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Advice for Anyone Using Global Coders, Programmers, Website Designers

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Jul 29, 2026

Ezekiel Diet Note:  For anyone who doesn’t already know you can hire coders, programmers, and website designers online from all over the world. The advantage to small businesses or individuals is the cost is much less than hiring US coders and programmers. And although I feel for the US workers that need to make $500 to $1,000 a day or more, your budget just doesn’t buy much before you have to abort from the losses. Your budget goes much further in India. However, there are pitfalls to avoid, that’s what this blog post is about.

I was inspired in the mid 1990s by Amazon’s success and knew this was the future. I just needed to find a niche market.

I’ve been hiring Indian and in the 2000s Russian programmers for 3 decades. Almost half my life I’ve had different projects going every 3 to 5 years and a lot has changed.

If you’re looking for a simple brochure type website that’s 10+ pages and you don’t want to learn how to do this yourself via Wix or any of the other template sites; try Upwork or Freelancer.

For a simple 10 page brochure type site or a blog site ready to go, you can probably have that done for $300 to $500 maximum. There are thousands of templates out there. However, one of the easiest ways to quickly communicate what you want is find an existing website format and colors you like and use it as a request for quote so the designers sees exactly what you want for them to duplicate.

If you want to design a custom Customer Relationship Management (CRM) web based program to replace Act!, with online order forms, merchant services, and state of the art website you can get that for $10K to $20K. The benefit of owning the software, that becomes the heart and brains of your company, is you avoid the new subscription-until-you-die economy where you really don’t own anything and pay many multiples of $10K over time.  The day you can’t afford their subscription service you lose your business software system.  It’s pay or die.

ZOHO is a good example of spending $10K plus to custom build your business CRM, online forms, merchant services, bookkeeping, etc. only to be an indentured servant to ZOHO and pay via subscription until you die. You don’t own anything you build on the ZOHO platform. Don’t make that mistake.

One of the issues with a subscription provider business is your company is less valuable when all your software is off-the-shelf programs, or forever subscription based programs. If you own proprietary software your company will be more valuable and harder to duplicate.

But that’s not the point of this post.  I would like to offer advice on how to navigate these sites and hire contract workers from India, Pakistan, US, Europe, etc. without getting tangled up hiring the wrong people.

Hiring contract workers was much easier 25 years ago on sites like Upwork and Freelancer.  My experience was they were more knowledgeable and quicker than contract workers today. Also, I could communicate everything via email and drawings and within weeks or a couple months I had a tested working system ready to launch.  That’s not the case today.

Everything good gets adulterated over time by middle men who want to take a piece of the pie.

My first piece of advice when using an Upwork or Freelancer type site is never indicate who you are, or your main email, and current website. The reason is there are so many contract workers now that they will scour these contractor sites for website owners and spam you endlessly trying to get work.  I get 5 to 10 a day, everyday I block their email address and they come right back with another email address. Use a separate Protonmail account that keeps all that trash somewhere else.

My second piece of advice is never give a programmer a contract for multiple parts of a project that have to come together in a cohesive working system. Break big jobs down into manageable parts. Like project: 1) Website, 2) Online Forms, 3) CRM database, 4) Affiliate program sites and commission. If you try to hire one person or a “team” to do all this as one project it will become a nightmare of  testing and integration. Dozens of issues will manifest after the contract is complete.

My third piece of advice is never hire a storefront coder or programmer. These are guys who claim they have a “team” working for them. They will always refer to their “team.”  This is code for I charge you $20 an hour and I find $8 an hour Indian contractor, to take advantage of, and the storefront programmer earns the $12 an hour in arbitrage. Whether all this works as planned depends on the competency of the storefront programmer. My experience has not been good with these guys.

Here’s the problem with that system. The storefront programmer is juggling maybe a dozen or more projects where they can’t possibly know all the coding issues as intimately as the actual person doing the work.  He never fully understands or tests the site to perform the task intended. If you give a huge complicated project to a this company it will get bogged down in incompetence of multiple low paid (maybe disgruntled) workers just doing enough to get by, and no one realizes all the problems left behind. Also, when a contract worker only gets small pieces of the project this week, and another piece next month they lose momentum and knowledge of where they left off and what needs to be done.

This is a much bigger problem today than ever before. Make absolutely sure you are dealing with the programmer who will start and see your project through from start to finish.

One sign you’re dealing with a storefront programmer is you post a job on one of the contract programmer sites and almost immediately you get an unbelievable review of your existing site, nature of the project and pages of flowery selling that promises you everything you asked for, that’s all BS.  AI quoting of jobs is a very big problem, it can make a stupid bumpkin look like a highly trained engineer.

The next issue is reviews are not always what they seem.  I’ve been disgusted and angry at several programmers over the years and never really reviewed them as honestly as I should have. I don’t want to hurt anyone financially and I think many people are that way. But you’re looking for reviews where they mention the specific programmer or coder by name.

The programmer contract sites do function as a deterrent to a programmer just taking your money and running away. They get a steady stream of contracts from these sites and negative reviews cost them dearly. And if the site sponsoring them cuts them off their income goes away overnight.  But I’m sure they just morph into a new identity and email and start all over like eBay sellers with too many negative reviews.

I’ve done business with many Indian contractors operating under an alias.

So never commit a large project to one programmer until you’ve tested the water and happy with their work.

Another issue that I’ve experienced recently. A competitively priced initial quote from a qualified contractor causes you to waste time checking their reviews, education, projects completed only to learn later after much dialogue that their initial quote was just a “Place Keeper” and not anywhere close to the real quote. It’s kind of like a dating site where you see the picture, you meet them only to learn their picture was 15 years ago and just a “way to get your attention”.  Always ask “is this a just a place-keeper bid?” before you waste a lot of time.

Another issue with these contract worker sites like Upwork and Freelancer is they force you to communicate with your programmer via Chat session styled narrow box screens where any communication becomes a 150 feet wall of text. Most of these contractors are scared-to-death to use email outside their captor’s restraints.  Also, to communicate any issue requires the extra step of logging in to Upwork or Freelancer site to use a stupid chat box session.  Bypass this stupid way of communicating with recorded Zoom meetings every week.

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