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Updated August 22, 2026
What are the most common questions about hiring a software development company?
The five that come up most: what it costs (an MVP is $15,000–$40,000 through an Indian agency, a mobile app $20,000–$70,000, a SaaS platform $35,000–$120,000), what engineers cost per hour ($22–$45 for mid-level to senior from India against $110–$200 in the US or Western Europe), whether to use an agency, a freelancer, or hire in-house (agency for outcomes, freelancer for specified tasks you can review, in-house for permanent core work), what maintenance costs (15–20% of build cost per year), and how to tell a good vendor from a bad one — for which the single most revealing question is what went wrong on a recent project.
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124 questions
Hiring, rates, and roles
What engineers cost, how fast they start, and how the engagement works.
Hire React Developers
- How much does it cost to hire a React developer in India?
- How quickly can a React developer start?
- Can the developer work in our timezone?
- Do we own the code the developer writes?
- What if the developer is not a good fit?
- Do you provide React developers for short projects?
- Can React developers also handle the backend?
Hire Next.js Developers
- How much does it cost to hire a Next.js developer?
- Can you migrate our Pages Router app to the App Router?
- Do your Next.js developers handle SEO as well?
- Can you self-host Next.js instead of using Vercel?
- How quickly can a Next.js developer join our team?
- Do you work with our existing designers and product team?
- What Next.js version do you build on?
Hire Node.js Developers
- How much does it cost to hire a Node.js developer in India?
- Do you use Express, Fastify, or NestJS?
- Can Node.js handle high traffic?
- Can your Node.js developers work with our existing backend?
- Do you write tests for backend code?
- Can the same engineer handle DevOps and deployment?
- What databases do your Node.js developers work with?
Hire React Native Developers
- How much does it cost to hire a React Native developer in India?
- Can one React Native developer handle both iOS and Android?
- Do you handle App Store and Play Store submission?
- Is React Native still a good choice in 2026?
- Can you take over an existing React Native app?
- Do you build with Expo or bare React Native?
- How do you test on real devices?
103 questions
Cost and budgets
What things cost to build, what changes the number, and what they cost to run.
85 questions
Choosing how to build
Agency, freelancer, in-house, offshore — and how to evaluate any of them.
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