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But frankly: 3 devs * 5 months and you have nothing? This is a no go for every investor, i am sure.

To be fair, the two current devs have been on board full time for just over a month and a half.

But, your point stands.

Most competent web devs can have something working relatively quickly -- even if it is an early prototype - like a week or two from a good developer. I would recommend hiring someone who already knows the stack you are using. Learning as you go, especially for the main devs, is highly problematic -- the chance they produce a pile of shit is very high.

Having a few junior devs around the experienced devs is okay, but only inexperienced devs (in the technology at hand) is a really bad situation.

> I would recommend hiring someone who already knows the stack you are using.

Or choose a stack the developers know.

Usually I would agree with this, but he states elsewhere a big part of the back end is already completed (Node) and they have a dashboard (Angular) that is (mostly?) complete and needs connected to the back end.

The two devs also come from Ruby and stated it'd be more work than it's worth to move to that stack.

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