Mobile app development has become a crucial part of businesses in today’s digital world. From finance, healthcare, education, and entertainment, companies across all industries are investing in mobile app development to expand their reach and increase their revenues.
However, developing a mobile app requires skilled professionals, and finding the right team that fits your budget can be challenging. Offshore teams that are cheap often lack proper communication and have a historical tendency to present low-quality work. Domestic teams, on the other hand, usually provide the best quality of work and value clear communication with their clients. You can expect domestic developers to have a greater understanding of the client’s requirements and long-term vision. However, their services come with the drawback of higher prices.
But what if I told you that you would not have to choose between the two options and better yet you can have the best of both worlds? The answer is a hybrid team comprising of domestic and offshore developers.
In this article, we’ll discuss the benefits of such a dream matchup for mobile app development, and explain why this is the future for all startups in the tech world.
Cost-Effective Solution
Hiring a team of domestic developers can be costly, especially if you’re looking for professionals with the right skills and experience.
The cost to hire a developer in the U.S. can vary widely depending on their skill level and experience. On average, a mid-level developer in the U.S. can cost anywhere from $75,000 to $125,000 per year, while a senior developer can cost upwards of $150,000 per year or more.
On the other hand, offshore developers are often significantly less expensive while being just as educated and experienced. Benefiting from the exchange rate and the cost of living in foreign countries, hiring an entire offshore team can be the equivalent of hiring one developer in the U.S.
By forming a hybrid team, the offshore developers can produce codes for the project, while the domestic team member serves as the quality assurance manager, ensuring the project is of the highest quality at an affordable price.
Access to a Larger Talent Pool
When you hire a hybrid team, you have access to a larger talent pool. Domestic developers may have specific skills that offshore developers lack, and vice versa. In projects that require a level of specificity such as niche fintech projects, certain countries like Croatia may come to the table with more experiences and knowledge due to the recent boom in startup and tech demands in their country.
By forming a hybrid team, you can create a team with a diverse range of skills and expertise, allowing you to handle complex app development projects with ease.
Valere, for example, has been leveraging its fintech experts in Croatia to assist fintech clients in overcoming their challenges. Groth greatly benefited from our hybrid approach, which involved both domestic UX/UI designers and offshore fintech experts. This allowed the application to be completed in record-breaking time and secure additional funding.
Increased Flexibility
A hybrid team offers increased flexibility when it comes to project management. Domestic developers work during business hours, while offshore developers can work during their respective time zones. A firm with locations in Asia, Europe, South East Asia, South America, and the U.S. will be able to provide a 24-hour service for your project. This means that your project can be worked on around the clock, increasing productivity and speeding up the development process significantly.
Buffer, a social media management platform, has a fully distributed team with employees working from 15 different countries around the world. This allows for higher employee retention, as employees can work from anywhere in the world. Additionally, it effectively turns Buffer’s workforce into a 24-hour service powerhouse, providing support to clients that beat their competitors.
Faster Time to Market
With an increased sense of flexibility means the development process can be sped up, reducing the time to market. Domestic developers can work on critical aspects of the project while offshore developers handle other tasks, resulting in a faster turnaround time that gives you a competitive edge.
With a hybrid team, developers in different time zones can work on the same project, ensuring that projects are completed faster, and round-the-clock. This can be particularly beneficial for app development projects that require tight deadlines.
Improved Communication
One of the biggest challenges of offshore development is communication. Language barriers and time zone differences can make it difficult to communicate effectively. However, by forming a hybrid team, you can overcome these challenges. Domestic developers can act as a bridge between the offshore team and the client, ensuring effective communication and reducing the risk of misunderstandings.
Take Valere, for example. On each of our projects, our U.S. discovery lead and project manager work alongside our clients to understand their requirements and vision. We hold weekly sync-ups and daily asynchronous updates to ensure our clients have a transparent understanding of every step of the development process, ensuring the quality of our hybrid teams remains elite.
Getting the Best of Both Worlds with Valere
Forming a hybrid team comprising of domestic and offshore developers can be highly beneficial for mobile app development. It offers a cost-effective solution, access to a larger talent pool, increased flexibility, improved communication, and faster time to market. By taking advantage of these benefits, your project is guaranteed to be able to reduce its development cost and triple the development output.
Valere operates under this best-of-both-worlds model, with five offices around the world, with each country having its own specialty. The U.S.A. office is responsible for Project Management, UX/UI, and Product Ownership. The Peru office focuses on Metaverse & AR/VR/MR, while Uruguay specializes in Healthcare and EdTech. India is responsible for Sports and Fitness, and Croatia leads in FinTech and Web 3.0 projects. To ensure effective communication and collaboration, our teams work in dedicated offices where they can work together face-to-face on projects. This approach creates true team rapport and feedback, ensuring that our teams thrive and succeed. With our hybrid team model, you can be sure that your project won’t suffer from poor collaboration or low-quality work.
As an award-winning software development firm with a proven track record of building 300 successful applications and software for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Our hybrid approach has led us to achieve the top 1% recognition on Upwork amongst numerous other awards such as being recognized as the best App Developers in the USA in 2022. Our team of expert software developers is well-equipped to handle front-end and back-end work, full-stack development, UI/UX design, or help you relaunch your app. We can quickly deploy our team to help move things forward in your product roadmap or iterate on new product ideas.
Discover the endless possibilities of mobile app development with Valere’s hybrid team. Join the ranks of successful startups and Fortune 500 companies that have experienced the best of both worlds with our top-notch quality and affordable pricing. Don’t wait, speak with us today and let’s bring your app development dream to life!
Valere is an award-winning software development agency that has built over 300 top-rated applications for startups and Fortune 500 companies in all verticals like healthcare, finance, sports, fitness, education, and more. Their apps have been featured by the New York Times, and have been consistently recognized as Apple App Store’s top featured apps, TechRadar, and Google Play Store’s top featured apps! Schedule a call with us today to learn how we can help your team create the perfect software or application that can Accelerate Your Business Goals!
