> Offshore is fine when you need grunt work, pounding out CRUD interfaces or already having a detailed spec. My partner works at a startup with a very simple C

> Offshore is fine when you need grunt work, pounding out CRUD interfaces or already having a detailed spec. My partner works at a startup with a very simple CRUD project. They outsourced one of the early sections of that UI. Even in such a simple case, integrating that component has been a huge time-sink and maintaining it is basically out of the question. They're working on a plan to rebuild it, as so often happens with these things. Fire-and-forget software simply doesn't work.