We are a mobile development agency based in India I understand there are plenty of us on various platforms.
How do we work on changing customer's perspective?
Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
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#3Number one thing: highlight the people in your team. Problem with working with Indian agencies is that the programmers are hidden behind the project managers. That is not effective way of working in iterative work.
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#4India is a big place. To me that is like saying, "what are your views on development agencies based in the world?"
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#5My view is that its hard to form a generalised opinion on a entire sector. Especially when that sector is in a country with 1.3 billion people.
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#6I have experienced working with two different Indian development teams and both of my experiences were characterized the same:
1) Over-communication to a fault
2) Low code quality
I don't know how can you change my perspective, but I would suggest not trying to change the perspective of Indian agencies as a whole - but rather why you are different than the stereotypical Indian agency.
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#7Which customers? What perspective? What platforms?
You'll need to be clearer in what you're asking. Are you asking for opinions, or advice?
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#81. For the most part terrible code.
2. Only interested in payment, never project
3. Never listen when you tell them you don't want their services.
I cannot for the life of me see why this is on the front page of HN tbh
Re: Ask HN: What are your views on India based development agencies?
#9I have experienced working with two different Indian development teams and both of my experiences were characterized the same: 1) Over-communication to a fault 2) Low code quality I don't know how can you change my perspective, but I would suggest not trying to change the perspective of Indian agencies as a whole - but rather why you are different than the stereotypical Indian agency.
What do you mean by over communication? Do you mean that essential communication is repeated without additional effect? Or that unnecessary details are relayed?
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#10India is a big place. To me that is like saying, "what are your views on development agencies based in the world?"
To a lot of other people it is a clearly defined region, it might be a big country. But most customers have a very clear idea when you say "Agencies from India".