Alyssia Maluda

👋 Hey Product Hunt Community, 💬 So here's how it started... My cofounders and I built + sold a profitable SaaS startup over a decade, leading to a successful exit in 2021. (Read below for the full story⬇️) One key to success: fractional developers! Hiring dev talent was hard and we didn't want to shoulder the risk of partnering with hit-or-miss freelance or offshore talent. And in the early...

For my last startup, we used a creative approach: We hired fractional developers. Our senior developers already had full-time roles at AT&T/IBM/Oracle, but they contributed 20-30/hours per week to our startup. Why? - The extra compensation was nice (we couldn't pay them their full half time rate, but they were cool to accept a slight haircut since this was supplemental to their FT...

This might seem obvious but making sure the candidate can do what they claim they can do -- this is especially important for hiring software developers. For us we run a 20-minute timeboxed live coding exercise with our technical founder so he can see firsthand whether or not the candidate really knows how to code or codes on a regular basis. We've seen developers with stellar resumes, but...