There is a lot of buzz recently for outsourcing software development (thank you Guy Kawasaki), and it still bothers me somewhat. At one point someone made the o

There is a lot of buzz recently for outsourcing software development (thank you Guy Kawasaki), and it still bothers me somewhat. At one point someone made the observation that outsourcing tech is fine as long as tech isn't supposed to be your core speciality. I can't imagine outsourcing the foundation of a project that I might have to work on for years to come. Maybe this is a bit overly romantic, and it would be more efficient to outsource the initial version, and build a custom one if and only if interest emerges. Much of my discomfort about the outsourcing stems from the fact that these people are charging 5-10k and taking 4-8 weeks to build something really unspectacular. Then again, its easier to build a slick technology demo than to create a reliable tool...