Should You Hire a Web Developer OR an Agency in 2022?

Is it better to hire a web developer or a web agency?

This is a question that I’ve heard many times over the years.

When you hire a web developer, you can’t expect the same amount of attention to be given to the project. Since there’s only one person behind the screen who’s trying to juggle everything at once, this poses a few risks.

You always need someone to double check your work, and once you scale out, it’s not feasible to just have one person managing all the servers, development, QA, testing etc.

I’ve experienced this recently with a client who has handed over a project to us after having worked with a developer who didn’t have the specialised skills needed to deliver what was expected.

When this client first came to us needing help, I explained that there are a vast variety of different roles to cover and it’s not just all about coding. There’s testing, design, scalability and so on.

Based on each of these roles, if you were looking at hiring someone specialised for each, you’d be up for tens of thousands of dollars.

So in many cases, it makes much more sense to go with an agency.

Unless your project is quite small such as maintaining a small website with brief updates here and there, then using a web developer directly will do the trick.

❓Do you prefer working with a web agency or an individual web developer? Comment below!

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