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by epc 3666 days ago
Speaking for myself, I've been burned repeatedly by remote labor and remote teams. Any theoretical cost savings were squandered by the increased amount of time overhead in project management and "do over" work. I'm now advising a startup which had to start from scratch on its MVP a second time because the first team…simply walked away after six months of work.

I'm sure there's blame to be spread around, but personally after nearly a decade of trying to use remote labor for coding, I won't do it again if it's my money at stake.

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You mean remote employees, or outsourcing development to an overseas team for a specific project?
Both.