Why Crypto Developers are Overpriced and Slow

See this job post on discord?

I got 32 developers in my DMs within 24 hours.

Guess how many were actually legit and not scammers?

2.

That’s how insane the job market is right now. — Discord is not a place for you to be hiring developers from. Go to linkedin or upwork.

I was offered 2 prices.

$4,000 USD

and

$125 USD.

Guess who was better?

The 125$ Dude from nigeria.

The guy I paid $4,000 for ghosted me regularly and ended up working at 1/4th the amount of speed the dude from nigeria was working at.

For perspective, the 4k usd dude ended up finishing the project in 7 days.

The nigerian dude finished in 2 days.

THEY HAD THE SAME OUTCOME.

It’s insane how the coding world works. I 100% used the nigerian’s code since he used code off of websites he found online, it was more efficient and worked better. Compared to the 4k dude, (which lived in the usa), who’s code took an average of 3.4s for the page to load since he wrote all the code by hand which is just completely stupid. I’m never paying too much for a guy ever again without seeing past works, It was a mistake in hindsight but whatever, we grow and learn.

Nigerian dude’s code loaded the website in 1.67s on average. Isn’t that just mind-blowing?

That’s the difference between someone who works smart, and someone who works hard. 4K dude undoubtedly worked hard but lacked the brains to finish the project in a timely manner, probably because he was so used to working bigger projects with a different requirement of code when compared to mine, but seriously, these tiny things can’t even be seen until you hire a developer which is why, I, as an employer will only pay after seeing the result from here on out. You might think this is outlandish but it really isn’t. I’ve been looking at the wrong place the whole time.

I put out an ad for a discord bot developer a while back and tasked him with building a bot on discord that logs into my reddit account and autoposts onto 50 subreddits with 1 command. He finished it in 2 days and it cost me 30$ (this was back in 2019). I was so impressed, he now works for a friend of mine full time on his real life business. This comes to show just how powerful word of mouth is with cheap developers and just how skilled a kid can be — P.S he was 17 at the time and is currently 20-something, never really checked up on him lately but last I checked, he was the dept lead, managing a department of 9 people which might not sound like a lot, but it really is alot for a dude in his early 20s that hadn’t even gone to COLLEGE. (P.S the guy i told about this dev was the founder of a small project at the time and the dev was hired in tiny comissions as that’s all my friend could afford. only recently did his project pop-off which resulted in full time employment — context matters)

He gets paid 240,000 USD a year.

That’s all for today gents.

Cheers, and remember, the more you give for free, the richer you’ll get.