Erik Johnson
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Great article! I’ve seen this happen time and time again with startups and bootstrappers, especially when there’s not a technical founder. People think the reliable devs are “too expensive”, but six months in, find out their “cheap” developer delivered code that doesn’t work, can’t scale, and is essentially worthless.

Pay for the reliable dev up-front and save yourself those six months of setting your money on fire — it’s far cheaper in the long run.

Design has the same issue. People balk at the sticker price, but having a solid design can cut your dev costs by 50%. We’ve done a lot of redesign projects that involved a lot of rework that would’ve been unnecessary if people had been willing to allocate the correct budget at the beginning — I wrote about that here: https://medium.com/@ejohnson99/5-reasons-why-we-don-t-invest-in-design-cc8308d24676

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you care about your project’s success, find the money to do it right.

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    Erik Johnson

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    Co-founder @ Purpose UX