Multiple web app projects long term

Hi,

Have you already written a more detailed description of the website you need? Workflow? Wireframes? If not then no problems at all and I can help you with that. We can also arrange a time for a video call with screen sharing (so we sit literally next to each other and see the same screen) and we can do it together. I'm great at suggesting the most profitable (ROI) and user-friendly (UX) solutions and I'm good at drawing/writing it all nicely into one document so after that I can give you pretty accurate estimations (same can do others then). Writing/drawing the detailed specification of requirements is crucial also to avoid the situation you get at the end of the day something that isn't working best for your business.

I have close to 25 years of experience in software development by now and I have also here http://crnw.uk/samples some samples of work done recently. I have experience in working in big companies but most of my life being a freelancer and owner of my own small web agency. Since 2004 we're a small team of senior freelancers used to work together. Hasura, NodeJS & Laravel in the BE and Elm, React & VueJS in front-end has been my main stack past years but I have experience also with Elixir, Python/Django, Java/Spring, Haskell and no even point to write here all the languages/frameworks that I have worked with during my long career as a programmer. I'm also experienced in deep learning, big data & AI. For mobile development, I mostly use Flutter but also use React Native and I started like most of the devs with writing native apps.I have been working also with tons of open-source solutions like WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, Pimcore, MODx, etc. etc. I do work also with a world-class senior designer so all together we cover all you may need. For desktop apps, I prefer to use ElectronJS but in the past, I have done a lot also in Java and of course native apps. Past years I prefer to do almost everything with the Hasura back-end and Elm-lang front-end and use NodeJS where Hasura doesn't give me the functionality out of the box (usually some 10-30% of the whole functionality). Why? Because Hasura = more than insanely faster back-end development. Hasura & Elm both also mean no bugs 99.99% guaranteed that I just love because I don't like debugging and even more I have explained to customers why they have to pay for endless hours of work spent on debugging. I can promise that in Hasura and Elm errors are just not possible. I've seen during the past 2 years exactly three runtime errors in Elm and all those during my free time experimenting with new exciting stuff. In Hasura I haven't managed to see any bugs yet. You can read about it more here: http://rnw.uk/elm-hasura

My English is fluent as I have lived in the UK since 2004 (I'm from digitally most advanced country Estonia) and I give good communication and understand well what is the main goal of the business and always suggest the best, fastest, non-breaking and latest technological solutions. Actually, we classify our team into class 1 developers, class 2 and class 3. Number 3 developers need babysitting all the time and you must check everything they do and often fix their bugs yourself. We never work with such people! Number 2 developers deliver what is ordered and that's it. Their hourly rate is from £10 and they're usually younger. We use them to do time-consuming simple tasks to save costs. But our core-team will learn quickly the business model, suggest best practices, always use the latest tech and you won't find any bugs in the code if you let me choose the stack and do the setup. My code is beautiful to read (okay Elm actually can't be written in an ugly way and Hasura is codeless), well documented and I practice the most popular development automation trends: https://i.imgur.com/ljzw8zM.png (more technical text).

Of course, I use GIT, Docker and CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment) like most decent software developers do. For time tracking I use at most cases the best and most accurate time tracker out there that is a combination of the market leader TimeDoctor.com and RescueTime.com for really accurate time tracking with optional screenshots and keyboard/mouse activity (even all the programs/apps and websites visited are tracked) so you can be 100% sure that every single minute was really worked on your project.

At TopTal.com my hourly rate was around £40 (from where quite a lot went to their commission and project manager) but I decided to leave and build up CrewNew.com with some other great devs and we have decided to build our customer base so at the moment my rate is from £25-£35 depending on the amount of work + as a young startup we all offer up to 30% discount if you help to spread the word: http://crnw.uk/discount By the way, you can't just compare people by an hourly rate as most of the developers out there work way too slow and deliver poor code that you need to pay endless hours to debug. Also, many developers don’t follow the standards so taking over the development by someone else will cost you a lot (if needed of course). You need to consider alongside the price also the quality, speed of working and able to verify the number of hours worked (time tracker is not used by most of the remote devs so you literally have no idea how much work was actually done). Honesty and trust to win long-term customers is always my primary goal and that's the reason I decided to start using the time tracker already 7 years ago.

Best,
Kaspar