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Originally Posted by jcsike
hi guys, i wanted to give everyone an update. This thread got me to have a close friend of mine who is an amazing programmer look at the code and he told me it was shit. i then hired that guy for a % of rev once he built his system/admin, then he would license it to us for a %. Very good guy and a long time friend of mine.
he promised it would be done by april 1st. the database, admin, functions, are all written, you can login to it, looks great, almost done and its been that way for 3 weeks. there is 1 or 2 things that need to be completed and tested before its out and there has been 0 traction/progress and the need for this is time critical. His GF went nuts apparently and he has been hard to reach and flakey. a few days ago he told me he needed to hire a ui/php programmer to help with the integration of a few parts with the interface.
couldnt get ahold of him all day.
if we jump from this guy, it would be to nothing less than a reputable firm and we will pay whatever premium in order to get it done right, quickly and finally finish it.
i am so pissed right now, this has been a disaster.
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lol this sounds familiar. i got a contract job through robert half (some of you freelancers out there surely know of them) doing flash/actionsctipt ads for a startup. the company had already used RH to hire their main developer who had been dicking them around on their new site and delaying their launch with the same excuses as in your original post. eventually the owner got fed up, fired the guy, and they asked me to look at his code. it hurt to have to tell them "you have nothing. we're be starting from scratch"
while i spent the next month busting 18 hour shifts, they were still using RH to try and hire people to help me. they got hosed 7/10 times when RH sent someone they claimed knew what they were doing but didn't.
make sure the reputable firm you go to isn't a staffing firm. they tend to use the same flaky programmers you're trying to avoid.