>> Great advice from everyone, thank you. By hiring coders, the >> intention is to save myself time and effort but it sounds like I would >> only be replacing one problem with another. > > I hope I wasn't too discouraging, but you're definitely replacing one > problem with another.
I don't need encouragement, I need advice. :) > The questions are: > > 1) The relative sizes of the problems? No problems really. It's just kind of a never-ending project that could go in many directions. The more coders working on the project the more directions can be explored. > 2) How much your time is worth? Even if I spend 80 hours a week coding, the rate at which I code will be the project's limiting factor. I'd love to fix the bottleneck and make the limiting factor the number of coders I can hire. > 3) Do you prefer spec-writing and project management or writing code? If the choice is between 1 hour coding and 1 hour writing and managing in order to accomplish 1 hour of coding, I'll code. > For me, I'd probably rather take a week off my without pay from my day > jobs and write the code myself rather than pay somebody else $2000 to > do it. [And that's assuming I could find somebody competent to work > for $50/hour.] > >> I'm really not sure how to proceed but you guys have saved me from >> hurling myself into something I didn't understand. > > I don't know what language you're using, but my only other > recommendation might be to consider using a high level language like > Python instead of C. Developing a large application in Python instead > of C can save huge amounts of time. My guess would be that on average > Python development takes about 25% of the time that C would take. That's great advice but the language is already very high level. I guess I'm trying to take it one level higher at which point it becomes English. :) - Grant
