• Do you want to use a template, or is it a custom design?
• On what technology you want to build it?
• What backend functionality does the site offer?
• Any 3rd party integration like payment gateways?
• Do you have any reference sites?
• Do you also want to do SEO and content?

These factors are important to affect your cost. By deciding all the variables, the websites can cost anywhere between $0 for a personal website to $100,000+ for a custom enterprise site like Walmart. But by offshoring it to a country like India can easily cut-down your cost to build a website from 30-60% of the total with the same quality of work.

Why it is so much difficult to estimate the exact cost to build a website?

This a very obvious question that how much it will cost to build a website. The simple answer is uncertain “Scope of Work”. This is the most prerequisite thing before jumping on to any idea. It gives a clear and uncut projection of any plan. Scope of Work is a document on which both parties client (aka you) and an agency, vendor, or contractor (aka the outside team you’re working with) mutually agreed upon.

Recommended Reading: Estimating Website Development Cost

Factors affecting the cost to build a website

Tech Stack: Tech Stack means the set of technologies used to develop a web app. Basically, it is a combination of programming languages, frameworks, UI/UX solutions, databases, libraries and tools used by the software development team. For example, let’s say Facebook, it is a combination of coding frameworks and languages including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and ReactJS. This is Facebook’s ‘tech stack.’

The most popular tech stack is MEAN, MERN, LAMP rather than this any mix of following technologies can be used to make a good web app.

Front end Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, JQuery

Front end Frameworks: Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, React.js

Back end Technologies: Ruby on Rails (ROR), Node.js, PHP, Java, .Net, Python

Back end Frameworks: Express.js, ASP.Net, Spring, Django, Flask, CI, and Laravel, etc.

Database: MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle etc.

The cost of the project extensively depends on the tech stack you choose.

Domain Name and Website Hosting: Domain name is the address of your website that people type in the browser’s URL bar to visit your website. It is a unique internet-identity of your website which lets you use your company’s name with .com, .in, .uk, etc. Depending on the domain name you choose it will cost you around $5 to hundred or millions!!!

Hosting is a place where you hold your website. The price of website hosting depends upon the traffic and size of the site. It may vary from hundreds to thousands USD.

It not usually advised to go for free hosting as it will adversely affect the quality, loading time and speed of the site.

Design/Development: The actual cost of designer and developer is the most important in finding a fair estimate to build a website. If you hire a dedicated remote developer it will cost much lesser than going to any specific firm. The developer and will cost will you separately as they are working differently.

“The cost to hire a remote development team is much lesser than hiring them in-house especially from India.”

Content and SEO: Content is most essential of any website, without it the site is nothing less than a design template. Timely content updates and analytics result helps the organization to generate traffic from the right source. Commonly the price of content and the basic SEO are inclusive with the package. But prices can differ if you select a solo person or a team outside the contract.

Maintenance: Just like any other vehicle needs care and maintenance, your website also needs to keep in supervision for smooth working. Maintenance cost includes Domain name, Website Hosting, SSL certificates, tech support, etc. which cost may vary on the business type.

Recommended Reading: How much does Mobile App Development Cost?

To prevent the site from malware attacks, software and content update you should supervise it.

Why Hiring Software Developers from a Remote Company is Budget-friendly?

Hiring a software development team has too many cost factors like skills, experience, technology, and location. Likewise, if you have a small project, then you can simply hire part-time software developers with relevant experience in different fields and build your own small team. However, it will require some significant amount of time and energy, along with technical knowledge of the domain.

If you really have a high technical background, then hiring part-time software developers and quality assurance testers can reduce the cost to build a website to a large extent.

But if your software development project is big with lots of complexities, and then taking this move would prove costly, even if you have strong technical knowledge. A cost-effective way is to outsource your project to a remote software development company or else you can hire a fully dedicated team. It will eventually cut down the cost to build a website.

“The average rates of US developers is $60-$200 USD”

How EngineerBabu make dedicated hiring cost-effective?

EngineerBabu is a proven industry leader due to its ability to provide the correct solution to the required technology with a seamless business process. Statistically, hiring developers averages around 50%-70% of a business’s total expenditure, which is a huge amount when you consider income and turnover.

We at EngineerBabu provide the flexible business solution as we outsource our developers on a monthly or on an hourly basis that gives enterprises malleability and transparency within the whole development process.

