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Front End Developers
I was wondering how people around here find high quality front end developers? I've had terrible luck the past year. I've spent over $145,000 the past two years on UpWork. Never giving them another penny, the talent there is horrible.
In the past, I've had decent experience with studios. I'm leaning towards just going to one again, but I prefer the workflow of working with someone directly.
I'm not looking to be solicited by front end developers, please. This is specifically how people go about recruiting and I am not looking to hire additional developers at this time 
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To be honest, My advice to find great frontend UI/UX people would be to use dribbble.com/behance.com to find work that resonates with the type of designs you want for eg- you want a great crypto site, just search for crypto, find people who've made great crypto based project and reach out to them. That's what basically I do.
That's for design. I use Dribbble and am usually pretty happy with the design results. My biggest issue is finding competent frontend developers
Dm me, I have some friends who are good in UI UX
We did tons of work on Upwork, frontend and backend both. Now we prefer Linkedin.
Most of the clients and freelancers on upwork are now trash lol. If you want cheap dev over quality work, then upwork is good or if you’re happy to work at $5-10/hour then upwork is for you.
We charge $30-50/hour and that price is no good for upwork these days.
DM me with some info and I can put you in touch with someone from my network or team if possible.
$30-120/hour is a good number.
I typically aim to pay $25 - $40/hour depending on language and length of project. I don't think it should be a budget issue! The LinkedIn route is interesting. I didn't think of it because you can't really filter by "budget" and if I'm only willing to pay $40/hour, I don't want to be bothering people making $50 - $100/hour. Maybe I need to rethink that...
$120 an hour is an American, British, or Australian developer with a good chunk of experience. I'm usually much happier hiring a Ukranian with experience for less.
In fact, I've found a number of Ukranian developers at agencies who would easily land jobs in the US for $150K+ but their English isn't usually good and the agencies don't let me communicate/work with them directly for fear of poaching. This usually ends up delaying projects and overcomplicating things.
It depends on the frontend framework, if you want html, just ask them to convert the design to Webflow and export to HTML.
Mentally strong people do algorithm and architecture design and front end and back end and infrastructure ourself.
I am definitely not mentally strong, so I am okay not doing it all myself!
In this economy, you cannot.
Or maybe use a template?
When we were in college, we built a website for the student housing department.
We were paid ¥300/month (enough for 50 meals at school cafeteria) for about two years.
The first few months were really busy, as there were 30 Photoshop designs coming from the artist, and the 30 webpages need to be ready with 2 months.
We chose the front end boy as follows:
After the initial few months, we did everything ourself.
Let me know what kind of front end development you want we have many years experience working since 2007
Maybe you have bad taste and dont know what is a good design
Let me see some examples
150k in 2 years for what more specific?
I used to get a decent amount of work on Upwork at $50-75/hour 5-7 years ago when I last did freelance work. Just for fun I tried looking at the jobs last year and did not find a single fixed price job which had a reasonable budget (nothing above $10-20/hour, mostly <= $5/hour). Better to find freelancers or clients from your connections, if you have them.
Word of mouth, and the companies I work with, I befriend the employees, and keep in touch, when they leave the companies, etc. I don't trust freelance sites. EVER. Sorry, but that is just my prerogative. Only real life, or word of mouth.
I know a really good US based one, truly amazing work, etc. But, he is mostly busy... higher-price end.
I also have a magnificent Ukrainian lady developer, great skill in many different niches (mainstream, adult, etc) and the pricing is good, but EU, since she relocated.
I also have some Russian ones, and I have a Lithuanian full-stack agency.
You let me know which one you would like the contacts of.
Freelancing sites are basically race to the bottom. Clients also encourage this by only considering cost but not quality. I dont bid on these sites anymore.