Attention HN: What's the Best Way to Find a Good Dev for Your Startup?

Hey Everyone! I’m a startup founder who recently secured VC funding. As a technical founder, I understand the realistic and unrealistic expectations when working with developers. Over the past few weeks, I've been searching for my first dev, specifically a Next.js Full Stack Developer. I posted the job on LinkedIn and received over 1200 applications in the first week (I manually went through each and every one!). After screening, I narrowed it down to about 80 candidates for interviews (Again I was being very generous with screening and anyone I thought who even remotely had a chance got a interview). However, my interview experience has been quite disappointing. Out of the 80+ interviews, only 4 candidates had portfolio websites, which is quite surprising for a Next.js dev role. Even more frustrating was discovering that all 4 had copied the same tutorial for their portfolios. It's not hard to find out that people copied a tutorial when they all look the exact same... When i