So I've been reading all of your comments and I'd like to address the issue. 1. Cost was/is a big issue. If it hadn't been, I would have hired someone locally.

So I've been reading all of your comments and I'd like to address the issue. 1. Cost was/is a big issue. If it hadn't been, I would have hired someone locally. I picked the best (or what I thought was best) team at the time based on price and the intelligence questions I received from them. 2. The company knew I was a non-technical founder. I made is explicitly clear that they would have to use their best judgement to implement the required features without having me to review the code. 3. I actively encouraged them to use their best judgement. As things became viewable on the front end, I would give feedback and they would tell me what they thought would work. 4. The primary issue is a communication issue on two levels: a) Communication between a non-coder and a coder b) Actual messages not coming through (status updates sent on schedule, not being online at the right time, etc) After multiple attempts to solve the issues myself, I decided the best thing I could do is find a coder co-founder. I did, and he is feeding back shorter, concerte, assignments to the outsourced team. We are also focused on iterating the release which means I hope to god we get rid of the godaddy landing page soon. This is to be followed by the primary component of the site and then we will assess from there. As far as motivating the team again, that is a far more difficult thing to do. I think the best thing for morale is to make progress (that way they can be done with this blasted projected). I can't justify throwing more money their way (nor do I have money to throw at them). When I was in Egypt I was even thinking about flying to India and head to their office to see if I could help there. It didn't happen. For those of you who are criticizing the way I handled the whole thing, fine, there are definitely areas where I made mistakes. If the whole thing collapses it was worth it for the learning experience, however, I am firmly committed to leveraging the outsourced team as much as I can via my co-founder. Thanks for all the feedback, Dale PS: This is the most blog hits I've ever had (which isn't saying much).