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You are in an entrepreneur group. There are also a bunch of startup founders here.
I have found that cheap offshore outsourcing is a really bad idea. This is from experience. You yourself say “relatively cheap hourly salary”
In the startup world, development requires a lot of back and forth communication. I have seen a lot of this. You have a couple of customers and you’ve had some success, so you think this will work with everyone. You might have had some customers that document to the nth degree what needs to happen. You’ve had some “big clients,” though I’m not sure what you mean by that. The startup world is completely different. Entrepreneurs live in a world of constant change. Entrepreneurs are a very different world where there is only one person likely able to do things. They don’t have time to document things
I’ve heard these and similar claims from others. I’m sure that you’ve had great people that you’ve worked with on your side. I’m not bad mouthing you. I’ve never seen this model work, ever. I’ve got friends of mine in London that have used Eastern European software outsourcing, and none of them have had any success. To have success with software, you have to have people that you trust and to work with on a face to face basis where it is easy to have communication back and forth. In my consulting work, I’ve had to pick up the pieces from these failed efforts. In the startup world, All I ever saw was garbage, they couldn’t even get the graphics right.
Reddit is full of people that don’t know about software development. I hope they don’t make a mistake and think that cheap out sourcing will work.