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by deltasquare4 1074 days ago
As someone who runs a niche dev shop in India (not the kind that you describe though), I have found that new work has been hard to come by since last 6 months, especially for services like ours that are on the premium end. Even the general consensus around my network is the same.

The Indian dev "market" was pretty much commoditized during the pandemic, which prompted us to move our focus away to niche that could still pay premium for high skills and outcomes. It seems that rest of the market hasn't changed much even in this time. I can't speak for the job seekers, but the number of job applicants applying to us have risen sharply over last 2 months or so.
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ciguy 1074 days ago
That makes sense. Working with developers in India has always been frustrating to me. There is so much talent and potential there but it just gets drowned out by the noise of so many scams and low quality/effort grifters that it is hard to justify the time needed to find someone who can actually deliver. I am sure on your side it's frustrating as well trying to break through and be seen for the high quality work you do.
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deltasquare4 1074 days ago
It is. It creates two "problems" - our quality and price both are directly compared to the other shops, and the quality part is not always immediately visible.
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mousetree 1074 days ago
I'm curious to know what a "niche" dev shop is? Do you focus only on some industry vertical? Specific technology?
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deltasquare4 1074 days ago
Well, we focus on building high-traffic/large-scale apps. The tech stack does not matter. Our skills are easier to demonstrate if customers have existing performance/design bottlenecks. Not something that other dev shops can claim to do easily.
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mousetree 1072 days ago
Very interesting! I would have expected companies with high-traffic/large-scale apps have sufficient in-house expertise to solve for performance/design bottlenecks? Have you observed that isn't the case?
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pighive 1074 days ago
https://www.rmenpara.com is 404!
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moneywoes 1071 days ago
as someone interested on business what was that pivot like, moving to a specific technology? how did your icp change?
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