At my startup we’ve recently started hiring for a Founding Engineer with Mobile Development skills (Flutter) and some backend.
It seems impossible to find a right candidate for us and we are indeed looking at an agency for now even if I was fairly against it as a CTO.
It’s most likely a numbers game, but it’s hard to find coders that also have some kind of founders attitude.
Either people who are founders are indeed building something themselves or you get 9-5ers who think they can do startups while having 0 stamina/drive.
This is hard