how wlcm compares
The honest comparison.
Freelancers, offshore shops, in-house hires, or a senior studio — every route can work. Here’s the trade-off math we’d share with a friend.
Freelancers
- Lowest hourly cost and quick to start
- One person = one skill set; design, backend, QA, and PM rarely come together
- Availability and continuity are the risk — your product outlives the engagement
- Good for: small, well-defined tasks
Offshore dev shops
- Attractive rates and big teams
- Quality varies wildly; you often discover it at handoff
- Sub-contracting and rotation mean the team that starts is rarely the team that finishes
- Good for: cost-driven builds with heavy internal oversight
In-house team
- Maximum control and context
- $500K+/yr for a small senior team, plus months of hiring — before a line of code
- Hard to right-size: too few skills early, too much payroll between pushes
- Good for: post-product-market-fit scale
WLCM
- A complete senior team — design, engineering, PM, QA — from day one
- No sub-contracting, ever; you work with us, including our founder
- Scales up or down as your needs evolve; partners for the product’s lifetime
- Good for: funded startups and growth-stage companies that need it built right
When we’re not the right fit — a pure-cost build, a one-week task, a team you only need for staffing — we’ll say so on the first call and point you somewhere better. Selectivity works both ways.
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With its simplicity, it helps you do what you do more easily. With its beauty, it makes you feel like you’re someplace special. And with its voice, it lets you know you belong.
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