I recently had a similar discussion on the topic with a friend. It is nearly impossible to find a good developer in a modern agile technology (web2py or other) for $15/hr anywhere. Most people I work with charge from $50/hr for a long term contract with guaranteed number of hours to $150 for an occasional gig. A top developer and/or a project with a strict close deadline can charge even more per hour.
The point is that web2py+python allows to build apps at least 10x faster than other systems, let's say Java. This means that a developer can deliver an app much faster but you have to pay them more per hour for an equivalent product. You can find $15 Java developers but not a web2py/python developers. People who are skilled with the latest technologies (any modern technology) are people who make a huge investment in their own time into learning and experimenting. This has a cost. This is what you pay for. Your edge is the short time to market and lower maintenance costs. If you think of saving on development, you end up with poor quality software. Anyway, when hiring somebody, always ask them to show you them what they have built with the tools in question. If they haven't built anything, they do not know how to use those tools. Massimo On Thursday, 15 January 2015 07:38:39 UTC-6, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > You expect people to be your dev lead, do all the admin work, basically > have all the responsibility for the success of this project, and you're > paying 15 bucks an hour? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
