Good question! For starters, the annual cost of a full-time senior-level iOS Engineer in the US now exceeds $140,000, plus benefits. Aside from that, you may not always have enough work to keep them busy at all times, so you're stuck paying for time you aren't able to utilize. With the monthly plan, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need to ensure you're only paying your iOS Engineer when you have work available for them.

Once subscribed, you're able to add as many development requests to your queue as you'd like, and they will be delivered one by one.

On average, most requests are completed in just two days or less. However, more complex requests can take longer.

We don't bill by the hour, and we don't track hours. We found it to be a very inefficient and unpredictable way of working with clients.You might find some freelancer on Upwork for $35/hour and think "I could hire them at the same price and get 200 hours of work!" But that's like comparing apples to oranges. Our focus is on delivering results at a consistently high level of quality and as little risk to you as possible. Without that high bar of quality, more hours of work just means more code to fix in the future. We know hourly billing is entrenched in this industry, and this may require a mental leap you're not yet comfortable with.

This is a tough one to answer because issues can be of wildly different complexities. “Improve validation on our checkout page” is much different than “Build an integration with this third-party API”. While we can't tell you how many requests we'll finish (and that's not really an interesting metric anyway), we can guarantee that you will get a steady stream of updates and progress from us. No more dealing with developers that “go dark” for weeks or months at a time. Each week we will ship something of value to you. Larger issues will be split and delivered progressively to improve communication and collaboration, and to make sure you are getting consistent value out of our relationship.