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Hi Hunters! 👋
I’m Alex, founder of Expert Remote. And I’d like to share my story.
I started as a freelance developer on Upwork in 2012. Then in 2014-2019, I ran my own IT agency. We helped dozens of startups build their engineering teams, and some even became unicorns. After our agency was acquired (we had 50+ devs) I worked on 3 startups as a co-founder. Suddenly, I was on the hiring side! What could go wrong, right? Well, I’ve still made a couple of common hiring mistakes, which cost me a lot of time, money, and headaches. 😆
Being a freelancer, an agency owner and a startup founder gave me some perspective. I realized “agency” and “freelance marketplace” models have too many flaws: often poor quality, slow time to hire, and unreasonably high costs. There should be a better way, right? 🤔
So, a year ago, I met with my former CTO (@alex_dyadischev), and we came up with a simple idea:
1. Source developers across different countries
2. Thoroughly verify their tech skills, communication skills, and English
3. Accept only top-1% of applicants to our elite talent pool
4. Build a platform that will allow startups to hire from this pool easily
What we’ve got today:
✅ 400+ vetted IT talents
✅ 30+ countries coverage
✅ 9 active clients
✅ Rates from $20/h
The process is simple:
1. Signup. And start browsing available IT talents immediately.
2. Interview within 24h. Select developers yourself or leave it to us. We’ll organize the interviews.
3. Hire in 2-3 days. With pre-screened candidates, it takes only 1-2 interviews to find a perfect match.
4. Ongoing support. You focus on building a product. We take care of payments, taxes, IP, etc.
5. Buy-out. After 1 year you can hire our developer in-house for just a “1-month gross salary” fee.
If you've had frustrating experiences with freelancers, expensive agencies, crowded job boards, and a hectic schedule full of interviews, you may find our platform useful. 🙈
But in the first place, we are looking forward and would very much appreciate your feedback on our platform, talent pool, business model, anything!
Thank you! ✌️
Alex
We are still producing talents, especially from tier 3 cities for its very cost effectiveness. In our early stages, what mistake we were doing is that we were outsourcing our resources to every niche, and then the problem occurs, because not every resource can perform well on every niche, then we decided to make our niche only for funded startups and train them according to their problems and then supply to them only. It's working very well now :)
@alex_chepovoi Great concept and great idea! Being on the IT market for almost 20 years I really know how deceptive a software outsourcing could be. Your just Google "hire Java developer" and you get tons of websites offering hassle-free hiring, BUT in reality this is you who actually do the screening, interviewing, measuring soft and hard skills of every single tech specialist. It takes hours and days. Looks like your product at least shorten this distance a while which is really great! Good luck with this one!
Congratulations with launching your product! I think it's useful idea, hope it will bring great collaborations and interesting challenges!
Congrats on a great launch!
How did you go about finding the clients to the marketplace?
Awesome product. The best hire platform with clear process and good professionals! Keep it up, guys!
I like the approach you took. Interviews are a real headache for my small technical team. Here I receive ready-made candidates, verified from all sides, at reasonable rates. Correct individual approach to everyone. Keep it up!
Wow! This is incredible. Great platform for the developers and easy for companies for resourcing. Great work! Congratulations! 😊🥳
Congrats for the launch. If I understood correctly, there is a fair amount of resources required to select add new developers in your pool of experts. So you are aiming for quality vs quantity with automatization/AI ?
The talent selection process is extensive and the discount great. I have the confidence that each suitable developer fulfills the required technical and communication skills. Signing up is a no-brainer.
Having a large in-house dev team I wasn't convinced about bringing in outsourced talent, but I've been working with Alex for a while now and it has been a great great experience! Feel free to reach out if you want me details.
Congrats on the launch! What are some of the criteria you use to either accept/reject the candidate, is there a list of tech skills you check for?
