Hello,
This is a very general, non technical question but you must be the people who can give the best advice.
We have been business partners since 2012 but we don’t have an in-house developer. We can handle a few screen customisations but apart from that we outsource our development.
In the past we did have developers in-house but we found that we did not have the experience to manage the developers properly. Projects took much longer than expected and went way over budget, which we could not recover. Using subcontractors is convenient for us as we don’t have those issues.
However, we are finding that we are often being asked to provide web api integrations for clients.
This is something that I think we could do in-house because API development is a much more focused area with particular skill sets and the jobs are fairly similar meaning that we can gain good experience in a short period of time.
Am I right in this assessment ? Is it a safe bet to focus just on API’s?
Thanks
James