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need advices about skilled developpers

by abdel
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Hello,

I am from a country where English is the 4th language after French, Arabic and Spanish

I have a contact list of skilled developers and coders who are unable to
market their services at international scale, because they miss the
communications skills in English language.

I plan to take advantage of this situation by building a
win-win relationship with those developers.

I can market their services and manage all communications with
the clients in return of a commission on their incomes.

Has anyone any idea on how can I deal with this subject?
How can I make this project a reality?
Is there any platforms, softwares, tools, infos,....or whatever it is which can be helpful for my plan?

All answers or suggestions will be very important to me.

Thanks in advance.
#advices #developpers #skilled
  • Profile picture of the author K Meier
    It basically sounds like you want to create a business, where your service is being the middle man between developers and employer (some sort of 3rd party outsourcing). Sounds like a good idea. I don't know of any specific tools, but I would recommend that you create a website, create some kind of portfolio on it, talking about what your developers can do, time, budget etc. and then you start looking for clients yourself. Freelancer,ODesk etc. is usually a good source for such things where you can find a ton of jobs.

    PS: It's kind of strange that developers don't speak english, since every programming language has all their commands and manuals in english.
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      You will do very well with outsourcing sites such as oDesk, acting as an intermediary. I've done this myself on a very small scale. Your most important tool will end up being your spreadsheets where you maintain all of the relevant details of your clients and providers.
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by K Meier View Post

      It's kind of strange that developers don't speak english, since every programming language has all their commands and manuals in english.
      I respectfully disagree. There's a far distance between being able to use a few specific words in a structured environment, and being able to converse fluently with one's clients, especially verbally.
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      • Profile picture of the author lluporini
        I have to agree with David.

        I'm from Argentina (we speak Latin Spanish here) and you can find very skilled developers in the local IT market who cannot speak and even write in English.

        The business you describe is a triky one but can be very rewarding if you do it right. Obviously it will no be without a lot of headaches based on following client requirements thru developers implementations.

        You'll have to take requierements, find the main pain points, analyse them, desing solutions, give instructions (very detailed) to developerts and follow them so you can hit compromised deadlines.

        You have to be a methodic.

        Are you planning on targetting specific niches already?

        Best,
        Luis
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  • Profile picture of the author ussher
    Problems you will run into if you do it independently.


    #1 client will ask you for something, but really mean something else. So you pass along what the client asked for to the developer to get a price and then that back to the client. If they agree you then get the developer to build it and pass it back to the client. They say thats not what I asked for (it is, but its not what they _wanted_).

    Its very common for the client to ask for something they didn't want and expect you to understand what they wanted.

    Its very un-common to get a client who knows how to ask for what they want.

    Your proposing to sit in the middle and try to translate that into another language. Be careful.

    Probably best to form a team with those developers rather than try to be an independent 3rd party.

    This (funny) video explains it from the developers point of view nicely.
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