It really depends on your business. In my experience outsourced code is not as well supported, generally not as well written but pretty good value for money. T

It really depends on your business. In my experience outsourced code is not as well supported, generally not as well written but pretty good value for money. The major risk I always saw is remote devs disappearing (seen it happen plenty of times in the past) and you end up with a sub standard product which will cost a lot to fix. A lot relies on finding the right place to outsource to :) But as I said; it really depends on your business and the code that is going to be written. If you have a lot of wide ranging code outside your core "app" then probably it makes sense to start outsourcing aspects of it. Keep core development in house (it's too risky to leave that to anyone else). You mention the issue of managing remote developers; this is a ball ache and a real pain, especially if they are in a foreign country. If you get someone awkward it becomes a pig to organise. But it's not impossible; you just have to be firm and clear with your instructions. And set pretty rigid time limits. (also it's worth pointing out: HN is indexing very quickly by Google and the email you posted is already searchable on there - so you might want to consider removing it or putting it elsewhere if you don't want to risk this being found :))