Codeable worth it? Are there good alternatives?

You can’t go wrong with Codeable, all the experts went through a tough vetting process. First, they start with a professional review. Second, technical exam. Third, behavioral interview & live coding test. Then, Codeable academy exam and a 45-day trial period. There is also a support staff that is working 24/7 to answer your questions and help with any issues. Additionally, after the project is complete, you have 29 days guarantee period to fix any bugs or issues for free as longs as it’s part of the scope.

Being a premuim pool of experts specializing in WordPress, you’d also expect premuim prices. The reason behind averaging out all estimates is to avoid “race to the bottom” kind of estimates to keep focus on the quality of work rather than trying to win a project by providing the lowest estimate; which is the reason you’ll see so many people complaining about work done on platforms like upwork and freelancer.

You can definitly find someone who can do your project cheaper on upwork or freelancer, but the quality and the result is never guaranteed.

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**Disclaimer**: I’m a Codeable expert.

Before I read this thread I would have told you that hiring developers is very hard for non developers and codeable derisks the process at the cost of jacking prices the longer you wait.

However, someone who seems to work for Codeable made some statements here that I find quite concerning. Their statements are such that I’m looking at the cost differently.

The ‘expert’ said that their pricing model is to avoid a race to the bottom, but that doesn’t add up. Pricing models like this wholly exist to pressure people to act quickly.

They may vet people and that is excellent. But taking a pricing scheme that is the academic definition of predatory and claiming it benefits a customer is a step too far.

I would likely avoid Codeable though we go right back to my first paragraph. If you’re not a developer you have no chance of successfully hiring and supervising a developer. It’s analogous to a plumber supervising a urologist.

As for alternatives, I have some bad news for you and me. I’ve tried to solve this problem before and gave up because it just wasn’t worth it. It’s a very hard problem where you take the worst problems of Human Resources, selecting software developers, and marketplace businesses and mash them all up. I don’t know of any good alternatives and I’m not sure we’ll ever see one. There are some sketchy ideas floating around – an entrepreneur I know wants to effectively turn an LLM into a Codeable-esque service and assign a very senior developer to about 2% per contract.

I tried getting a quote on a WP project once and all of the bids wanted to use elementor or Divi to accomplish after I specifically asked for a theme/builder-independent solution. Haven’t tried the service again after that experience