I think your mind is already made up in that you want to immediately hire contractors because you think it'll save you time. In the short term, sure, they might be able to churn out a landing page quick - in the long term however, you're shooting yourself in the foot. It's going to be expensive to hire a good developer unless you happen to find someone that doesn't know what they're worth. Anyone with experience will charge $200+ per hour, and if you hire a newbie for cheap you risk ending up with spaghetti code that will be impossible to understand or work on. This will cost you more money later as a competent developer will have to rewrite whatever was written.
There are plenty of better options to get started fast that won't lead to unnecessary throwaway work or wasted money:
- DIY no code landing page builders like Carrd. You can just hook up a Stripe button to a form and ask people to use it. That's what I do for my MVPs even as an experienced developer.
- Depending on the idea you might not even need a landing page, just create a stripe checkout link and send it to people directly
- Learn to build a landing page with any CSS framework like Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc: it doesn't take that much time especially with chatgpt involved and as a bonus the skills you gain won't be throwaway as you can apply them to your next idea. Really unlikely that your very first idea will take off anyway so you'll need multiple tries, and ideas are mostly worthless - it's all about execution
I think your mind is already made up in that you want to immediately hire contractors because you think it'll save you time. In the short term, sure, they might be able to churn out a landing page quick - in the long term however, you're shooting yourself in the foot. It's going to be expensive to hire a good developer unless you happen to find someone that doesn't know what they're worth. Anyone with experience will charge $200+ per hour, and if you hire a newbie for cheap you risk ending up with spaghetti code that will be impossible to understand or work on. This will cost you more money later as a competent developer will have to rewrite whatever was written.
There are plenty of better options to get started fast that won't lead to unnecessary throwaway work or wasted money:
- DIY no code landing page builders like Carrd. You can just hook up a Stripe button to a form and ask people to use it. That's what I do for my MVPs even as an experienced developer.
- Depending on the idea you might not even need a landing page, just create a stripe checkout link and send it to people directly
- Learn to build a landing page with any CSS framework like Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc: it doesn't take that much time especially with chatgpt involved and as a bonus the skills you gain won't be throwaway as you can apply them to your next idea. Really unlikely that your very first idea will take off anyway so you'll need multiple tries, and ideas are mostly worthless - it's all about execution