So…you want to start a server and you absolutely must have a developer to help you. There are many many posts in server bazaar asking for a developer but
Have a read of the below…
1 = What do you have to offer?
What are you bringing to the table? A good developer will spend hours, days, weeks of their life helping you build this, what will be your contribution? What will they get out of it?
2 = Offering Server Access
This is a red flag, it means what you have is worthless and not worthy of being protected. If you already have something of value to start with, be it an established community of players or already custom scripts, you won’t let just anyone have at it. Your developer should be a person you trust hugely.
3 = It will take time, how long can you wait?
You can easily take a list of releases and scripts and load them onto the server, follow the docs and be up and running with something functional but if you want something bespoke or better than what is already available, you have to be patient, give it time.
4 = What will you do? Answer it
Apart from “being the leader” what will your contribution be? How will you help build the server? establish what you and the existing team have already done.
5 = Do you need a developer or basic tech support?
A real developer, codes, builds apps, can even show examples of their work on GitHub, they can show what projects they have contributed to.
A tech support person, can edit a few pre-released scripts, setup a basic web server and is a little bit technical but really, not a developer.
What type of person are you looking for?
6 = Have a plan written out which they can see.
Its very easy to charge ahead, spin up a cheap host for $2.99 a month and presto you have your own FiveM Server but what do you do after you get 20 players? What happens after 3 months?
No developer will commit to your project if you have no idea where you are going with it. So make a plan.
7 = What will be unique or why should people care about your server?
Do you want to create the best racing server? If so, why will it be better than the others? How will you improve on what is already available for players to join.
8 = If you read the advert, would you want to do it?
Imagine reading a job advert which says you have to put in lots of effort and time, with no pay and the advert is only a few lines of text, would you be inspired to get stuck into the project?
9 = Build trust
Don’t lie and bluff about what you have, be 100% honest, don’t waste the time of the other person.
On the flip side, do they have coding examples? Do you get along with them? You both have trust each other.
10 = What do they get from it?
Some developers are really happy to stay behind the scenes and just build but what do they get from the project long term? Some are very happy to build it for the fun of building but others might want a more permanent position.