Building a Mobile app from scratch: Dedicated Developers v/s Freelancers

Nandita drew her first landscape when she was two years old. 23 years later, love for colors made Nandita take up art as a profession. Now she is a digital illustrator, fine artist & graphic designer. Growing up in Mumbai, she was able to pursue her passion for the arts and designing and is currently working as a freelance artist. 

Many girls like Nandita today  got the opportunity to come out of Their Restrictions, that don’t allow them to work Outside. The Study Of Socio Economic Perspectives Of Educated Unemployed Women  And Its Impact On Their Life The rate went up to a High of 19.8 per cent in 2017-18 from 10.3 per cent in 2011-12. For educated women in rural settings, -unemployment may be reduced.

 India's unemployment rate recovers to pre-Covid level of 6.9% in February: since India became second largest    -“Freelancing hub” of the world after the US. Going by PayPal estimates, India has close to 1.5 crore freelancers — many of them working on home-generated projects with others dealing with clients (work providers) from the US, Europe and Australia.  With that new upcoming debate over dedicated developers v/s freelancers has got the wind high. New Question takes a place  as an entrepreneur or a development manager decide between freelance app development team vs. Field expert software development teams? Dedicated development team were more and more popular, but there are lots of questions and doubts around this model.

“Development teams dedicated to the “lean” outsourcing model for those who need to develop an offshore model as well as being part of the internal team.

Now let’s talk about development agencies

When you hire a professional and reputed mobile app development agency there you have a possibility to hire a team of professionals that have been working together for a while. Compared to the situation with freelancers where you have to deal with people working remotely in different time zones, here we have a crew of people that can do the job very efficiently, a crew that is experienced and strong all-round.

The reason for this is the fact that this team of people worked together for some longer period of time, their communication is on a high level since they share a working space, they aid each other and very importantly, they know each other. Development companies also maintain a strong team spirit and cultural barriers are smaller than when working with freelancers. A company or an agency will add various resources to your project like back-end programmers, front-end programmers, QA experts, designers, etc. This can mean very much to you since the development company will professionally solve many problems in the process that otherwise you would have to deal with.

Now let’s talk about Freelancer

Advantages of working with freelancers are well-known and explored by anybody who has even a small outsourcing experience. Freelancers don’t work under any rules and regulations. They work independently and as such have no set structure. Therefore, sometime they lack any clear methodology to complete daily tasks and satisfy demands, and feedback from clients. But then benefits are also overwhelmed like.., The presumably higher level of control over a team’s everyday tasks and progression which takes accurate, effective and accountable everyday working. Specifically gives Ability to hand pick those who will be working on the project for accurate working. Freelancers cost less due to the absence of the vendor’s overhead even give money as per their working. Availability of some very rare skills in some areas. Availability of some very rare skills in some areas.

For e.g., You got a rare talent for specific working which boost your company's efficiency. However, there are many issues with this collaborative model. All those disadvantages are historically considered as a lesser evil simply because of the lack of other options. Below, you’ll find the list of the issues related to the collaboration with freelance developers and an explanation of how dedicated teams are solving those challenges. 

To sum up, can say Both models are effective, well researched, trusted, provided as a reliable source.  It seems to us that the dedicated development teams need more exposure since this outsourcing approach helps to avoid all disadvantages related to freelance development, while freelance also provide scope to find specific better working even by reducing demerits of dedicated developers.Working together with the experienced software company will certainly increase the chances for startups and reduce unemployment.