Finding Programmers to Build a Website?

jameseyjamesey asks: "I have a really good idea for an Ajax/Web2.0 website, but I have no idea how to code or put it together. I know what HTML, Java, PHP are but I have no idea clue how to code or program. Due to my demanding job, I also have no time to learn how to code. I have the layout, design, options, settings and method of making money all mapped out. Who can I talk to, and where can I go to work with someone to get my website developed and off the ground?"

Comments

Craigslist

[poopdeville]

Craigslist is good.

But really, wouldn't you rather just hire a slashdotter like me? http://www.reed.edu/~sollaa/

Re:Craigslist

[Anonymous Coward]

A 22 year out of college kid may know how to code some stuff, but they're VASTLY inadequate for medium to large sized projects. So much for experience (knowing what to use - platform/language/frameworks/etc, knowing how to write GOOD comments, the kind of personnal discipline & strictness required to organize proper and thorough documentation, knowing when to use which patterns, when to or not to optimize, write excellent code, etc). But the main thing is application ARCHITECTURE. At least if someone gets some young inexperienced kid to do most of the coding, one should get an experienced coder to DESIGN the damn thing first. Otherwise these kids will 99.999% of the time come up with something that apparently works and seems to do the job, but which is an ugly hack at best (not overly secure, doesn't scale too well, hard if even possible to maintain, etc). Seen all too many absolute craptastic jobs by new guys (hundreds of them)... I hate it, but hey, I make a good living fixing their mess, so I really can't complain that bad. Think about it, would you hire someone who's "pounded nails for a couple years" to design and build a 20 storey building for you? I don't know if it would stay up for long, but that's about the extent of it... Knowledge and experience truly matter here. That new carpenter would probably do a fine job for lots of tasks (just like that new coder would), but you need a good architect/engineer to make blueprints first.

And sorry, but someone who lists simple markup as a programming language? Your resume goes straight to file 13 without even looking any further. Not to mention things like using DIVs (with id="Title") instead of headers (like h1)? Extremely minimalistic too - not complete crap, but much lacking. Can't say it's an overly fancy design either (layout, margins, typography, graphics, the n00b comments in the CSS that usually show one's direct copy/paste usage of some common templates like bluerobot's and the like [verus CSS knowledge/expertize a.k.a. knowing what you're doing])... Don't want to hurt your feelings, but we wouldn't take you on any project at any price. Hard to tell where your expertize is... It's not (X)HTML, it's not CSS, it's not design, no mentions of any programming languages or computing technologies anywhere... You gotta bring something to a team, be a source of knowledge and expertize others can rely onto - and you've proven just about the inverse all around... Sorry kid, but this is a tough market. Some pros have a hard time to make a living at it, you'll have to try like a hundred times harder if you want to succed. We could hire more qualified people at minimum wage... (not that we do)

DeVry, Other Schools

[MBCook]

As a CIS student at DeVry, my senior project will be similar. Students can bring in their own project and get it approved, or choose one from a list of projects that have been requested by companies/organizations/individuals and approved by faculty. While it would take a while and may not be perfect (you always run the risk you get a team of slackers), you would get it for free. Depending on complexity, etc it may be a project that is designed to run multiple semesters (one team does it one semester, one finishes it the next). The next semester starts in the start of March (first week or so) because DeVry runs on trimesters.

You may be able to get some very smart students to work on it. The idea of getting to do something with AJAX and such sounds interesting to me.

Even if you don't have a local DeVry (if you are near a big city, you probably do, check their site: DeVry.edu), there are almost certainly similar things at other universities (public and private). Even if you can't get it done as a senior project/self study type thing (which would have faculty oversight to make sure it is done right/good design decisions), you could find some bright college students who would be willing to do it for very little money (compared to hiring professional programmers).

Short of that? There are websites that you can have people do your coding for you. You could try something like that, I suppose.

you got no money I guess

[Pavel Stratil]

Well I guess you don't wanna pay people... There's an article about recruting people to work for free on an IT related project. You would know if you searched on my site :)

RentaCoder

[DiSKiLLeR]

RentaCoder. Well, Maybe.