Benefits of hiring a Website Developer from a Remote Company

• Flexibility: By hiring developers from a remote company, you can make changes at any stage of the project. The dedicated team allows doing modification and iterations during the entire operation and you can also keep an eye and can monitor the whole process from beginning to end.
• Agile approach: Agile methodology or agile model focus on the process adaptability and customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of working software product. Dedicated hiring from a remote company perfectly complements this approach by giving facility to iterations multiple times.        
• Free Choice: Remote company comes with lots of perk and of them is the free selection of developers. You can test the skills of the developers before hiring them. And not only this you can add and reduce the size of your team from time to time.
• Time-Saving: Well it’s a fact that when you outsource your project on a fixed cost it always misses the timeline. But if you hire a dedicated team you not only save the cost but also save the times as you can check the things and provides feedbacks timely.

Do you have any project in the back of your mind and not able to find out the exact website cost?

Get a free quote from us!!! Or you can connect with me over email: mayank@engineerbabu.com

Also Read:

• How to Setup an Offshore Development in India?
• 10 Essential Tips for Hiring Top Remote Employees
• Top 10 Tech Companies that allow to Work Remotely

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It’s very confusing to decide whether or not to go for an offshore development center when majority of the people believe that California is the place for entrepreneurs to begin at. Especially those working in technology, seeking funding and network connections.

But are you for some reason, not able to start in the Silicon Valley?

For any business, growth and scalability are essential. If you’re an entrepreneur in IT, always take this fact as a given that you might have to expand your team in the near future. And expanding your team is a costly yet inevitable venture. The challenges of finding economically feasible options in the Valley are well known in the industry.

An offshore development center in India is the right solution for you! It completely makes sense for you to explore the options for hiring the right group of software developers and experts

Is India a Right Destination for an Offshore Development Center?

Did you know that there are 25 unicorns in India so far,  where 15 have been from 2018 alone! The list includes Zomato, Shopclues, Udaan, Swiggy, OYO, Paytm Mall, Freshworks, Billdesk, Byju’s, Ola Cabs, PolicyBazaar and more.

It’s not a secret that Indian Developers work at a fraction of salary as compared to counterparts from other parts of the world. It’s a pretty huge country with a massive young population that has IT professionals and Computer Science majors in abundance.

More than 50% of the Indian developers are working on a yearly salary of less than $10,000.

We found some really interesting stats about the average annual salary of Developers in India:

(Source)

• 2.5 times lesser than that of developers all over the world,
• 5 times lesser than the average salary in the US,
• 4 times lesser than the average salary in the UK, and
• 3 times lesser than average salary in Germany.

How important is Customer Satisfaction in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Service Industry?

Imagine getting a cake baked for your Boss’s birthday and the baker messing up with what goes up on it. A bad code is exactly like that. You cannot risk writing a bad code. Web/app development requires immense attention in managing operations and resources. Every customer is very particular about what problems their IT solution/product would be catering to.

A lot of Indian IT firms keep customer satisfaction as their utmost priority. And it shows in the various practices they’ve implemented in their working culture. India hosts a huge pool of talented developers who offer budget friendly solutions. While looking for somebody from India, time-zones and communication will not become an issue. Along with tailor-made hiring process, you get 24*7 support and a highly productive team.

How efficient are Indian Developers?

The pricing is not the only deciding factor for hiring developers. Specially for setting up an offshore development center! If you want to hire, your first priority is somebody who knows how to write a good code.

There’s plenty of myths around Indian developers. But the truth is that the Indian job market for junior developer roles is incredibly crowded. They are no doubt paid lesser than the more experienced roles, but it makes them competitive for entry-level jobs.

What it takes is the right people. If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

–Paul Graham (Founder, Y Combinator)

A domain matters a lot when it comes to app/web development. Domain specialty increases the success rate exponentially. Teams holding expertise in developing social media websites will not deliver the same results for developing an e-commerce portal. Just look for the right team to outsource your project, and you will not be disappointed.

Introducing you to the commercial capital of Central India, Indore

The Silicon Valley of Central India

Everybody across the globe knows that Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of India. But Indore is catching up to the startup culture at its slow, but steady speed. It is still in its development stage. So if you are planning to set up an offshore development center in Indore, this is the best time for it.

When we think of Tier-2 cities as a potential market, Indore is a little different from all the others.

According to market research platform Tracxn, Indore has 461 tech startups! This list includes WittyFeed and ShopKirana.

The latter recently got a funding worth $10 million in Series B Funding. Prior to this round, the company had raised $2.1 Mn. The fresh funds will be used to expand the company’s presence in major Tier 2 cities.

As per India’s first ever ‘Ease of Living‘ index, Indore ranks 8th on the list of Top Ten Livable Cities. Indore also stood on the position 5th in identify and culture, 8th in health, 4th in economy and employment and 7th in power supply categories. (Source)

Good Connectivity, Educational and Employment Opportunities:

Access to a good startup ecosystem, talent, presence of venture capitalists and financial institutions are a must for making a city a Startup Capital. Indore has been witnessing a massive growth in every sector- be it educational or commercial.

