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Building Your Product on Top of an Existing Prototype — Are You Crazy?

Nowadays you hear it so often: We are moving our business online. What it actually means is that you are dealing with a software service platform.

Software is a complex system that enables you to open your Internet browser and accomplish a certain task, while someone charges you for using the system or maybe gives you the access for free.

As soon as you, as the owner of the software or of the software concept in the making, have decided to provide this service, you have to build it from scratch, maybe with the help of other 3rd party software and mini-services.

Here are important data points for you to consider before opting to outsource it to someone else, instead of doing it through your internal development team: You might have in mind building a sophisticated, scalable and beautifully looking product that will face millions of happy users.