From experience, part time / contractors for early stage startups are usually counterproductive. They just won’t be committed, loyal, and giving 120%, while incurring massive management overhead. Don’t believe I’ve ever seen a success story.

Proper full time employees or don’t hire at all.

Depends. Most companies don’t bother to hire from high inflation countries. There’s amazing, less tapped talent there and they only work in contract basis due to currency/laws. I hired them, even as founding engineers and would totally do it again.

Product & Engineering Mgr @ Consensys.io Founder https://hype.day & http://commons.so (acquired by Pulse, Mozilla) & pureple.com, Ex-Microsoft. Opinions my own

That said, it’s a specific, intentional scenario. I’ve seen code bases implemented by contractors(that does not fit in the definition above) where adding something as simple as dark mode took weeks due to impossible to maintain code base.