Help Moving Forward Hiring App/Saas Developers?

[Kyujin]

TLDR: I could use some advice about how to proceed with hiring out developers to build Software for my SAAS business.



Hello there! I have been working on building out some software to help solve a key problem for real estate agents, and have reached a bit of a roadblock.

I have 0 experience with coding and have savings to hire out the development, and very significant Domain Experience in the field for what we are building. So far, I have a UI/UX mockup in Figma, and a detailed “spiderweb” of all the core features of what the MVP would entail. We only have some of the app coded in ReactNative so far. I hired a friend to work on the MVP but he now has a full time job that leaves him with no time to build out & finish what we were wanting for our app.

My main problem is that I don’t know how to move forward in getting a true Minimum Viable Product birthed into the world.

I don’t know how to code so my issue is I just don’t know if it’s worthwhile to spend easily over a year, maybe multiple years learning to code to get this off the ground. I understand it will be invaluable in the long term to learn coding so that if this idea doesn’t take off, I can move on to the next idea with a lot more knowledge to make it even better. But I'm pretty impatient! I have a burning desire to get something out there, start getting “market echoes” and to act, assess & adjust. I want to solve this problem but not knowing how to code makes it hard to put the software side of this together.

I have read that a potential to getting an MVP out sooner would be to build a lighter version of the app in something along the lines of Bubble.io and then with validation (and money coming in) I can charge forward with having a robust, complete app developed.

The alternative to building myself would be hiring it out. I am leaning much more toward this. I have funds I can use to hire a developer/team to get this off the ground, but am worried that without coding and development knowledge, hiring will be a difficult endeavor. I am up for the challenge but don’t want to just waste money & time hiring the wrong person or get scammed by someone taking advantage of my inexperience. Reading posts here people have said to spend a significant amount of time interviewing & communicating exactly what the software will do.


I am, truthfully, not worried about building without hard validation because I have been in the industry for years and have proof that what we are pursuing is needed, and by researching our competitors there are ways we can value skew to be an extremely valuable asset to our customers. I have also talked to a significant number of potential clients and know what we are building is wanted.


Any advice from those more knowledgeable about web/app/saas development (or anyone who has gone through hiring developers) would be greatly appreciated!

 

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