Ask HN: Can you help me improve this Hybrid Development offering?
Earlier I have asked about "What are your views on India based development agencies?"
Based on feedback & sessions with other project owners, I have concluded following:
- Startups/ Individuals always prefer to work with someone local, but they come with a cost
- Working with outsourcing companies is cheap but posses a huge risk of product quality and other business risks
- Local developer means working face to face & have whiteboard conversations for product - that’s a huge plus
- Having someone local is huge plus, as they understand context of problems very quickly
- Scaling up & scaling down tech team is very difficult
- Working with Tech Interns posses huge risk as well
- Outsourcing teams can scale up & scale down quickly
- Given a proper direction and code reviews outsourcing teams can deliver much much faster
We are trying to reduce the cost of rapid development with below Hybrid model.
- 40 Hours of CTO or Project Manager (120 to 150 USD/ hour)
- 160 x 2 Hours of Frontend Developer / Mobile Developer / Backend Developer (20 to 40 USD /hour)
- 60 Hours of QA or Documentation for Sanity (20 to 40 USD / hour)
I am writing this to receive your thoughts on Hybrid Model we are experimenting this as our new offering.