The quality and eventual
success of your mobile software product depends on those who create it. A good
software development company must be experienced, reliable, customer- and
result-oriented, and so on, and so forth. But where should you look for it? You
may start with Googling, but the results will rather show, which companies have
great SEO, rather than really great developers. And the natural way to disclose
the qualities and competences of a software development company is to gather as
much information as possible, to finally make a decision.
Perhaps the most
advanced solution will be freelance marketplaces (oDesk, Elance, Guru,
PeoplePerHour, Freelancer.com). Here you can not only search for remote
contractors (namely software developers), but manage a project and carry out
payments. Such marketplaces make the collaboration between contractors and
clients as transparent as possible; for example, oDesk offers software for time
tracking, which is a usual thing to check the progress of a current task by a
hourly-rate project. You can find a number of software developers from around
the world there, read their profiles, learn more details about them, their
services, job proposals, check their portfolio and reviews. Gather all the
necessary information about the companies to form the whole picture, contact
them. Working on a freelance marketplace brings a high degree of confidence in
your contractor. The rest is a matter of choice.
Advice/references are
reliable sources of information after you have gathered a bulk of opinions.
It's good if you have trusted friends or acquaintances who can advise you on a
software development company, the experience of collaboration, etc. Otherwise
you may gather opinions from various forums. You may participate in a business
forum to search for an advice, then in a developers forum, to check the details
about a peculiar company. You may start a discussion or search for the
corresponding topics. Very popular are question-and-answer websites (such as
Quora or Yahoo! Answers). You simply leave a question there and get numerous
answers to compare and analyze.
Another way is social
networks. The biggest player here is a business social network LinkedIn - a
popular place for starting business relationships. There you may look for a
dedicated group and find candidates to carry out your project, check their
websites and portfolios. You may filter the contractors according to your
preferences (by location, for example, to see if the time zone is convenient
for the future communication).
Application stores
(Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, BlackBerry World) are also
great additional sources of information about the results of developers' work:
here you can see apps' rating and read the reviews. See the portfolio and
search for the apps created by the company. Check the active apps, which are
regularly updated and supported. Presence of support depends on the will of the
software owner; lack of support does not necessarily mean that the app itself
is a bad one.
There are also
specialized events, such as various mobile conferences, held at different
levels and dedicated to different topics. There you can learn more about
software companies, and contact representatives for a personal conversation.
That's a great way of establishing long-term business relationships, having met
your potential developer face to face.
All of these places can
provide you with the information to make a choice and contact the development
company (or companies) you got interested in. A good choice can lead you to a
reliable partner company, which will follow you throughout the whole software cycle
to provide you with design, development, testing and support.
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