I used an external dev to create a website that solves my own problem. It works for me, but I hope it could also be useful to others.
It is a search engine and aggregator of equity crowdfunding deals (www.hellosharky.com) plus some tools to score the startups.
I am a finance guy and by looking at it, I feel it can look better. My programmer is a young guy in India and he does exactly what I tell him to do, but doesn't offer any technical suggestions or alternative ideas to improve the functionality.
One example: the central functionality is search which should allow a user to enter any (ideally) reasonable keyword and instantly see all relevant startups. I tried to think of how it should produce the best result so I decided to manually tag every startup so that it better matches what people type. This approach kind of works for now, but I assume it is a very inefficient way of doing it at scale.
He is a good guy and I am sure we can do things much more efficiently.
I would very much appreciate any feedback on both the product and the tech so I can give him better guidance and ideas.
Thanks much.
I'm not sure how difficult is to fix this, but if I sort by "Round" it sorts only the visible companies. I expect to sort all the companies and show the ones in the correct page.
Otherwise you could use something like Algolia.