This is an anonymous post written by a good friend of mine who recently outsourced a very large web project to a team of developers in India. Throughout the project, I was deeply fascinated by the concept. He was kind enough to take the time out of his busy day to write an article about his experience. Over the past year I have been working on developing a fairly large scale web project, not an Amazon, Twitter, Facebook or eBay caliber project, but with good planning and a little luck it could possibly attract one of these web stars to acquire our site later. I have known Adam for several years and we have become friends and are a good source of advice and guidance to each other in entrepreneurial decisions and experiences. Please understand that it is very difficult to summarize an 11-month project like this in a single blog post, but I will do my best to hit the key points at the cost of sacrificing some key data. The key data I won't include is who I am. , what is my site, who I used for outsourcing and who is my business partner. I'm doing it this way for several reasons, but mainly to simplify things for this article and we have some potential partnerships we're working on and we'll be making significant changes to our site if they come to fruition, so we don't want to push or create additional buzz at the moment. Also, I will be painfully honest at times and I don't want to insult or hurt anyone. It seems obvious, even crazy, to mention this, but the first thing you need is a viable project to outsource, in my case it was programming for a fairly complicated website. Protect yourself, but remember that NDAs and CAs are only as good as the people who sign them. If someone wants to break the contract, are you before... middle of paper...... a trait of those who don't they don't speak English as their native language. What was most frustrating was that until we realized this they simply skipped or ignored our detailed explanations, often if there was an important detail in the second sentence it was often missed . Overall, I enjoyed the experience and learned more than I could have imagined. Sometimes I had regrets and if I could go back, I would do things differently, but I would still outsource and probably choose the same company. We saved a small fortune, which was the difference between creating this site or not. We've all heard stories of outsourcing, although it's rare to meet someone who's actually done it. I hope my brief overview has helped clear up some misconceptions and share some of my hard-learned lessons when it comes to outsourcing so you can decide if it's the right path to take in the future..