There are a lot of people disagreeing, but you have to realize what the goal is here. The goal is as cheap as possible, and you should have a mediocre product o

There are a lot of people disagreeing, but you have to realize what the goal is here. The goal is as cheap as possible, and you should have a mediocre product out of that. For this scenario, the advice given is perfect. Obviously the advice doesn't work for many other scenarios. In other words, you should very rarely be looking to hire a developer out of India for $5/hour, but if you are, hold his hand and he can't mess it up too terribly badly.