Your Dev Team Is Not a Headcount
A dev team isn't a number you dial up and down. It's accumulated context in the people who stay. Churn, not headcount, decides whether anything ships.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read Blog · 83 posts
Founder POV
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read Most MVP Launches Get 'Viable' Backwards
Speed isn't the hard part of an MVP. The scope decision is. And "it's just an MVP, we'll rewrite it" is the lie behind the codebases we get hired to rescue.
Illia Hrybovskyi 7 min read MVP Staffing: The Cheapest Team Is the Most Expensive Decision You'll Make
An opinion piece arguing that the right way to staff an MVP is small, senior, and stable — not the cheap, churning, body-shop team most founders are sold.
Illia Hrybovskyi 8 min read Outsource App Development: Buy the Team Behind the Brochure
In outsource app development, the in-house-vs-offshore debate is theater. The real variable is continuity versus churn. Here's how to buy the right one.
Illia Hrybovskyi 8 min read Outsource Web Development: Buy the Team, Skip the Hourly Meter
Outsourcing web development works. But only when you buy team continuity, not the cheapest hourly rate. Turnover is what actually bankrupts the build.
Kseniia Cherepakhina 7 min read Outsourcing vs Outstaffing: A Plain-English Definition (and Why the Terms Confuse Everyone)
Outsourcing means you delegate the project. Outstaffing means you hire the people. One gives you a deliverable. The other gives you a team.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read Outsource Your Mobile App the Right Way: By the Team, By the Year
Outsourcing mobile app development is the right call for most companies. But only if you stop buying hourly-rate arbitrage and start buying continuity.
Illia Hrybovskyi 6 min read Staff Augmentation Is Only Worth It If They Stay
The "interchangeable headcount" version of staff augmentation is body shopping. Retention, not the hourly rate, decides whether it pays.
Kseniia Cherepakhina 6 min read Offshore Web Development: The Hourly Rate Is the Least Important Number on the Quote
Offshore web development isn't a labor-arbitrage play, and treating it like one is why it fails — the real variable is who stays on your codebase.
Dennis Vorobyov 8 min read Custom Mobile App Development: The 80% That Decides the Outcome
Custom mobile app development is sold as a launch. It's really a decade-long maintenance commitment. The native-vs-cross-platform debate is a decoy.
Dennis Vorobyov 7 min read Staff Augmentation vs Outsourcing: An Honest Comparison from 11 Years of Running Both
Staff augmentation and outsourcing are different models with different economics. After 11 years running both, here's what actually matters.
Dennis Vorobyov 8 min read