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Hire developers by the hour

PromotEdge International lets businesses in the USA, Canada and other markets hire developers by the hour. You buy hours in blocks of 40 for your fixes, small features and support tasks, and the developer works in your tools, under your direction. Our delivery team is in India.

Development help when you need it, with no long lock-in for work that comes and goes.

In short

Hourly hiring suits work that comes in small, uneven pieces: a bug this week, a new form next month. You send the task, a developer from our team does it, and the time it took comes out of the hours you bought.

Work that suits hourly developers

Small, clear tasks that your team can describe and check.

01

Bug fixes

Broken pages, forms that stop sending, errors after an update.

02

Small features

A new page template, a field on a form, a change to how something works.

03

Updates and upkeep

Plugin, theme and library updates, tested before they go live.

04

Speed and clean-up

Lighter pages, fewer scripts and old code removed.

05

Integrations

Connecting a form, CRM or payment tool to your site.

06

Cover for your team

Extra hands while your own developer is away or busy.

Roles we staff by the hour: every role on our hire developers page, from React, Node.js, Python and PHP to WordPress, Shopify, design, testing and data.

Brands we have worked with

  • Fine Organics
  • Weichai
  • Novozymes
  • Dozco
  • SANY
  • Prezent
  • Honest AI
  • SCENNE
  • Sara International
  • Vega MPS
  • Desi Machine Pvt. Ltd.

Work delivered from India. Results are shared one to one, under NDA.

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  • Since 2015
  • Round the clock, as per your location
  • 4 pillars
  • We travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months
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How we work

  1. 01

    Tell us the goal

    A rough note through the form on what you sell and what needs to change.

  2. 02

    We study your market

    How people find you today, where inquiries get lost, then a call in your working day.

  3. 03

    A written plan

    The work, who does it and how it is measured. Nothing starts until you approve it.

  4. 04

    The work starts

    Our team in India does the work, with calls set in your working hours.

  5. 05

    Reports and visits

    Every number we report shows its source and date range, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months.

Common challenges

What goes wrong with hourly hiring, and what we do about it

Typical situations, not results from a named client.

Hours creep up

Small tasks grow when nobody watches the clock. An estimate before each task keeps it in check, and the block you bought is the cap unless you add hours in writing.

A new person every time

Explaining your site again for each task wastes hours. We try to keep the same developer on your work.

Vague tasks

A task that is not clear turns into back-and-forth. We ask questions before starting, not after.

The work is not really occasional

If hourly tasks fill most of the month, a dedicated developer usually costs less and knows your code better.

How we work

How hiring by the hour works

  1. 01

    Agree the terms once

    The rate, the overlap hours and how tasks are sent, in writing. Hours are bought in blocks of 40, with no long lock-in, and the first week is a paid trial on a real task.

  2. 02

    Send a task

    Through your task board or by email, with what is wrong or what you want.

  3. 03

    Get an estimate

    We say how long we expect it to take, and you approve it.

  4. 04

    Work and review

    The developer does the task, a colleague reviews the code, and you check the result.

  5. 05

    Pay for the hours

    You are billed for the hours worked on the tasks you approved.

How hourly work stays under control

01

An estimate before each task

You see how many hours we expect before work starts, and we ask before going over.

02

Hours you can see

Hours go into a shared weekly timesheet with notes for each task, and you approve it before we bill.

03

The block you buy is your monthly cap

Work stops at the hours you bought for the month, unless you add more in writing.

04

Your tools and your code

Work happens in your repository under accounts you control. In the USA, a copyright transfer needs a signed writing, so the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for. We keep no rights in it.

05

An NDA for every engagement

Your code and plans stay confidential, on your NDA template or ours.

06

You approve every developer

You interview each developer and approve them before they start.

07

4 hours a day in US Eastern time

Your developer is online at least 4 hours a day inside US Eastern time, for questions and reviews.

08

Checked before you meet them

Every developer passes four checks before you meet them: a technical test, a code review, a spoken interview in English and a reference check.

09

A replacement if it is not working

If a developer is not the right fit, we replace them within 10 business days at no extra cost.

Hourly or dedicated

Choose by how much work you have and how steady it is.

A general guide, with no prices.
QuestionHourly developerDedicated developer
Fits whenWork comes in small, uneven piecesWork is steady, week after week
What you pay forThe hours worked, in blocks of 40About 160 hours a month, month to month
Same person each timeWe aim for itYes
Watch out forTasks waiting when the block runs outPaying for time when the backlog runs thin

What hiring developers by the hour means

You buy hours in blocks of 40 and spend them on your tasks, month to month, with no long lock-in. It is the simplest way to start with us, and you can move to a dedicated developer if the work grows.

It works best when someone on your side can describe each task and check the result. For a whole project built to a fixed scope, see outsourced web development. All the ways to hire are on our hire developers page.

Cost

What an hourly developer costs

There is no public price list, because the cost follows the job.

What affects the cost

  • The skills you need
  • The seniority
  • How many hours a month you expect
  • Whether tasks need to be done in your working hours

How we price

You see the rate and the terms in writing before anything starts. Every engagement is covered by an NDA, and the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for; we keep no rights in it.

Questions buyers ask us

  • Yes. You buy hours in blocks of 40 and use them on the tasks you approve, month to month, with no long lock-in.

  • One block of 40 hours, used on the tasks you approve. There is no long lock-in.

  • We aim to keep the same developer on your work, so you do not explain your site again for each task. If they are away, a colleague who can read the history steps in.

  • Every week you get a shared timesheet with the hours and a note for each task. You approve it before we bill.

  • When hourly tasks fill most of the month. A dedicated developer then usually costs less and knows your code better.

  • You do, once paid for, and the contract says so. We keep no rights in it. In the USA, a copyright transfer needs a signed writing, which is why we put it in the contract.

  • Yes. Part-time is 80 hours a month with the same developer, and full-time is about 160 hours a month. Both run month to month.

  • Yes. The first week is a paid trial on a real task from your backlog, so you can judge the developer before you go on.

  • Hourly work is bought in blocks of 40 hours; part-time is 80 hours a month and full-time about 160 hours a month, all month to month with no long lock-in. Every engagement is covered by an NDA, and the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for; we keep no rights in it. You interview and approve every person before they start, and the first week is a paid trial on a real task. The people you hire are online at least 4 hours a day inside US Eastern time. If someone is not the right fit, we replace them within 10 business days at no extra cost. Every developer passes four checks: a technical test, a code review, a spoken interview in English and a reference check (for designers, a practical design test and a review of past work take the place of the first two). You get an estimate before work starts, hours go into a shared weekly timesheet that you approve before we bill, and the block you buy is your monthly cap unless you add hours in writing. Staff augmentation ends on 30 days' notice, with a handover.

  • Avijit Bhattacherjee, who leads our website coding team, front end and back end, oversees our developers. We are available round the clock, 24x7, as per your location, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months.

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Guides on this topic

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    Software developer hourly rates: the public figures, and what drives the price

    Software developer hourly rates are quoted everywhere and explained almost nowhere. This guide starts from the public wage data for the USA and Canada, shows how a salary becomes a true hourly cost, lists what moves a contractor's or provider's rate up or down, and gives a way to compare quotes on what is inside them. It quotes no rate of ours, because ours depend on the work and are given in writing. It sits under our main guide on what staff augmentation is.

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