I spent $40,000 hiring freelancers, here's what I learned
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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In this video I'm going to show you how I spent $40,000 hiring freelancers and what I learned from it
I'm going to cover everything you need to know to start hiring top tier freelancers to your business
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this video prolly won't go viral but MAN this video helped dispel one of my most feared thing to do atm with my app. heck this video is universal, EVERYONE who's looking to start an app and hiring online this video is IT! most people won't even realize how helpful this video is in general. i want to take the time and appreciate this video brother.
Thanks a lot!
Been loving your videos your one of my biggest inspirations at the moment 🎉
Wow, thank you!
Awesome video! Would love a part 2 showing the management side as that's usually the most difficult part for me. Like doing the training, dealing with issues, revisions and getting something high quality delivered. Either way got a lot of value from this!
Thanks for the kind words! What type of freelancer are you hiring? The management process all really depends on who and what you are hiring for
As a developer on Upwork who is struggling to still get his first contract (due to the competition), it hurts that this video makes it seem like those of us that don't have any experience shouldn't be given the chance 🤧.
Bro you're doing good work 👍🏻
Here is one more subscriber. Hope you do good content further 👍🏻
Thank you so much Steve for the enlightenment.
Really useful thank you
perfect!
Great video. About the NDA, and I doubt there is a great solution
for this but what good is an NDA actually going do from someone who lives in Eastern Europe if we're in America?
Did you do video meeting within the upwork platform or outside the upwork platform
i dont get why did you put that interview in the video if you where going to speed it up anyway
Its to show the steps where he is making a video call.
Very useful, thank you
If you are looking for a web developer then I can do that for you
@@sujal_2704 I am a web developer my self :)
@@sujal_2704really?
Trying to pick the brain of the hiring part of upwork. Can not get a job as a beginner...I have a nice folio, but somehow can't even get a job to change some css, not even thinking about building a page or website.
try to get jobs done even for free exchange of rating
Hi Steven, can you explain a nit more about that Stripe VS Apple payment?
Will Apple allow you to that on their platform?
Yep, a lot of bigger app co's do this to avoid the apple fees
Impressive, Steven.
I liked how you explained the whole thing nicely. You just got a new subscriber.
I have a question. How can I hire freelancer for maintaining my SAAS?
Should I pay someone every month for this or whenever I face problems, then I will go to Upwork and post new job.
How did you do for your saas?
Thanks for your kindness ❤
What does it mean reskin
Hi Steve love your content man, I'm looking for a good react native developper, anyone you can recommend that you have worked with in the past?
Sure DM me on IG
What is your opinion or experience - if any - on no code development. I’ve heard that it might be cheaper up front, but you will never own your app outright
Hi man, I’m quitting a corporate job right now(FAANG) because I had enough. Your videos inspire me to try creating own products. THANK YOU for that 🤝
I’m still afraid of stealing my idea / code I’ve paid for by a freelancer. Does NDA really a thing if there is a re-skin option? Why freelancers don’t copy/paste/re-skin projects from portfolio? Please, explain your confidence in freelancers 😊
Ps. +1 for Eastern European developers for the best quality/money ratio.
i don't want to be a racist here but indian devs shares client codes among each other i saw it many times on facebook but other devs don't that often belive me its enough them to work on multiple project they don't want to manage 1001 other things too like tik-tok ads etc
What would be your advice to make sure they are qualified if I am hiring as a non-tech person?
Either get someone who is technologically inclined on your team, or use ChatGPT.
No joke, it can be flawed, but if you tell it exactly what you want and what the freelancers need to know or what skills they need to have, it will get you those. It’s not perfect but if you don’t know enough about the field and don’t have an ally who does, that’s the next best thing.
It’s helped me a lot.
do you always do react native what do you use for backend/database?
Shoot me a DM on Instagram!
Is $2,000 the minimum you would offer a great developer? Also I dm’d you last week!
But another excellent video 😊
Hard question to answer! It really depends on the complexities of the app you are trying to build. Start simple with an MVP to save $ on development and then make improvements / changes as you get feedback from users.
Do you know how much it would cost me to do a ecommerce website app from scratch? Or do you think i should use a no code program like flutterflow to build my app?
Depends on the complexity of the ecommerce website. In 90 percent of cases you can do a no code website. There are many templates available for it. For no code you can get it built for $300 - $500. Coding it from scratch would cost at least $3000. I recommend going no end as a top notch website is not the "it" factor that makes your ecommerce successful but marketing, sales and branding. Save money with no code and spent the rest on what actually drive sales.
I think there are softwares available that allow you to turn your shopify site into an app pretty easily.
How do I know their portfolio is real ?
Upwork has a pretty strict vetting process for freelancers and their portfolios. But again, I always recommend you take the 15 min call with them and you'll find out pretty quickly if they know what they are talking about or not.
@@stevencravotta upwork doesn't verify portfolio items. it's better to have the call, fixed price task for the small amount and then hire using milestones (make them shorter as possible to see the progress because the freelancers could disappear). I have the profile as developer and the client in upwork. Now in upwork it's good amount of the profiles that was sold by their owners and definitely video call would help a lot.
@@stevencravotta i saw some posts on reddit that says some freelancers steal portfolio from somebody else and tell belong to them . thats why i was afraid
nice!
Question how do I know if my budget is enough to build an app that I want? Thanks
Hard question to answer! It really depends on the complexities of the app you are trying to build. Start simple with an MVP to save $ on development and then make improvements / changes as you get feedback from users.
Thats an amazing content
Thanks a lot for providing so much value
Can you drop a NDA please
NDA Dropped in description!
Can I please book a call with you
DM me on Instagram!
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Lol, I love the value here but that sped up video is just such a weird choice. It's like a spoiled apple ruining the whole bunch.
Can you give a tutorial on how to be cool like you lol
I learned it all from this dude named Alain.
hii bro , i think you should improve the editing quality of the video
Is it really possible to create a quality saas mobile app for 10k? i looked little bit on internet and it seems that you need way more money. I’ve been looking your videos you provide great value you totally inspire me that I start this i just doubt it that I can do this really whit 10 k
Yes it is depending on what it is could be done for even cheaper
Steven awesome video this is the Info I needed EXCELLENT WORK !!!!🦾