edit: Also my plan isn't to bring cash to my town. My plan is to give power the real hackers of my town. Companies charge about $100/h and pay about $10-$15/h back to the developer. Money is already pouring in - it just goes the wrong way...
edit2: Yes. Romaina is a broken country. Cluj is not like that. I would have moved a long time ago if that would not be the case. Cluj is actually the only city in Romania that is growing in population.
> Companies charge about $100/h and pay about $10-$15/h back to the developer.
I usually rent an office 10-15 minutes from where I live so I can walk to work. No need to get in traffic or find a parking place and blame the system...
If you don't like Cluj then why didn't you move to Berlin, London, Amsterdam?
> But I wish that all those companies seeing 10% of cost of a London team will have backbones in a years time.
To be fair, it's not a given that even London teams will have backbones in a year's time, given current property-price pressures and the easy access to global markets that London grants to local talent.
In that sense, the cold calculation is that you can pay £100 and have a 80% chance to have a backbone next year, or you can pay £10 and have a 50% chance; is that 30% extra worth 90% of costs to you? It's a legitimate question, and the answer might not be the same for every company.
Managing teams across distance and cultures is hard and requires commitment - commitment that seems to vanish when hard things happen - remember when hiring programmers in Ukraine was a no-brainer? How many development teams got pink-slipped and how many got airlifted out with their families? Which one is showing the commitment ?
I applaud andrei512 for his entrepreneurial edge and desire to bring some of the world's cash to his home town.
But I wish that all those companies seeing 10% of cost of a London team will have backbones in a years time. I doubt they will. Backbones are expensive and these guys are looking for cheap.