No need to laugh. But you should seriously adjust your expectations. For a US firm, $1k will get you a website with around a dozen pages. Probably from a tem

No need to laugh. But you should seriously adjust your expectations. For a US firm, $1k will get you a website with around a dozen pages. Probably from a template. Maybe with a contact form or email signup. If you outsource, $1k will get you the above with maybe a single database interaction. E.g., you could probably expect to make a to-do list, with user login and password updating. Maybe it would even email out the tasks when they're due. But not much more than that. Figure it this way -- a kick ass US programmer will charge about $1k for a day's work. You can't get much built in a day. And for outsourcing, I can only speak to my experience, but they tend to take 4-5x longer (per hour basis) than I do. So the hourly is much cheaper, but the quality and efficiency are much worse (note: that's an obvious generalization... but the parent comment is exactly the type that will tend to get screwed on outsourcing due to lack of domain expertise.)