Hello Conor,
Thanks for the reply. For this proposed app, we would like to go with an iterative way of development. We will send build every day you will give us feedback and the next task. AS it seems quite unclear at this stage, it is very hard for us to estimate all task of the proposed app because it seems that there may be many additional constraints to manage this contest participant app.
So it would be great if you can go with the hiring process and assign us task in an iterative manner. you can create trello board for this project and invite me over there. We will provide you our Trello user id later.
We would like to suggest to use a relational database instead of NoSql(Firebase database). Because such relative type of operation always relational database is suitable.
Now it more clear to us. We can work on the play Game functionality. we would required 8-12 Hours for proposed play now feature.
You can hire us with US$12/hr rate.
Here we have considered that we can point of the player will be updated by you.
So let us know if you agree then please complete hiring process so we can plan developer for this task.
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks