Ask HN: How do you find affordable but capable remote developers?
Hello!<p>I&#x27;ve finally gotten my business to the point that I NEED to hire on at least one subcontractor to take over some of the development work on my plate.<p>My first thought was to hire out of the Philippines, as I&#x27;d heard from a couple of online business bloggers I know that there are a lot of very capable folk willing to work for what amounts to a large sum for them but a small one for me.<p>I&#x27;m just concerned, I guess, about hiring anyone, much less a foreign worker, for no other reason than I&#x27;m scared to &quot;let go&quot; as it were and trust ANYONE.<p>To that end, I need to find someone capable in PHP -- most of my projects are currently built on a &quot;custom&quot; codebase (all my spaghetti code from 10 years of work) as I&#x27;d gotten too busy to keep up with the latest frameworks and such. I would LIKE, however, to get someone who can work with me to transition to Laravel&#x2F;Symfony (I&#x27;m not ready to go to Rails&#x2F;Node, I don&#x27;t think).<p>Anyone have advice for where&#x2F;how to find quality developers that fit the bill? I can&#x27;t quite afford to hire at American full-time rates, but I need full-time work. May be crappy of me, but there it is -- I&#x27;m in that weird limbo that I MUST get out of.<p>Thanks a million!