work for me: (1) hiring one man and having him working just for me (2) hiring a professional & competent company. Both of them are like the same in the end.
With (1) you pay less money for the result, but you spend a lot of time and energy hiring, teaching, giving instructions that sometimes they don't get it, dealing with their life problems and you can end 1 month with nothing done. Luckily you will make him learn/understand and future work will be done like you want to and fast or maybe you'll need to fire him and start all over again.
With (2) you save all that shitty part of (1) because you TRANSFER all the shit to the decent company you are hiring, and don't think they will do that shitty work for free. They must and will charge you for that. People that say they charge a lot simply has no idea about this issues.
My most common problems with "1-artist companies" are:
- the artist thinks he is the best of the world while you know he is not
- he is very unprofessional (as most artists are anyway)
- even though you know it takes him 1 day to do your task he will delay several weeks, you'll try contacting him and he will ignore even though he said it would be done in that same day/week
- you ask for changes and he feel insulted as he think the result is perfect (as most artists do anyway)
The list goes on and on. There may be a couple of guys that aren't like this, but I had no luck finding them and I am pretty sure they won't be as cheap as the regular "1-artist companies" are.
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