Ask HN: How do I hire someone for work I am not familiar with (web development)?
These all communicate mainly through HTTP POST with a few lines of PHP code.
I now need to automate some more tasks. I could write the code myself, as I did in the past, but I am not an expert when it comes to web technologies (I have worked almost exclusively on iOS for the past decade) and it would take me ages.
So I decided to hire someone on a contract basis to get the job done, but I realized I don't know how to proceed.
Do I hire a PHP developer? Or it's better to use some other language/technology? (Python? Ruby?)
What I need does not require only code, but also a rudimentary web interface with which I can interact and a database to keep some data.
Should I find someone that does both? Or are these separate roles? What about security?
How would you proceed?