did that on my website: outsourced to india.
a disaster.
then I wanted to hire someone in singapore. I was amazed by the price they asked for the job to be done (as I know what it implies to program as I used to program myself a couple of years ago).
maybe this was the "white boy factor"
funny story: I approached a guy, NUS alumni. he told me he started a company 2 years ago with another student of NUS. pricing seemed fair and timeline was ok.
Then I asked a couple more questions (and I wanted to meetup with the programmer) until he admitted he wanted to outsource the job to some Indian programmer (telling me that he managed to find the "right one"...)
It's pretty hard to find good webdesigners / programmers here...
I found 2 kinds:
- those who think that, when they know how to store/retrieve data from the database and manipulate pictures on photoshop it is enough for being a "programmer"
- those who think that because they know a bit more, they are unique and ask for thousands for stuff that they have already done. (like selling a session script for $500 when it takes 10 minutes to write. even better you can download a free one on internet)