The Tier-2 city has great road, rail and air connectivity. City boasts of its International Airport and Super Corridor: a 250 ft wide connecting the airport to the city. This road is a budding place for MNCs and companies like TCS and Infosys. Also, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is nearby. Impetus, Yash Technologies, CSC and Infobeans already have a presence in Indore.

The market is dynamic and almost all inexpensive to international brands already have ventured here, which is a plus point. Force Motors, M&M, Cipla, Lupin, Glenmark, Bridgestone, Volvo, Eicher Motors, and various other brands are operating in Indore.

Also, Indore is the only city in India that has both IIM and IIT. Along with that, there’s SGSITS, NMIMS and various reputed B-schools as well.

There’s literally next to no traffic jams!

Unlike Bangalore, Indore doesn’t face the issue of traffic clogged streets and roads. It will not take you more than an hour to travel from any given point of Indore to the other! And here’s an interesting video of one of our traffic police officers for you to enjoy!

t’s true. Indorians really do love their jobs! 

The inter-city travel is extremely convenient and affordable because of the iBus service. It’s a government funded service and all the buses are operated by a semi government agency AICTSL. In addition to that, several local transport startups like Ola Cabs, Uber, Jugnoo, etc also operate in the city.

How to set up an Offshore Development Center in Indore?

Building and managing a tech team is cumbersome. Founders usually end up wasting a lot of time, effort and money. Offshoring a development process simply means, relocating the part of business to some other place. There are several IT companies in India facilitating the same. However, as mentioned earlier, you have to be very careful when choosing one for your project.

EngineerBabu, Indore

EngineerBabu is an IT services company based in Indore, specialized in building MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for startups and enterprises. With our extremely innovative, dedicated & experienced team of 50+ geeks, we have developed robust & scalable solutions that help our clients to overcome their technical hurdles, and launch amazing products and services.

In the last 5 years, we have worked with more than 700 startups, and many of them have got massive funding (including latest $30MN in Bankopen). We are a profitable startup making a $70,000 monthly recurring revenue!

Two of our clients’ products have been selected in Y-combinator and MIT DeltaV. Also, Harvard Innovation Lab Startups are also a part of our portfolio.

Our clients include reputed brands like Samsung, YourStory, FrankGreen, IBM, BankOpen, Honeywell, Uber and HSBC bank, to name a few. Profitable startups like ZoomCar, Ondoor, Justride, MaalGaadi, Thrillophilia, Tooreest, Jokaamo, etc are some others. We have developed mobile apps for several other sectors like- Grocery Delivery, EduTech, Business Networking, FinTech, Service Providers, etc. Check out our complete portfolio here.

Pros of setting up an Offshore Development Center with EngineerBabu

We are very particular about thorough assessment of all candidates to take skills assessment tests. We do this to ensure that we’re hiring the best. And when you hire our development teams, they will be 100% dedicated to you and the project. It means that you’ll be in control of the team and product, till you get the desired results.

Just decide when to reduce or increase the size of the development team. All we’ll need from you is a 30 days notice. Our team’s schedule will always be in sync with your schedule. And each employee gets assessed for english language fluency for effective communication with you and your team. No more headache about the offshore development team not being aligned to your process and workflow!

We have been featured by YourStory for having a great culture! We don’t have any designated chairs for our employees, and neither does the boss!

A beautiful office where our employees are happy. Without worrying about anything, they just focus on creating the best products for you!

We provide every team member with laptops, fiber internet, and all the necessary tools and equipment to effectively do the job.

Also, in case you need to make a visit personally, we will be taking care of all the accommodation arrangements for you. We will take care of all the legal hassles. And you don’t have to worry about signing long term contracts with us. Everything is going to be mutually discussed and agreed upon!

Events and Initiatives at EngineerBabu:

We are known for running a conventional business in very unconventional ways. We keep hosting and organizing learning Saturdays and more such events for our employees on weekends regularly. They’re even open to outsiders with nominal or no charges.

Here’s the pictures of the most recent event hosted at EngineerBabu: “Startup Weekend Indore“.

So much happens in just 54 hours! It was a great concept that helped budding entrepreneurs to know the realities of the startup world before starting up. There were winners as young as students from Class XII! A lot of innovation and good ideas came out of the that lasted for just 54 hours- One weekend!

Testimonials from our clients:

Client: Buddy Travel App (London)

Do you have any prior experience working with offshore development centers based in India? Let us know how was your experience, and what could’ve made the process even smoother for you and your team.

We hope this was worth value to you in helping you decide about the pros and cons of an offshore development center in India. If there’s any further queries, you can drop a comment in the comment section below. You can also simply shoot an email to us at mayank@engineerbabu.com.

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