Just curious what is the budget you had for this, and what did the freelancers cost?
Was milestones part of the contract deliverables for payments?
Was milestones part of the contract deliverables for payments?
I had a fractional CTO / project manager / React dev + backend dev + devops + designer. All between 50% and 100% for 8 weeks. I also heavily participated in backend work.
Total cost came in a little over US20k.
I did not stipulate milestones and I was lucky because everything worked out (except documentation).
I definitely suggest stipulating milestones.