Disclaimer: I have met, and worked with a ton of brilliant people of Indian descent. I am in no way bigoted, and am not lumping people into a barrel because of their nationality. This is merely a list of things that piss me off about having to bid against "outsourced", or "overseas" development teams.

And we're off...

5) People who have dealt with Indian development teams in the past now think that they can get $5,000 worth of work for $50.

About a month ago, when I was struggling to keep the family fed, I got this lead on a job. I think he found me through a post to craigslist for a "simple" site. Sounded pretty promising from the start. The guy was "losing money with the site down", cuz it was "just hacked", and "needed it done in three days". Clearly this was a bigger package than the "simple site".

Occasionally, I browse through craigslist's Computer Gigs section, looking for a few bucks here-and-there. Lately, I noticed a lot of fairly decent, somewhat detailed, and interesting projects. Most of them do not have an email address to reply to (obscured, or otherwise), they point to this itkong site instead. There's no full URL, so one could assume that the original poster is trying to get you to use this site to bid on their project.