[madmax108]

I am NOT a formal app developer myself, though I do help out a friend who owns an app dev firm (mainly with testing n design critiquing). This is how he gets work done:

He has a 3 person team who actually work fulltime with the company. 2 of them are coders and one of them is on for business development/handling the management aspects.

The coding is done inhouse, while the design is generally outsourced. (I'm from India, and getting decent design work done without blowing a hole in your pocket isn't really a big issue). The designer is paid on a per-project basis i.e as per the work.

He currently has a few apps on the app store, and he's just about reached break even on his initial investment (They started barely 6-7 months ago, so it's still early ).

... and yes, the whole team is super happy! Mostly coz they left their day jobs working with .NET (yeah, for real! :P) to work on what they love!:)