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No. That's the risk you take for cheaper devs. If they launch the same product in China or the Philippines, good luck.

• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  It can get worse than that. They can offer to sell your source code to your competitors. And print out the offer on your office printer during a visit to your facility. Yes, that really happened to us. Their code didn't work very well, either.
  • meadowy 5y ago
    Even better: Their code can also just not work at all and waste months of your time to the point that you are willing to spend more than $100k to fix everything by getting help from someone you know. Yes that really happened in real life to a business owner I know.
    • 908B64B197 5y ago
      > Yes that really happened in real life to a business owner I know. I generally advise consultants that lost a client to an outsourced shop to check back in 3-6 months.
      • meadowy 5y ago
        For some strange reason, it seems like the first choice of those cost-saving business owners usually tends to be bad devs and then the irony is that it costs them way more in the end.